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The Impact of the Trail of Tears on the Cherokee
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Trail of Tears
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…
Comparing the Middle Passage to the Trail of Tears
Cherokee
Trail of Tears
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…
| description | The Trail of Tears was part of a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government known as the Indian removal. Tribal members "moved gradually, with complete migration occurring over a period of nearly a decade." |
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| information | Start date: 1831 Location: Southeastern United States Victims: Five Civilized Tribes of Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Ponca and Ho-Chunk/Winnebago nations Perpetrators: U.S. Federal Government, U.S. Army, state militias Motive: Acquisition of Native American land east of the Mississippi River Participants: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek) Nation |
