Terms: INDIANS of North America ; TRAIL of Tears‚ 1838-1839 ; CHEROKEE Indians -- Relocation ; JACKSON‚ Andrew‚ 1767-1845 ; SEMINOLE Indians ; UNITED States -- History -- 1815-1861 Authors: McGill‚ Sara Ann Source: Indian Removal & the Trail of Tears; 2009‚ p1(Click to view ’Table of Contents’)2p Publisher: Great Neck Publishing Database: Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition Indian Removal & the Trail of Tears The initial colonization of the North
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The Trail of Tears began with the idea of white settlers wanting to settle in the land where Native Americans were to grow cotton. They believed that Native Americans weren’t people‚ and they were just objects occupying the land they wanted and felt they deserved. The white settlers were forcing Native Americans to migrate to designated “Indian Territory” that was across the Mississippi River. The ideas of the early white Americans was to try to convert the Native Americans to be more like the
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People could argue that they are almost identical to the problems the early settlers faced. Defining a person and an American stems to the root of these arguments. One could refer back to the Trail of Tears during the early to mid-nineteenth century‚ where the somewhat recent settlers on American soil force out native tribes from territory that date back to ancestors. Many of the American arguments float to the surface‚ such as the idea that the
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In the very beginning of‚ Trail of Tears‚ set the tone of the whole entire movie. The struggle of being born an Indian. John Ridge was a gifted young man and his parent knew so they did everything possible to see that he got a white man’s education. He earned a law degree and eventually married a white man’s daughter. However‚ he was still an Indian. No matter what he did‚ he could never escape the fact that he was an Indian. He would never be good enough. Even an uneducated‚ illiterate white
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The Trial of Tears was when the Native Americans in the Southast were forcibly removed from Georgia. They were made to march from Georgia to present-day Oklahoma. It was caused by multiple people and events‚ but there were also people who tried to stop this tragic event. Gold was discovered near Cherokee territory in 1828. Thousands of white miners wanted this land for the gold and began to settle there without permission. Whites started to demand the government to remove the Native Americans
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On August 1838‚ the journey of Cherokees began in what was known to history as the Trail of Tears. The Trail of tears involved thirteen parties of the Cherokee being forced by U.S. army troop under Andrew Jackson presidency to leave their residence in the southeast and migrate to the west. The discovery of gold in northern Georgia in 1828 and compulsion for the accessibility of more land to settle the growing white population contributed to more local delirium for the Indian dismissal. With the Election
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While watching "Trail of Tears" I noticed the hardship of wanting to stay in the same location from John Ross break apart due to other political needs which lead to relocation of the Cherokee tribe. With the horrific pathways of muddy terrains and snowy areas during the process of relocating many of the Native Americans died day after day. However they had no choice since it was either to stay at their original homes but disband from the tribe or to contiue in the tribe but to face the predicaments
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out its indigenous population.”-Martin Luther King Jr. In this quote‚ King is referring to the policy that the United States encompassed to take hold of the land pertaining to the Native Americans‚ The Indian Removal Act. But even before “The trail of tears” occurred the Indians suffered at the hands of the early European discoverers. It was in the year 1492 that the newly kings of a centralized Spain sent forth an expedition that would result in the European
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States. The federal government forced the Natives to leave their homes and walk thousands of miles to a new “Indian territory” in Oklahoma. This difficult and very deadly journey became known as the Trail of Tears‚ and it led to many conflicts between the United States and the Native Americans. The Trail of Tears was not just a sudden action taken by the US government‚ there were multiple things that led up to the trail. In his 1831 ruling in Cherokee v. Georgia‚ Chief Justice John Marshall (who
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Annotated Bibliography Blackburn‚ Marion. "Return or the trail of tears." Mar.-Apr. 53-64. ebsco. Web. It’s easy to miss this subtle groove‚ covered in pine straw and vines‚ worn in the ground of eastern Tennessee. In the summer of 1838‚ about 13‚000 Cherokee walked this path from their homes in the Appalachian Mountains to a new‚ government mandated homeland in Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears was a journey of some 900 miles that took approximately nine months to complete. After they were rounded
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