JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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Christopher Columbus attacked the Cherokee in 1492
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A gold rush brought many Americans into Cherokee land.‘
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The Creek and Cherokee began moving to Atlanta.
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The vice president interrupted President Jackson’s nap.
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Detailed explanation-1: -All the way from where Dahlonega now stands to Nuckollsville [Auraria] there were men panning out of the branches and making holes in the hillsides. The sudden influx of miners into the Cherokee Nation was known even at the time as the Great Intrusion.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1828, European-Americans discovered gold in the Appalacian Mountains of Georgia. This land was part of the Cherokee Nation. Members of the Nation first discovered this gold in the early 1700s and it remained virtually untouched for 100 years. “The news got abroad, and such excitement you never saw.
Detailed explanation-3: -People from the neighboring state of Georgia wanted that gold. Georgia passed laws that took away Cherokee rights and started giving away Cherokee land to Georgians.
Detailed explanation-4: -The discovery of gold was one of the major reasons behind Cherokee Removal, in which the state of Georgia expelled Cherokees from their ancestral lands in 1838. Formally established in 1833, Dahlonega replaced Auraria as the Lumpkin County seat.