JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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The Five Tribe Indians were living in the Louisiana Purchase lands before they were forced from their homes
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The Indians original homelands were located within the new Louisiana Purchase lands
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The Louisiana Purchase lands were where American Indians historically did most of their hunting
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The Five Tribe Indians were forced to go and live on the Louisiana Purchase lands
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is the connection between the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes and the territory acquired in the Louisiana purchase? The five tribes were forced to live on the Louisiana Purchase lands. During the 1930s, the Five Civilized Tribes were removed from their ancestral homelands.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Five Civilized Tribes They commanded more than 40, 000 square miles in the southern Appalachians by 1650 with a population estimated at 22, 500. They lived in permanent villages near broad river bottoms suitable for agriculture. They were a single tribe composed of seven clans.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term “Trail of Tears” refers to the difficult journeys that the Five Tribes took during their forced removal from the southeast during the 1830s and 1840s. The Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole were all marched out of their ancestral lands to Indian Territory, or present Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-4: -By the end of Jackson’s Presidency, his administration had negotiated almost 70 removal treaties. These led to the relocation of nearly 50, 000 eastern Indians to the Indian Territory-what later became eastern Oklahoma.