Trail of Tears Have you ever been taken from home?, where you had laughter,sadness good times and then these people that you have heard of,These people who have lighter skin then you come and take you away.That's how the 5 tribes felt the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek last but not least the Seminole.In this piece you will learn Who caused it,Why it happen. Imagine walking through 9 states that’s a lot of states to walk across, that was how the 5 tribes had to do.Alabama, Arkansas,Georgia,Illinois,Kentucky,Missouri,North California,Oklahoma and Tennessee those were the 9 states they had to cross.Maybe the states were smaller than what they are now so they did not have to walk over the states in present day size. Andrew Jackson our seventh president started it all he caused the Trail of Tears.He was strongly against black and native Americans. That's not what started the Trail of Tears,Andrew Jackson needed to relocate them far from their home he needed the land that they were on.So Andrew tried to get them to move he would give the native Americans land further west they didn’t want to go they wanted to stay right were the where.Andrew did not like this he left them be for a couple more year.In 1831 Andrew kicked them out the Indians did not want to leave again so Andrew sent an army out to fores them out.A lot of native Americans died and it was a sad time,that’s why they called it the Trail of Tears. …show more content…
At the end of this text hopefully you learned something about the Trail of Tears and hopefully you understand that it was a hard
( A Soldier Recalls the Trail of Tears, 1838-39) " The long painful journey to the west ended March 26th, 1839, with four-thousand silent graves reaching from the foothills of the Smokey Mountains to what is known as Indian territory in the west. And covetousness on the part of the white race was the cause of all that the Cherokees had to suffer." A white soldier tells the journey of the natives as long and painful because of the natives being forced against their will to leave their homes forever killing four thousand natives. President Jackson didn’t contemplate the natives life's because all he wanted was more land for the U.S..
As a part of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Native American people were forcefully assembled and made to endure one of the longest walks from Georgia to Oklahoma on what has become known as the Trail of Tears. President Andrew Jackson’s motives for movement of the Native people to a new territory was to eliminate the Native race by stripping the victims of their vital resources needed for basic survival. After 178 years of expansion and growth in the United States of America, the circumstances for Native Americans remain unchanged. President Jackson’s sentiments have permeated the present society in issues associated with the physical and emotional fight to decolonize. Decolonization is both the individual and communal effort to regenerate
Between 1830 and 1850, the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, Creek, Seminole and Cherokee peoples were forced to leave their homelands to relocate further west. The Cherokee Nation removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1829, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush.1 During the Trail of Tears (1838-1839), the Cherokee tribes were moved to the Indian Territory, near the Ozarks. They initially settled near Tahlequah, Oklahoma. This is where the tribes historically settled in 1838 to 1839, after the Indian Removal Act of 1830 passed during the presidency of Andrew Jackson.2 The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw
After all the work that the Indians did to fit in and be like the white men, what they got in return was never being able to get their land and go on an 800 mile forced journey to present day Oklahoma. This journey was called the Trail of Tears. Andrew Jackson thought that it would be safe for the Natives to leave their land to prevent any conflict. He also stated that, “…send the natives to a land where they may live longer and possibly survive as a
Andrew Jackson, John Marshall, and The Trail of Tears There have been many dark times in our History as Americans. Among them is the Trail of Tears,brought upon by Andrew Jackson, which exiled the Indians from the American south and resulted in the death of thousands on the way to Oklahoma. Before this trying time there was speculation within the supreme court whether to treat the Native tribes as a sovereign foreign nation or as a dependent entity within the United States. I will discuss how these decisions came to be, the reactions to said decisions, and the aftermath of these rulings which inevitably leads to the Trail of Tears.
The Trail of tears was when Andrew Jackson forced the Cherokee tribe to give up all of their land east of the mississippi river. In 1829, Andrew Jackson signed the Indian removal policy, to make it so the Indians would get with drawn from the east of the Mississippi River and relocate them to the west of the Mississippi River. The tribes that were affected were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. These tribes had to leave their homeland and get relocated to the west of the Mississippi River against their will, so that slave owners could use their land for slavery. Andrew Jackson illegally forced the Cherokee tribe off of their land because the Supreme court ruled that the state of Mississippi couldn't make treaties or do anything that was on Cherokee land.
The trail of tears was a tretrous journey that the native Americans took. Because the Americans would promise land, then take it back. First off it was approximately one thousand miles. The five different tribes were the Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, and finally the Creek. They traveled from deep in the south to present day Oklahoma.
Did Andrew Jackson help people of the U.S. or did he not? Some people might say that Andrew Jackson did help american citizens, and some people might say that Andrew Jackson didn´t help American citizens. If everyone had to say what they think Andrew Jackson did, then they should say that he did not help Americans. One reason was that he killed inocent indians while moving them west. Two,He hurt south carolina telling them that they had to follow his law even though they didn 't want to.
The Trail of Tears is undoubtedly one of the most inhumane events in U.S history. It all started with the Indian removal act enforced by President Andrew Jackson. The U.S military were ordered to forcefully evict many innocent people and have them walk extremely long distances during excruciating weather. Many Indians dropped dead in the midst of the trail causing grief for the Indians hence, its name Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was an abomination for the U.S due to the fact that this act was unconstitutional,caused mass genocide, and the land had originally belonged to the natives.
The Trail of Tears was named so because of its devastating effects to the Cherokee nation. They were removed for one main reason, so their land could be used by the white men. Nobody had the right to take away their land. The land had been theirs since before the Europeans came and now they were being forcibly removed from it. On top of that, soldiers forced them to travel in the winter, causing thousands of Native Americans to die.
I decided to research about The Trail of Tears Removal Act when my mom bought me a book about “100 events that changed the world” to give me some ideas for the trail of tears. Each day I would read about five to ten stories right before I went to bed. I finally landed on the Trail of Tears and remembered in fifth grade learning about the horrible journey. Before doing any research on the Trail of Tears I assumed that the Americans were being greedy and wanted more land. But no, they found gold and pushed away the Native Americans to the Indian Territory which began their journey.
The Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears was a sad and extremely harsh time for the Native Americans. Multiple factors led up to The Trail of Tears including Major Ridge’s declaration of war on the Creek Indians. Originally Native Americans thought that white settlers would help them; however, the settlers had a different plan in mind to sweep the land out from under their feet and force them away from their land. So then the forced removal of the natives began.
The trail of Tears was an unethical decision implemented by the government of the United State. The President Jackson used force to push the native American out of their lands. According to www.ushistory.gov, << Over 20,000 Cherokees were forced to march westward along the Trail of Tears. About a quarter of them died along the way>>.
Jackson was wanting to change Washington and America. He done that very fast. The very first major piece of legislation, Jackson had recommended and got passed, was the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This act forced Jackson to prevent all the Indian tribes to live East of the Mississippi River. There were five Indian nations that were highly effected.
While making this gruesome travel more than 4,000 Indians died from disease, starvation and treacherous conditions. This travel became known as the “trails of tears”. These Native Americans were not how white settlement described them. Many of the tribes adopted Euro-american practices and created their own communities with schools and churches, even developed their own languages and created bilingual newspapers.