JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The men, leaders, and chiefs
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The sick, elderly, children, and mothers with babies
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Either A or B
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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: -About 200 years ago the Cherokee Indians were one tribe, or “Indian Nation” that lived in the southeast part of what is now the United States. During the 1830’s and 1840’s, the period covered by the Indian Removal Act, many Cherokees were moved west to a territory that is now the State of Oklahoma.
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: -Cherokee authorities estimate that 6, 000 men, women, and children die on the 1, 200-mile march called the Trail of Tears. Other Cherokee escape to North Carolina, where they elude capture and forced removal.