JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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In the mid-1800s, thousands of Native Americans were forced to leave their land behind and travel west.
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On the Trail of Tears, new traditions and customs arose that have since become part of Native American culture.
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After the Indian Removal Act of 1830, many Native American tribes revolted and were allowed to keep their lands.
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The Trail of Tears was a brutal event in Native American history, on which many individuals perished along the way.
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When the Native Americans were forced to leave their homelands, they had to leave their sick and dying behind as well.
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Detailed explanation-1: -the name given to the long journey from Georgia to Oklahoma made in 1838 by the Cherokee and other native North American nations. They were being forced by the US government to move to the Indian Territory, and thousands died on the way.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy is a 2006 documentary by Rich-Heape Films. It presents the history of the forcible removal and relocation of Cherokee people from southeastern states of the United States to territories west of the Mississippi River, particularly to the Indian Territory in the future Oklahoma.
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: -Lumbee (Robeson and surrounding counties) Haliwa-Saponi (Halifax and Warren counties) Sappony (Person County) Meherrin (Hertford and surrounding counties)