The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners. They have been dragged from their homes and encamped at the forts and military places, all over the nation ..... The propert[ies] of many [have] been taken and sold before their eyes for almost nothing. This quotation from an eyewitness on the Trial of Tears describes events resulting from the .....

PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON

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“The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners. They have been dragged from their homes and encamped at the forts and military places, all over the nation ____ The propert[ies] of many [have] been taken and sold before their eyes for almost nothing.” This quotation from an eyewitness on the “Trial of Tears” describes events resulting from the ____

A	Intolerable Acts
B	Lewis and Clark Expedition
C	Quartering Act
D	Indian removal Act

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The first major step to relocate American Indians came when Congress passed, and President Andrew Jackson signed, the Indian Removal Act of May 28, 1830.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer. The “Trail of Tears” refers specifically to Cherokee removal in the first half of the 19th century, when about 16, 000 Cherokees were forcibly relocated from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) west of the Mississippi.

Detailed explanation-3: -Henry Clay, a leading congressman, played a crucial role in brokering a two-part solution known as the Missouri Compromise. First, Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state, but would be balanced by the admission of Maine, a free state, that had long wanted to be separated from Massachusetts.

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USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON