Trail of Tears

The Indian Removal Act The Indian Removal Act was an event that happened in 1838. This event was the removal of the Cherokee. The U.S Congress pass this act so that the americans could move to their lands. It was not right for the americans to take the Cherokee lands. The lands that the americans moved to are the rightful property of the tribes. The lands don’t belong to the states. The Indian Removal Act was not justified. One reason the indian removal act was not justified is because the…

When settlers started the move westward it was very apparent that there was a huge obstacle standing in the way, the Indians and the buffalo. For decades the US government tried to remove Indians out of their lands and into reservations. This process was very difficult because Indians could live off the land. A tribe can move and still be self-sufficient on the abundance of resources that the land provides. One of their biggest resources was the buffalo. Aside from the huge amount of meat a…

Begining the entry of the primary Europeans, the Plight of the Native American's has been managed not without anyone else's input but instead by the early colonialist and the future youthful country the United States would move toward becoming. Show Destiny and American Exceptionalism drove the nonmilitary personnel and government dispositions towards the Native American's and their territories. The U.S. Government has and still is constantly endeavoring to take, control and oversee lands saved…

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 The Indian Removal Act of 1830 is a very highly debated act. According to Johansen (2000), the removal of the “civilized tribes” from their homeland is one of the most notable chapters in history of American land relations (pg. 80). The removal influenced the natives in more ways than you can imagine. They had to change the way they live, the way they do things, the way they dress and even some had to speak a different language if they wanted to remain in their…

sometimes not talking out loud for hours on end. You don’t know how much you have to give until you’re asked to push past every boundary with no safety net. This is what I did in spring of 2014 when I rode my horse from Tennessee to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears. I still recall my first breakdown, and breakthrough, on that journey where I sat alongside a rural back road crying because my gear wasn’t fitting the way it should, I couldn’t get on my horse, and I had no option but to keep…

in wars, but, after years of fighting, Andrew Jackson is done with these Native Americans. He decides to ignore Congress and move the tribes to Oklahoma, thousands of miles from their homes. The authors’ perspectives on the Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears shapes the reader's understanding of the events by showing different impacts…

Andrew Jackson, looking to give the people what they wanted, decided to issue the Native Americans to leave their territory anyways, thus resulting in one of the greatest American tragedies, the Trail of Tears, in which tens of thousands of Native Americans were killed on their journey to the west ("Trail of Tears.”). Many American people look at this today and do not truly consider how devastating this was. Americans today make up excuses such as “that would never happen today” or “I did not…

Trail of Tears is a gruesome event that involved the forceful eviction of the native Indians in there ancestral homes to designated areas. The arrival of the whites in America meant that the local communities suffered so much in terms of forced labor and places of occupation. The Native Americans initially lived in Florida, North Carolina, and Alabama. The whites forced the native Americans to move across the Mississippi river a journey that was described as the Trail of Tears. To the Whites who…

American history, the events occurring that would lead to the civil war. Slavery, religion, State's rights were problems that could not be avoided anymore. Sequentially the question came to mind if America would be able to survive events like the Trail of tears or the massacre in Virginia as a nation. Masur Writes " The great eclipse of 1831 will be one of the most remarkable that will again be witnessed in the United States for a long course of years". (Masur 3) For the people the most…

The Trail of Tears occurred in 1830 when President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Indian tribes were forced off their land and moved to Oklahoma. Thousands of Native Americans died on this trip. The white man hated the Indians; therefore, they forced the Native Americans to move. However, to understand the full extent of this hatred we need to look back at when the colonist first came in 1607 to establish Jamestown, Virginia was settled. We also need to look at the…