Cherokee removal

The name “Trail of Tears” began in 1831 with the removal of the Choctaw Nation but would be traveled by many. This long journey would be the end of many Native Americans. The Cherokee would be the hardest hit during this relocation and would come from a surprising friend so the Cherokee thought. The man that started and ended this push would be someone the Cherokee fought alongside years before. The seventh President of the United States was Andrew Jackson. He was President from 1829-1837

The Cherokees call this event the Nunadautsun’s or “the trail where we cried.” The Trail of Tears seems to be more focused on the Cherokee Nation who suffered most because of Jackson. The journey the Cherokees took was caused by the government and they suffered most during the journey and after, though it did make our country

As the Land-Hungry Americans poured into into the land, they encountered indians living in Indian Territory. (Caryl-Sue) The settlers wanted the removal of the indians so that they could expand as a nation and to use the land for their benefit, whether it be farming, hunting, or mining. So the white settlers tried everything to get the indians off the land. They stole and killed livestock, looted

Cherokee nations were greatly impacted by the historic events of Andrew Jackson being elected president, Gold Rush, and the stereotype of the indian nation being savages. The Cherokee nation is very overlooked and stepped on. Georgia's gold rush was a big event that lead to the Trail of Tears. As miners make their way into the Cherokee land it was called the Great Intrusion, with no thought of the Native Americans feelings. The gold rush led to 1,000 people moving into the sacred land. The Army then

Georgians wanting to expand and longing to have the land to themselves. This brutality and greed then led to the Indian removal from this land. Within these points in history that natives are pushed out of Georgia was led by political and social acts ranging from laws and acts being passed along with whites invading the Cherokees land. In 1802, the state of Georgia forced the removal of Indians from their land but the federal government and state government had to negotiate before this went into

The Cherokee Indians were native far before any British settler arrived to North America. Yet the Cherokee Indians were still kicked out of their homes even though they had lived there for many centuries before the Americans. This journey for the Native Americans was known as the Trail of Tears. In my paper I will go over the average day of a Native American before they were moved, why some tribes were removed in 1830, and the aftermath the Trail of Tears had on the Cherokee Indians. For all of the

implementation of the Indian Removal Act. The Creeks, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole and their actions against the removal process. Finally, how the Cherokee used the legal process to fight evacuation of their nation. Andrew Jackson was not the first president to order the removal of Indians, but he is definitely the most infamous. He was elected as the seventh president of the United States in 1828. Not long after being sworn into office he began to push the issue of Indian removal. He is quoted in a

the development, the white immigrants were articulating and insistent for an Indian Removal Policy. The Westward Expansion, integration, and dissolution caused damaging effects on Native Americans, as they were treated unjust and unkind during this notorious era in which the Indian Removal was created. The push for Westward expansion was alive, and well in the colonies of white settlers as the idea of a formal removal policy for Indians was up for debate in order to gain lands east of the Mississippi

Most Americans have at least some vague image of the Trail of Tears, but not very many know of the events that led to that tragic removal of several thousand Indians from their homeland. Indian lands were held hostage by the states and the federal government, and Indians had to agree to removal to preserve their identity as tribes. Trail of Tears is an excellent snapshot of a particular situation and will be eye opening to those who are not familiar with the story of the southern tribes and their

When the Indian Removal act of 1830 was enacted, the Cherokee Nation panicked. The Cherokee, specifically the romanticized Tsali, did their best to preserve their culture in the mountains of North Carolina, but what really saved them from their harsh fate that so many other Cherokee faced, was there white chief, William Holland Thomas. The Cherokee were “disagreeable and dangerous neighbors,” but they had a powerful ally in Raleigh, who saved the Eastern Band from a much harsher fate. The Eastern