JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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the Cherokee and other tribes were forced off of their land even though the Supreme Court said they had a right to stay
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the Creek were demolished in the War of 1812 and had to give up all of their homeland
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gold was discovered in California causing people to rush westward
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the Seminoles were pushed out of Florida when the Adams-Onis Treaty took place
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian Territory” across the Mississippi River.