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Trail Of Tears Research Paper

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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. The Americans made the Choctaw tribe leave first in 1831, then the Seminoles in 1832, then the Creek in 1834, after that the Chickasaw in 1837 the last tribe that got pushed out was the Cherokee in 1838. More than 4,000 Indians had to go through the horrible feeling of many tribe members dying around them. From diseases that the British brought from England. Some of those diseases were smallpox, malaria, measles,
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