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 family 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 homelands.
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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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The Trail of Tears was a brutal event in Native American history, on which many individuals perished along the way.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Guided by policies favored by President Andrew Jackson, who led the country from 1828 to 1837, the Trail of Tears (1837 to 1839) was the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast. Land grabs threatened tribes throughout the South and Southeast in the early 1800s.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-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.