JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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Cherokee escaped
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The Trail of Tears
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number of deaths on the trail
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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: -The removal of the Cherokee began in 1838 under the leadership of General Winfield Scott who, with 7, 000 soldiers and members of various State militias, escorted the Cherokee and other Indians west.
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: -On December 29, 1835, U.S. government officials and about 500 Cherokee Indians claiming to represent their 16, 000-member tribe, met at New Echota, Georgia, and signed a treaty. The agreement led to the forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.