Another incident that involved race and ethnicity, is with the Native Americans in 1838 when Martin Van Buren enforced the Indian Removal Act, forcing the Cherokee nation to officially give up their land and move east to an area that is present day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this the “Trail of Tears” because of the effects of this journey. In which the Cherokee people suffered from hunger, exhaustion, and disease on the march. These effects caused over four thousand of the fifteen thousand Cherokees to die on the march.
