2006-09-14 14:08:35 · 13 answers · asked by Sean B 2 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
Westward expansion or manifest destiny
2006-09-14 14:10:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Trail of Tears
2006-09-16 13:40:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cherokee Trail of Tears refers to the Federal Indian Removal Policy that was enforced between 1838-1839.
The United States felt threatened by England and Spain, who held land in the western continent. At the same time, American settlers clamored for more land. Thomas Jefferson proposed the creation of a buffer zone between U.S. and European holdings, to be inhabited by eastern American Indians. This plan would also allow for American expansion westward from the original colonies to the Mississippi River.
President Andrew Jackson relocated tribes such as the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, & signed more than 40 treaties ceding their lands to the U.S. In his 1829 inaugural address, President Andrew Jackson set a policy to relocate eastern Indians. In 1830 it was endorsed, when Congress passed the Indian Removal Act to force those remaining to move west of the Mississippi. Between 1830 and 1850, about 100,000 American Indians living between Michigan, Louisiana, and Florida moved west after the U.S. government coerced treaties or used the U.S. Army against those resisting. Many were treated brutally. An estimated 3,500 Creeks died in Alabama and on their westward journey. Some were transported in chains. This sad and fearful time for them was called the Trail of Tears because they were crying on the trail they were forced to walk while relocating
2006-09-14 14:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by tatjana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I am white & I call it The Trail of Tears.
Another sad but true part of our history.
2006-09-14 14:21:41 · answer #4 · answered by carl l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The route from north Georgia to Oklahoma where the Cherokee people were forced to walk to the reservation the government so kindly set aside for them. Needless to say, it was not a pleasure stroll, and many did not make it.
2006-09-14 14:11:02 · answer #5 · answered by dbackbarb 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Indian Relocation?
2006-09-14 14:10:11 · answer #6 · answered by tiger_lilly33186 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Oregon Trail because they all died from typhoid and broken wagon wheels.
2006-09-14 14:18:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sad
2006-09-14 14:17:11 · answer #8 · answered by da_hammerhead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when all Indians were rounded up and forced to walk to the west toreversations to end their freedom a lot of them died along the way and there was alot of crying
2006-09-14 14:30:16 · answer #9 · answered by phil d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they called it
THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL TRAIL
2006-09-14 14:13:00 · answer #10 · answered by Janis G 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋