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Nov 9, 2009 · The Trail of Tears was the deadly route used by Native Americans when forced off their ancestral lands and into Oklahoma by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Nov 4, 2020 · Humanities › History & Culture. American Indian Removal Policy and the Trail of Tears. Andrew Jackson's Policy Led to a Shameful Episode in US History. Engraved portrait of Andrew Jackson. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. By. Robert McNamara. Updated on November 04, 2020.
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Despite the common association of Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears, ideas for Removal began prior to Jackson's presidency. Ostler explains, "A singular focus on Jackson obscures the fact that he did not invent the idea of removal…Months after the passage of the Removal Act, Jackson described the legislation as the 'happy consummation' of ...
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Trail of Tears, in U.S. history, the forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Southeast region of the United States (including Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among other nations) to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
May 8, 2013 · The Trail of Tears: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act. by Robert V. Remini 5/8/2013. Share This Article. The great Cherokee Nation that had fought the young Andrew Jackson back in 1788 now faced an even more powerful and determined man who was intent on taking their land. But where in the past they had resorted to guns, tomahawks, and ...
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Jan 29, 2024 · Idea for Use in the Classroom. The Trail of Tears is the name given to the forced migration of the Cherokee people from their ancestral lands in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina to new territories west of the Mississippi River. The journey, undertaken in the fall and winter of 1838–1839, was fatal for one-fourth of the Cherokee ...
