JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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Trail of Tears
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Tears of the trail
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Trail of timber
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None of the above
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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: -During the harsh winter of 1838-1839 over 15, 000 Cherokee Indians passed through southern Illinois on their Trail of Tears. Many hundreds perished from cold and hunger on this long and tortuous trek from their homeland near the Smokey Mountains to new government-designated lands in eastern Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the 1830s the United States government forcibly removed the southeastern Native Americans from their homelands and relocated them on lands in Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma). This tragic event is referred to as the Trail of Tears.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most of the Cherokee involved in the Trail of Tears took the northern route, marked in pink on the map. This route ran from southeastern Tennessee northwestward across the state through Nashville and then through Hopkinsville, Kentucky; what is now Anna, Illinois; and Jackson, Missouri.