Trail of Tears

The Cherokee Indians were a small group of Native Americans in Georgia who changed their lifestyles to mirror ours in an attempt to fit in by making their society more civilized. Despite their attempts to fit in, the government felt poorly upon them and acted unjustly by evicting them from their land for what they…

The trail of tears clearly explained how much pain the Native Americans went through. This are the collected routes which the USA government used to forcefully move the Native Americans from their traditional homes to the Indian Territories. During this process of movement, many of the Native American suffered, died from exposed diseases, bullets because…

Edgar Allen Poe wrote and published his short story, “The Man That Was Used Up”, as a military parody as a response to the Trail of Tears and criticize America’s history of violent aggression against native cultures. In America during the 1830s, the Native Americans lived on millions of acres, spreading across land in Florida,…

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine tha t the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. -Martin Luther King. The trail of tears was an event that occurred in 1838 and cost the lives of thousands of Native Americans. Tribes such as Choctaw, Creeks, and the Cherokee were forced…

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a direct consequence of the Trail of Tears, an unfortunate event that impacted both American and Cherokee history. This legislation mandated the transfer of Native Americans from the eastern to the western side of the Mississippi River. Its primary objective was to relocate American Indians residing in Alabama,…

From what I learned making this analysis, the need for the powerful countries to expand into Americas and make a fortune on the resources affected the original people. Many of the actions and agreements were very unbalanced to the Indians with then favoring the immigrant settlers. The Indians having an unfavorable time forming alliances that…

There were about 16,000 Cherokee before their eviction. They put up the biggest fight; enough to make them the last tribe to be forced from their homes. They were a stationary tribe, and not nomads like many others. They had their own system of writing based on Greek. Hebrew, and English. They also had their…

            The “Trail of Tears” is one of the bleakest and most tragic moments in the history of the United States. The symbolic name of the “Trail of Tears” is given to the removal of the Native Americans from their territories in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama and yet a few other…

The Cherokees are a North American folk. This Indian folk has a batch to make with our history. It is the biggest Indian folk that we have today. The Cherokee folks had a broad scope where they lived across the United States, from Texas to the Great Lakes. The folk started in Asia, and over…

I have decided to dive into the depths of the American Indians and the reasoning behind all of the poverty and the oppression of the “white man. ” In doing so I came across a couple of questions that I would like to answer. A). How did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 affect Native…