JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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lack of food
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lack of clothing
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not enough soldiers
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diseases
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Trail of Tears. In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the “Trail of Tears, ” because of its devastating effects.
Detailed explanation-2: -Severe exposure, starvation and disease ravaged tribes during their forced migration to present-day Oklahoma. Severe exposure, starvation and disease ravaged tribes during their forced migration to present-day Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation during the 1830s of Indigenous peoples of the Southeast region of the United States (including the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among others) to the so-called Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
Detailed explanation-4: -When Native Americans were forced off of their land and onto the “Trail of Tears, ” they left territory that was closest to which of these features? Appalachian Mountains.