JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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In 1830, authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West.
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To manage Indian removal to western lands, Congress approved the creation of a new government agency
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Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which the laws of Georgia had no force
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The Cherokee were forced to march 800 miles to the Indian Territory
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.