JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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She explains the experience through the eyes of her grandmother.
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She highlighted how the Muskogee Tribe was ripped from their happy life and were forced to endure much pain and suffering due to the migration.
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She describes the details of the council meetings where they prepared a plan for the migration
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She describes how the her people escaped captivity and lived in the mountains.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy is a 2006 documentary by Rich-Heape Films. It presents the history of the forcible removal and relocation of Cherokee people from southeastern states of the United States to territories west of the Mississippi River, particularly to the Indian Territory in the future Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-3: -“The love of possession is a disease with them; they take tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away.”
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.