Trail of Tears

The Trail of Tears is a term used to describe the tragic events within the American and Cherokee history. These events brought about the implementation of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. It advocated for the removal of the American Indians from the east of the Mississippi to the western side of the river. This…

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 “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…

The initial colonization of the North American continent brought with it continual conflict between white settlers and Native Americans. Populated areas quickly became overcrowded, leaving the influx of new arrivals to settle outlying lands that belonged to the local Indian tribes, who were often unwilling to move. The United States government created many oppressive, anti-Indian…

The removal of the Cherokee from their native lands has had a lasting impact on the tribe. Those who survived left behind a life and culture that they had practiced for hundreds of years. The tribe later had no choice but to adopt new ways of living if they hoped to remain alive in a…

Introduction The history of United States is rich with cultural heritage that have now reflected to the diversity people living in the nation. However, everything never came too easy because numerous pains, struggles and sufferings have resulted to obtain the concept of American freedom that every United States citizen now enjoys. For African Americans, a…