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Political cartoon depicts President Andrew Jackson sitting stunned as his cabinet, represented as rats, run to escape his falling house. The cartoon...
Political cartoon poster, 1833-1886. Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830. Circular of the New-York Committee in aid of the Cherokee nation, February 10, 1832. Excerpt from Andrew Jackson’s State of the Union address, December 6, 1830. Excerpt from Worcester v. Georgia, 1832.
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- Conflicts with Settlers Led to The American Indian Removal Act
- Cherokee Leader John Ross
- American Indian Tribes Forcibly Removed
- Cherokees Forced Along Trail of Tears
There had been conflicts between Whites and Indigenous peoples since the first White settlers arrived in North America. But in the early 1800s, the issue had come down to White settlers encroaching on Indigenous lands in the southern United States. Five Indigenous tribes were located on land that would be highly sought for settlement, especially as...
The political leader of the Cherokee tribe, John Ross, was the son of a Scottish father and a Cherokee mother. He was destined for a career as a merchant, as his father had been, but became involved in tribal politics. In 1828, Ross was elected the tribal chief of the Cherokee. In 1830, Ross and the Cherokee took the audacious step of trying to ret...
In the 1820s, the Chickasaws, under pressure, began moving westward. The U.S. Army began forcing the Choctaws to move in 1831. The French author Alexis de Tocqueville, on his landmark trip to America, witnessed a party of Choctaws struggling to cross the Mississippi with great hardship in the dead of winter. The leaders of the Creeks were imprisone...
Despite legal victories by the Cherokees, the United States government began to force the tribe to move west, to present-day Oklahoma, in 1838. A considerable force of the U.S. Army—more than 7,000 men—was ordered by President Martin Van Buren, who followed Jackson in office, to remove the Cherokees. General Winfield Scottcommanded the operation, w...
Images of “hard times tokens” made between 1834 and 1841 to mock the economic policies of Andrew Jackson. A political cartoon about the controversy surrounding Jackson's removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States, 1832-33.
Oct 29, 2009 · Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was the nation's seventh president (1829-1837) and became America’s most influential–and polarizing–political figure during the 1820s and 1830s. For some, his...
Andrew Jackson: political cartoon. U.S. presidential election of 1824. ... Trail of Tears. This image also in: Students Cherokee; Students frontier; Students Indian ...
The Trail of Tears | History In A Nutshell. Share to Google Classroom. Information. Standards. Join our cartoon avatar host as he takes viewers through a brief expose on the events leading up to the forced removal of Native American tribes from the eastern United States.
