JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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The Cherokee’s trail disappeared after they left.
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The Cherokee suffered and many died when they had to leave their homeland.
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The Cherokee traveled mainly by water.
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The Cherokee left a trail so other Native Americans could find them.
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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: -In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nunna daul Tsuny-“the trail where they cried.” The Indian Removal Act was spawned by the rapidly expanding population of new settlers which created tensions with the American Indian tribes.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Indian Removal Act of 1830, the impetus for the Trail of Tears, targeted particularly the Five Civilized Tribes in the Southeast. As authorized by the Indian Removal Act, the Federal Government negotiated treaties aimed at clearing Indian-occupied land for white settlers.
Detailed explanation-4: -The path the Cherokee took west has been called the Cherokee Trail of Tears due to the hardships they faced and the fact that over 4, 000 Cherokee died during the journey.