Margaret Ann Meyer Olivia Walker Trinity Hiatt 3rd Hour Trail Of Tears What was the Trail of Tears? The Trail of Tears was in 1838 to 1839. It was part of Andrew Jackson’s Indian Policy. The Cherokee were forced to give up their land east of the Mississippi River and were forced to migrate somewhere in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee then called this movement the “Trail of Tears”, because of the horrible effects they faced. While they migrated, they had faced hunger, many deadly diseases, and much exhaustion. Over 4,000 out of the 15,000 that migrated had died. The Trail of Tears commemorates the suffering of the Cherokee people who were forced for removal, of where they had settled. If any arts from the Cherokee were left as a symbol …show more content…
of where they went and migrated from the time of March and up, they have not survived. The term Trail of Tears does not mean they cried on a trail, it stands for the suffering that the Cherokee had experienced.
The trail had a water route that stretched over Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. The British Proclamation of 1763 had peacefully designated the region between Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River as the Indian Territory. Many times the British and U.S. government ignored these acts of trespassing. In 1829 a big gold rush had occurred on Cherokee land in Georgia. Huge amounts were found which would cause wealth. Many Georgia mines produced at the most, 300 ounces of gold a day. Congress then soon passed the Indian Removal Act. It removed the eastern nations to tracts of western land of Mississippi and there was an amount of money provided for transportation and to native landowners. The price provided was around 500 dollars. The Southeast Indians were the most tightly organized and most investigated in agriculture. The most popular tribes that were getting made to move were Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Cherokee. They were known as the outsiders, because they located themselves in prime agricultural areas and had taught themselves and each other to be very well developed. That meant speculators who purchased properties could immediately turn a profit to fields that were already cleared, pastured with fence, barns, and houses
built. There was a downfall to this all. The federal government had no experience with transporting huge groups of civilians, household effects, farming equipment, and livestock. This had caused a bad impact. Many Choctaw died from exposure, malnutrition, exhaustion, and they had caught diseases while traveling. The Cherokee used legal action to keep from removal. The lawsuit was titled Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia, and the other was titled, Worcester vs. Georgia. It had soon reached the U.S. Supreme Court, but provided no relief. With the Seminole, a few Cherokee leaders made a group meeting about a removal agreement, but it got rejected by the people as a whole nation. Even though many families moved west in the mid-1830’s, almost all the Cherokee believed their property rights should be respected. Later on in 1838, the US military began forcing the Cherokee from their homes, and if they refused, they were forced by gunpoint. The ones who traveled and went on the river were loaded onto boats which traveled parts of Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi, and Arkansas River. They eventually arrived at Fort Gibson in Indian Territory after a few long days of travel. In 1987, the U.S. Congress made the Trail of Tears a National Historic Trail to remember all those who had suffered, and died during the time of removal. After 2009, the trail was double the size. If had reflected the addition of very many documented routes that were found and were new. Cites and Sources: Credits to: Brittanica.com Bio.gov History.gov American History and Facts.com
In the essay, “The Trail of Tears” by author Dee Brown explains that the Cherokees isn’t Native Americans that evaporate effectively from their tribal land, but the enormous measure of sympathy supported on their side that was abnormal. The Cherokees process towards culture also the treachery of both states and incorporated governments of the declaration and promises that contrived to the Cherokee nation. Dee Brown wraps up that the Cherokees had lost Kentucky and Tennessee, but a man who once consider their buddy named Andrew Jackson had begged the Cherokees to move to Mississippi but the bad part is the Indians and white settlers never get along together even if the government wanted to take care of them from harassment it shall be incapable to do that. The Cherokee families moved to the West, but the tribes were together and denied to give up more land but Jackson was running for President if the Georgians elects him as President he agreed that he should give his own support to open up the Cherokee lands for establishment.
The United States may be glamor of hope and prosperity for many nations still undergoing democratic maturity and development; however, her story is one that combines deadly struggles and an array of governmental decisions that defined the path to freedom of now the world’s most powerful country. One of the ways to understand the history of the United States is through revisiting the Trail of Tears, which is documented in the film. We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears. Notably, the film documentary with five parts in total highlighting the history of Native Americans from the 17th
Several Native Americans from the Cherokee tribe had feared that the whites would encroach upon their settlements in the near future so they moved west of the Mississippi many years before the Indian Removal Act was put into place. This good foresight and early movement allowed for them to pick the time that they wanted to leave and they allowed themselves the leisure of moving at their own pace and stopping when they wanted which cut down on casualties extremely and this also allowed them to allocate the appropriate amount of supplies for the trip before attempting to make it prematurely and causing catastrophe to hit. They established a government and worked out a peaceful way of life with the nearby surroundings and allowed themselves to blend into the area that they desired rather than an area that was designated for them. There was always a large tension building between the whites and Cherokee which had reached its climax after the discovery of gold in Georgia. This drove a frenzy that many people wanted in on to make out with a good sum of money as gold was in high demand and worth a lot at the time. When the gold was found it started a miniature gold rush and pulled in whites and
The war the American Revolution caused many British settlers to push westward. These settlers began to compete with the Cherokees for land. The Cherokee were glad when the Proclamation of 1763 was put into effect. This prevented settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. Most of the settlers became enemies. The settlers attacked the Cherokees, destroying many towns and killing many people. This attack caused the Cherokees to end their participation in the American Revolution. The American colonist continued to take over the Cherokee land.
The Cherokee Trail of Tears resulted from the execution of the Treaty of New Echota (1835), an “agreement” signed under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 (The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears). With the expansion of the American population, the discovery of gold in Georgia, and the need for even more land for American results in the push to move the Natives who were “in the way”. So with the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Congress acted to remove Natives on the east coast of the United States to land west of the Mississippi River, something in which was never embraced or approved by them (The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears). Many state governments, such as Georgia, did not want Native-owned land within their boundaries, while the Natives did not want to move. However, under the Removal Act, the United States Congress gave then-President Andrew Jackson the authority to negotiate removal treaties.
The Native Americans of the southeast live in a variety of environments. The environments range from the southern Appalachian Mountains, to the Mississippi River valley, to the Louisiana and Alabama swamps, and the Florida wetlands. These environments were bountiful with various species of plant and animal life, enabling the Native American peoples to flourish. “Most of the Native Americans adopted large-scale agriculture after 900 A.D, and some also developed large towns and highly centralized social and political structures.” In the first half of the 1600s Europeans encountered these native peoples. Both cultures encountered new plants, animals, and diseases. However, the Indians received more diseases compared to the few new diseases to the Europeans. The new diseases resulted in a massive loss of Native Americans, including the Southeast Indians which had never encountered the new diseases. Three of the main tribes in the southeast were the Cherokee and the Creek. They were part of a group of southeast tribes that were removed from their lands. These tribes later became known as “The Five Civilized Tribes because of their progress and achievements.”
Natives were forcefully removed from their land in the 1800’s by America. In the 1820’s and 30’s Georgia issued a campaign to remove the Cherokees from their land. The Cherokee Indians were one of the largest tribes in America at the time. Originally the Cherokee’s were settled near the great lakes, but overtime they moved to the eastern portion of North America. After being threatened by American expansion, Cherokee leaders re-organized their government and adopted a constitution written by a convention, led by Chief John Ross (Cherokee Removal). In 1828 gold was discovered in their land. This made the Cherokee’s land even more desirable. During the spring and winter of 1838- 1839, 20,000 Cherokees were removed and began their journey to Oklahoma. Even if natives wished to assimilate into America, by law they were neither citizens nor could they hold property in the state they were in. Principal Chief, John Ross and Major Ridge were leaders of the Cherokee Nation. The Eastern band of Cherokee Indians lost many due to smallpox. It was a year later that a Treaty was signed for cession of Cherokee land in Texas. A small number of Cherokee Indians assimilated into Florida, in o...
The settlers had used their land so much for farming, that it was no longer as good and fertile as new soil. However, being hunters, the Indian tribes had plenty of land suitable for harvest. In 1828, gold was found in the Cherokee lands of Georgia. This, along with the desire for more land, gave settlers incentive to remove the Natives.
In 1838, the United States government made the Cherokee people leave their homelands. The forced march of the Cherokee to Okalahoma became known as the Trail ...
The Indian Removal Act of 1830, it demanded. most American Indian tribes to move eastward of the Mississippi River toward the lands. in the west of the country. Cherokee people were forced to march westward on the Trail of Tears. In 1832 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee people.
The trail of tears was an important event in the U.S history because it talks about how the Indians
In 1838 President Andrew Jackson passed an Indian Removal policy, this policy would ensure loss of home and many deaths for the Native Americans. In the early 1830s there were approximately 125,000 Native Americans whom lived in vast lands in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida.(Trail of Tears). These lands were very important to the Native Americans who honored the lands their past ancestors walked and built a life.(Trail of T.). Sadly by the end of the decade many things had changed for the Native Americans.
In the early 1800s as the United States was expanding into the South, white settlers faced a barrier. The area they were expanding into was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations. To the white settlers, these nations were standing in the way, so they pressured the federal government to take away the land from them. These nations were forced to take a route that led to reservations west of the Mississippi River known as the Trail of Tears.
In the early 1830’s, several Native Americans were removed from their homelands and forced to move further west of the Mississippi River. This horrible event was known as the Trail of Tears. It involved several different tribes, however, the most commonly known was the Cherokee Indians.
Despite the fact that the Trail of Tears occurred over 178 years ago (1838-1839) it is still used as a reminder to the Native American population that the inequity that existed almost two centuries ago still persists today (Ridnor). As a product of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Native American population was forced to migrate thousands of miles across the United States, which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 4,000 people (Ridnor). The creators of the banner in the image seen above purposely chose the imagery associated with the Trail of Tears to get a negative reaction out of the opposing team with little regard to the Native American population that suffered from this historic