JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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Cold and disease
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Heat and disease
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Cold and frost bite
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Heat and lack of water
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Detailed explanation-1: -As many as 4, 000 died of disease, starvation and exposure during their detention and forced migration through nine states that became known as the “Trail of Tears.”
Detailed explanation-2: -In addition to deliberate killings and wars, Native Americans died in massive numbers from infections endemic among Europeans. Much of this was associated with respiratory tract infections, including smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, and influenza (1, 2).
Detailed explanation-3: -Smallpox was the disease brought by Europeans that was most destructive to the Native Americans, both in terms of morbidity and mortality. The first well-documented smallpox epidemic in the Americas began in Hispaniola in late 1518 and soon spread to Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -Diseases such as treponemiasis and tuberculosis were already present in the New World, along with diseases such as tularemia, giardia, rabies, amebic dysentery, hepatitis, herpes, pertussis, and poliomyelitis, although the prevalence of almost all of these was probably low in any given group.