JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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All Of The Above
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Creek
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Cherokee
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation (Teaching with Historic Places) This lesson is part of the National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) program. The caravan was ready to move out. The wagons were lined up.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1838, during the Trail of Tears, hundreds of Cherokee traveled north along Crawfish Road in Georgia (LaFayette Road, part of today’s Chickamauga Battlefield) to one of the deportation camps at Ross’s Landing (downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee).
Detailed explanation-3: -Originally located in the southeastern United States in parts of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, the Cherokee Nation was forced to relocate to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in 1838 after gold was discovered in our homelands.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Georgia Cherokee’s primary area of residence is in North Georgia, north of the Chattahoochee River, which comprises the original area occupied by their Cherokee ancestors prior to the forced removal of many of their kinsmen in 1838, known as the infamous Trail of Tears.
Detailed explanation-5: -Muscogee and Cherokee tribes of Georgia.