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The Trail of Tears is a series of forced re

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It's sadie more info

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The trail of tears is a series of forced removals of native Americans from their homeland.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYOQ05oDOIhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYOQ05oDOI

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There were Native Americans who lived in the Southeast around Georgia.  They got kicked out because the Americans wanted land.  They had to walk over a thousand miles to a Native American reserve on the other side of the Mississippi River.  While going there, thousands of Native Americans died.  In the Cherokee group, about 4,000 Cherokees died.

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I learned that the Native Americans were not counted as American citizens.

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trail of tears started from the year 1836 to 1839.

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it is called the trail of tears because they had to move out from there home land because of the settlers and lots of people died during that process

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The trail of tears

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More than four thousand people died in the trail of tears traveling to there destination

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Ethen I am not doing anything

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The trail of tears was kind of like war because so many people the settlers and the Native Americans died in the trail of tears

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The trail of tears is

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The Trail of Tears is called that because so many people died on that road, and the whole entire time, they were at gun point so that the Americans could kill them in an instant 

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The Trail of Tears is called that because so many people died on that road, and the whole entire time, they were at gun point so that the Americans could kill them in an instant 

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The cherokee and other tribes had to move west towards the

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they had to move west from the Missipi river

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I re-read the trail of tears story from a book and the native Americans were kicked out of there home by the whites.

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The trail of tears led to the east of the Mississippi.

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Native Americans had to move out of the home land because of the settlers. Lots of people died. that is why it is called the trail of tears because so many people died during the process of moving.

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The trail of tears was a session of forced extractions of native Americans. The trail of tears earned its name because so many people died of sickness and hunger on their extreme expedition. This trail led to other Indian territory on the west side of the Mississippi River.

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Heres a link to the wikipedia about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

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http://www.cherokee.org/About-The-Nation/History/Trail-of-Tears/A-Brief-History-of-the-Trail-of-Tears

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the trail of tears is the walk of Mississippi

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basically the trail of tears is a group of the native Americans that lived in the southeast united states near

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Lots of people had to move from Native America to the west side of the

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Andrew Jackson was responsible for Indian removal. Three days after the removal there was an Assembly where they kicked the Native Americans out their homes and

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this is part of a video that I watched the last of the sioux when the village got attacked

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The trail of tears is a trail that the Native Americans were forced to go on. The trail led to

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Near the beginning of the 1830's, about 125,000 Native Americans lived in Georgia, and near the end of the decade, there were barely any Natives in the Southeast United States.

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The trail of tears

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The Trail of Tears was called that because so many people died on a forced journey on a road that was really, really, long, and the whole entire way, all of them were at gunpoint .

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The Trail of Tears was called that because so many people died on a forced journey on a road that was really, really, long, and the whole entire way, all of them were at gunpoint .

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the native Americans had to move out from their homeland settlers made them move lots of people died when this happened

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The trail of tears affected many people 4,000 cherokees died.

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They forced the Native Americans to move out of their homelands in 1830

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In the trail of tears many people died it was a very tragic event it was also a racist act toward the native amiricans

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The trail of tears was a series of native Americans were forced away to other places There were different native Americans 4000 Cherokee died and the others were Chickasaw, Choctaw,creek and Seminole. They moved to the west of the Mississippi river.

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Scarlett stop whispering to grace about me

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The trail of tears

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the trail of tears was a series of forced removals of native americans from their homes. There were five tribes/nations, cherokee, chickasaw,  muscooge, seminole, and chochtaw. More than 15,000 native americans died.

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more than 15000 native americans died

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The trail of tears was a session of extractions of native Americans forced by white people. The trail of tears led to other Indian territory on the west side of the Mississippi River

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The Trail of tears was a thing that people tried to remove native amiricans from there home areas into south of the USA to around the west Mississippi River that was the native amiricans territory

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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory.

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The trail of tears is a group of native Americans in southeast United States near the Mississippi River.  The trail of tears suffered from a exposure disease. In 1838 The last forced  removal east of the Mississippi River.

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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west (usually west of the Mississippi River) that had been designated as Indian Territory.

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I watched some videos on a YouTube channel called Crash Course History. They have a lot of information about wars and how civilizations died out.

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Trail of tears is when tribes in Georgia, Florida and Mississippi had a conflict in land. The white settlers wanted to grow their cotton, they found a perfect place with the water source, The Mississippi River. The settlers went and took over Mississippi, The Indian tribe in mississippi was defeated.

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Trail of tears

Trail of tears is  a series of removal events of the native Americans from the east side to the west side of the Mississippi River.
European white men removed the native Americans from there home land.

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Scarlett dont bully sadiw

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The trail of tears was a series of removals of native Americans. They were forced out of there homelands and went west of the Mississippi River. The relocated people suffered disease and starvation. More than 4000 died before reaching the destinations.

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on the trail of tears native Americans were forced to walk 1,200 miles in a snow storm. About 15,000 people died because they were moved off there land. They were moved off their land because the settlers wanted to use the land for different reasons.

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At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida-land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. But by the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians' land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated "Indian Territory" across the Mississippi River. This difficult and oftentimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.
WATCH: Native American History Documentaries on HISTORY Vault
The 'Indian Problem'

White Americans, particularly those who lived on the western frontier, often feared and resented the Native Americans they encountered: To them, American Indians seemed to be an unfamiliar, alien people who occupied land that white settlers wanted (and believed they deserved).

Some officials in the early years of the American republic, such as President George Washington, believed that the best way to solve this "Indian problem" was to simply "civilize" the Native Americans. The goal of this civilization campaign was to make Native Americans as much like white Americans as possible by encouraging them convert to Christianity, learn to speak and read English and adopt European-style economic practices such as the individual ownership of land and other property (including, in some instances in the South, enslaved persons).

In the southeastern United States, many Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek and Cherokee people embraced these customs and became known as the "Five Civilized Tribes."

Did you know? Indian removal took place in the Northern states as well. In Illinois and Wisconsin, for example, the bloody Black Hawk War in 1832 opened to white settlement millions of acres of land that had belonged to the Sauk, Fox and other native nations.

But the Native Americans' land, located in parts of Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee, was valuable, and it grew to be more coveted as white settlers flooded the region. Many of these whites yearned to make their fortunes by growing cotton, and often resorted to violent means to take land from their Indigenous neighbors. They stole livestock; burned and looted houses and towns; committed mass murder; and squatted on land that did not belong to them.

Worcester v. Georgia

State governments joined in this effort to drive Native Americans out of the South. Several states passed laws limiting Native American sovereignty and rights and encroaching on their territory.

In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the U.S. Supreme Court objected to these practices and affirmed that native nations were sovereign nations "in which the laws of Georgia [and other states] can have no force."

Even so, the maltreatment continued. As President Andrew Jackson noted in 1832, if no one intended to enforce the Supreme Court's rulings (which he certainly did not), then the decisions would "[fall]...still born." Southern states were determined to take ownership of Indian lands and would go to great lengths to secure this territory.

Indian Removal Act

Andrew Jackson had long been an advocate of what he called "Indian removal." As an Army general, he had spent years leading brutal campaigns against the Creeks in Georgia and Alabama and the Seminoles in Florida-campaigns that resulted in the transfer of hundreds of thousands of acres of land from Indian nations to white farmers.

As president, he continued this crusade. In 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act, which gave the federal government the power to exchange Native-held land in the cotton kingdom east of the Mississippi for land to the west, in the "Indian colonization zone" that the United States had acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase. This "Indian territory" was located in present-day Oklahoma.

The law required the government to negotiate removal treaties fairly, voluntarily and peacefully: It did not permit the president or anyone else to coerce Native nations into giving up their ancestral lands. However, President Jackson and his government frequently ignored the letter of the law and forced Native Americans to vacate lands they had lived on for generations.

Trail of Tears

In the winter of 1831, under threat of invasion by the U.S. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from its land altogether. They made the journey to Indian Territory on foot (some "bound in chains and marched double file," one historian writes), and without any food, supplies or other help from the government.

Thousands of people died along the way. It was, one Choctaw leader told an Alabama newspaper, a "trail of tears and death."

The Indian-removal process continued. In 1836, the federal government drove the Creeks from their land for the last time: 3,500 of the 15,000 Creeks who set out for Oklahoma did not survive the trip.
READ MORE: How Native Americans Struggled to Survive on the Trail of Tears
Treaty of New Echota

The Cherokee people were divided: What was the best way to handle the government's determination to get its hands on their territory? Some wanted to stay and fight. Others thought it was more pragmatic to agree to leave in exchange for money and other concessions.

In 1835, a few self-appointed representatives of the Cherokee nation negotiated the Treaty of New Echota, which traded all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi - roughly 7 million acres - for $5 million, relocation assistance and compensation for lost property.

To the federal government, the treaty (signed in New Echota, Georgia) was a done deal, but a majority of the Cherokee felt betrayed. Importantly, the negotiators did not represent the tribal government or anyone else. Most Cherokee people considered the Treaty of New Echota fraudulent, and the Cherokee National Council voted in 1836 to reject it.

John Ross

"The instrument in question is not the act of our nation," wrote the nation's principal chief, John Ross, in a letter to the U.S. Senate protesting the Treaty of New Echota. "We are not parties to its covenants; it has not received the sanction of our people." Nearly 16,000 Cherokees signed Ross's petition, but Congress approved the treaty anyway.

By 1838, only about 2,000 Cherokees had left their Georgia homeland for Indian Territory. President Martin Van Buren sent General Winfield Scott and 7,000 soldiers to expedite the removal process. Scott and his troops forced the Cherokee into stockades at bayonet point while his men looted their homes and belongings.

Then, they marched the Indians more than 1,200 miles to Indian Territory. Whooping cough, typhus, dysentery, cholera and starvation were epidemic along the way. Historians estimate that more than 5,000 Cherokee died as a result of the journey.

Legacy of the Trail of Tears

By 1840, tens of thousands of Native Americans had been driven off of their land in the southeastern states and forced to move across the Mississippi to Indian Territory. The federal government promised that their new land would remain unmolested forever, but as the line of white settlement pushed westward, "Indian Country" shrank and shrank. In 1907, Oklahoma became a state and Indian Territory was considered lost.

A 2020 decision by the Supreme Court, however, highlighted ongoing interest in Native American territorial rights. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that a huge area of Oklahoma is still considered an American Indian reservation.

This decision left the state of Oklahoma unable to prosecute Native Americans accused of crimes on those tribal lands - only federal and tribal law enforcement can prosecute such crimes. (A later 2022 Supreme Court decision rolled back some provisions of the 2020 court finding.)

The Trail of Tears - actually a network of different routes - is over 5,000 miles long and covers nine states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Today, the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail is run by the National Park Service and portions of it are accessible on foot, by horse, by bicycle or by car.

Sources

Trail of Tears. NPS.gov.
Trail of Tears. Museum of the Cherokee Indian.
The Treaty of New Echota and the Trail of Tears. North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View. Smithsonian Magazine.
Justices rule swath of Oklahoma remains tribal reservation. Associated Press.
Justices limit 2020 ruling on tribal lands in Oklahoma. Associated Press.

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Trals of tears rulessssss

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the war lasted  from 1839-1850

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the people had to suffer the trail of tears and they weren't able to survive

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The Trail

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Andrew Jackson killed a lot of people if he hated them

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In the trails of tears many people died

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They made the Native Americans move territories.

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Trail of tears, man people died

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The trail of tears was when the native Americans moving to the

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The trail of tears is about the whites kicked the Native Amriecans out of the gold rush

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100,000 people were forced out of their homes. Out of that, 15,000 people died.

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The reason the trail of tears is called the trail of tears is beacasue 4,000 people died while they were being relocated

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Aden the trail of tears is in southeastern america it was probaly a typo.

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Native Americans suffered a bunch

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http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tearshttp://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears

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The trail of tears is a trail that the native Americans took because the settlers kicked them out of their own territory.

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The Native American were forced out of their home land  and died from starvation

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

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The native Americans got kicked out of the gold rush

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I also learned that Andrew Jackson got shot by a pistol

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The trail of tears is a trail that the native Americans were forced to go on. The trail led to the east side of the Mississippi River.

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The trail of tears is a trail that the native Americans were forced to go on. The trail led to the east side of the Mississippi River.

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They called it the trail of tears because 2,000 native Americans died while they where going