WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Supreme Court ruling that Cherokees could be forced to move.
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trip by Cherokees to Indian territory called the Trail of Tears.
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treaty between Cherokees and the United States government.
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the U.S. government’s development of Cherokee land in Georgia.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was the Trail of Tears? 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: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -During their exodus to Indian Territory, Cherokees lost about a quarter of their population to disease, starvation and hardship.