Trail of Tears

The second article does not have a title, but it is classified as Article 7. It was written by Andrew L. Yarrow, which was published in 1984. After the Trail of Tears, Native Indians were left helplessly to survive. All they had was a piece of land, the Earth. But having nothing did not stop Native Americans from getting up on their feet and create another strong and powerful nation. After many generations where they carried abundant amount of barriers and adversities, the Cherokee had succeed…

During the 1830s President George Washington and Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which emigrated Native Americans who were living in Indian territory to present-day Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears was a desolating time for over 100,000 Native Americans. In 1493, Pope Alexander the Sixth created an international law that related indigenous people to a lower status based on their non-Christian beliefs. This law, known as the doctrine of discovery, allowed European colonizers to claim…

and the Cherokee Indians. The land was very fertile and had good hunting ground for deer and other game. When gold was discovered in Dahlonega, Georgia, the Indians land was claimed by the legislature of Georgia and they were driven away on the Trail of Tears. Rome was founded in 1834. It was in a good area because…

Native Americans and Americans always have had a very tumultuous relationship. Starting from the first discovery and then colonization of the Native American's land; Americans pillaged and plundered villages, which purposefully depleted the Native American population. The tumultuous relationship boiled over when Andrew Jackson, known for his hatred of the British and Native Americans, signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 (Tindall and Shi 342). The Indian Removal Act authorized Jackson to give…

well as the Trail of Tears. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the research is Smith’s willingness to analyze the inter-fighting among the the Cherokee leadership. Smith skillfully develops…

Andrew Jackson was one of the most powerful presidents in the nineteenth century and often viewed as being the future of the American democracy. As a president, he was not a friend of the Native American population to say the least. This was no surprise considering the numerous campaigns he had led against many of the Indian tribes along the Southern borders as a major general. In his rise to presidency, inequality was very much present, especially among the Native American people. Jacksons view…

Indian tribes to reserved territory west of the Mississippi River to take over their ancestral homelands for white Americans. The United States’ policies towards the Native Americans in the Southeast was unfair and unjustified. The led up to the Trail of Tears. One of Andrew Jackson’s beliefs was not giving the Native Americans the same equal opportunity and rights as the Americans because he thought the Natives were “savages” and not up to the same level as the Americans. Although Jackson…

start having people live there and start a farm and start growing crops. Standing Bear and other tribe leaders did not favor the new law and wanted to eliminate the law. The tribe had to walk a path to get to Oklahoma, the path was called “The Trail of Tears”. One third of the tribe had died going along the path, either from sickness, disease or starvation. The tribe had tried to make peace with the U.S, but the U.S didn’t make peace with the tribe and made them move to Oklahoma.…

During the Creek War (1813-14), the Maskókî tribes that were in Alabama at the time revolted against the settlers, “the brutal repression and disastrous treaty forced upon them by General Andrew Jackson sent thousands of the most determined warriors and their families migrating southward to take refuge in Spanish Florida.” This of course refers to the First Seminole War (1814-18) when Andrew Jackson was too ambitious at trying to control the Indian problem. While there they merged with the…

The Many Cries of the Trail When most people think of the ancestry of history in the United States, many think of the first settlers, Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims. Not many recognize the Native Indians, Indians were the first people to settle in the lands and the many to be taken away from their sacred motherland. White Americans had said that they feared the Indians because they we’re aliens who took over land more so savages. President Andrew Jackson was the supreme ruler of the…