TheTrailOfTears.Project3-Week16.Tenneyuque
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- In the early 1830s, 125,000 Native Amerivans lived freely on millions of acres spanning out across the lower corner of the early U.S. This included Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida.
- Many white people wanted the Native's land, and for the Natives to be "civilized". However, George Washington, elected president at the time, believed that the Natives were their own separate nations, scattered throughout the states. But he agreed to send "missionaries" to teach the Natives the english language, and to convert them to Catholicism.
- Soon, schools were opened all over the Native territories to teach the Native women, children, and men. Unfortunately by 1830, the Indian Removal Act was passed by the newly elected president, Andrew Jackson. The Chicksaw, Cherokee, Chocktaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes all had multiple cases they wanted to bring to trial, but only a few made it to the court.
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- Some took the money the government offered and left early, but most fought political and physical battles for their ancestors land. But eventually, the Natives were pushed out of their homes, forced to leave all of their history and sacred grounds behind. Thousands were even caught by soldiers and chained, dragged away from their home and forced to walk over a thousand miles.
- Thousands of people died of illness, disease, frostbite during the winter months, and starvation on the way to Oklahoma, where the government had set aside a 'reserve' for the tribes. They were not even allowed to stop for long to bury their dead. This was known as the Trail Of Tears.
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