TRAIL OF TEARS By Emery Locklear And Jalen Mcgirt

TRAIL OF TEARS The Cherokee were forced to walk almost 800 miles, often in bad weather. One out of every four Cherokee died. The journey became known as the Trail of Tears. In time, the United States forced almost all American Indains east of Mississippi River off their land.

TRAIL OF TEARS At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia,Tennesse,Alabama, North Carolina and Florida-land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern united states.

TRAIL OF TEARS Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indian’s land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.

TRAIL OF TEARS In 1838 and 1839 as part of Andrew Jackson’s Indain removal policy the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the TRAIL OF TEARS because of its devastating effects.

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