JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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Tennessee
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North Carolina
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Georgia
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Alabama
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Detailed explanation-1: -Monroe was pressured by the state of Georgia to make his statement because gold had been discovered on Cherokee land in Northwest Georgia and the state of Georgia wanted to claim it.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1838 and 1839 U.S. troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-3: -Our Journey Starting in the summer of 1838, Cherokees were rounded up and forced from their homes in Georgia, Tennessee and other southeastern states to the tribe’s current capital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, as part of the federal Indian Removal Act.
Detailed explanation-4: -State leaders began to insist that Indian nations were not really sovereign and that they occupied land rightfully owned by the states. Georgia officials increasingly demanded that the federal government fulfill its 1802 agreement by removing the Creek and Cherokee nations.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Trail of Tears. 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.