Persuasive Essay On The Trail Of Tears

The indian removal act it was a political and military action proposed by the seventh president of the United States Andrew Jackson on removing the Native Americans (Indians) by force from their home land, which today is the state of Georgia, and move them to the West of Mississippi and Oklahoma. Edward Everett, Massachusetts politician, was against the removal act by forced and claimed: “Nations of dependent Indians, against their will, under color of law, are driven from their homes into the wilderness. You cannot explain it; you cannot reason it away.... Our friends will view this measure with sorrow, and our enemies alone with joy.” Although the Cherokee tried to maintain their territory and a good relationship with the US Government by assimilating to american-european culture, in the early 19th century the state of Georgia forced itself on the Cherokee Nation territory …show more content…
The trail of tears was the journey made by the native americans and some american soldiers, to scolt the indians, to the west of Mississippi and Georgia. The trail of tears was a unfortunate journey and considered a genocide of the cherokees because in their way to Mississippi had frozen lakes because of the harsh winter and many storms, they had to seat there for weeks and wait in order to cross the frozen lake. Most people had burn wounds on their backs and many people were near death because they were too sick and tired to hunt and starvation was causing deaths. Around 14-15 people were buried every stop in their way to their destiny. The journey was more than 1,200 miles and around five thousand people died. That was the last straw to the end of american and indian relations, after that the cherokee ‘nation’ and american government had almost none relationship and the fact that the government, specially Andrew Jackson, caused the devastation and genocide thousands of people it will never be erased from our american