JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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The trail was under water
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It stands for the loss of land
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So many died along the way due to starvation exposure and disease
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There was much fighting and conflict along the way
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Cherokee people called this journey the “Trail of Tears, ” because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4, 000 out of 15, 000 of the Cherokees died.
Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1830 and 1850, about 100, 000 American Indians living between Michigan, Louisiana, and Florida moved west after the U.S. government coerced treaties or used the U.S. Army against those resisting. Many were treated brutally. An estimated 3, 500 Creeks died in Alabama and on their westward journey.
Detailed explanation-3: -/ðə ˌtreɪl əv ˈtɪəz/ /ðə ˌtreɪl əv ˈtɪrz/ the name given to the long journey from Georgia to Oklahoma made in 1838 by the Cherokee and other native North American nations. They were being forced by the US government to move to the Indian Territory, and thousands died on the way.
Detailed explanation-4: -They made the journey to Indian Territory on foot (some “bound in chains and marched double file, ” one historian writes), and without any food, supplies or other help from the government. Thousands of people died along the way. It was, one Choctaw leader told an Alabama newspaper, a “trail of tears and death.”