JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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The people asked him to please let them leave later in the year after the worst heat had passed but he would not agree to their request.
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Scott gave an order to his men to treat the Cherokee with care and if any were sick to let a relative stay with them and give them food and supplies for recovery.
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He allowed the very sick and elderly to ride horses for part of the way.
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Scott also wrote a letter to the Cherokee saying that if they did not fight, he would ensure they were treated well along the travel to their “new homes.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -On December 29, 1835, U.S. government officials and about 500 Cherokee Indians claiming to represent their 16, 000-member tribe, met at New Echota, Georgia, and signed a treaty. The agreement led to the forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.