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    The document summarizes the Trail of Tears and the forced removal of Native Americans from their eastern lands. It discusses how the Indian Removal Act of 1830 gave the US government power to take Native American lands and relocate tribes west of the Mississippi. Specifically, it describes how the Choctaw were the first to be forced west in 1831, with thousands dying along the trail, and how the Creek removal in 1836 resulted in 3,500 deaths of 15,000 removed. It also discusses the forced removal of the Cherokee, including a petition signed by 16,000 against removal that was ignored, and the 1838 removal operation overseen by General Winfield Scott that led to thousands more Cherokee deaths on

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    The document summarizes the Trail of Tears and the forced removal of Native Americans from their eastern lands. It discusses how the Indian Removal Act of 1830 gave the US government power to take Native American lands and relocate tribes west of the Mississippi. Specifically, it describes how the Choctaw were the first to be forced west in 1831, with thousands dying along the trail, and how the Creek removal in 1836 resulted in 3,500 deaths of 15,000 removed. It also discusses the forced removal of the Cherokee, including a petition signed by 16,000 against removal that was ignored, and the 1838 removal operation overseen by General Winfield Scott that led to thousands more Cherokee deaths on

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    Native Americans

    Final Project
    Humanities
    Ray Grant
    4/28/16

    The event that lead up to the Trail of tears was the Indian-removal act. This act
    was created by president Andrew Jackson in 1830. This act gave the federal
    government the power to take native americans land and turn it into white mens farm
    land. In exchange for this land that was east of the mississippi the whites would give the
    native americans land west of the mississippi called Indian territory, and was located
    in present-day Oklahoma.
    The U.S. laws required the these types of removals to be voluntary and
    peacefully. However, in 1831 the Choctaw indians where the first tribe to be forced west
    by the U.S. army into the indian territory. These Choctaw indians were forced on foot
    and many in chains without any food, supplies or other help from the government.
    Thousands of indians died during this long and hopeless trail. It was named by one of
    the Choctaw leaders a trail of tears and death.
    The Indian-Removal process continued in 1836, when the U.S. army drove
    thousands of Creeks indians from their home land. On this harsh journey 3,500 Creeks
    indians died out of the 15,000 that was forced to the indian territory.
    At this time sever self appointed representatives of the Cherokee indians made a
    treaty for $5 million for all their land. However many of the Cherokee indians did not
    want to leave their homeland and did not feel they were rightly represented. The
    Cherokee indians came up with a petition against this treaty and 16,000 of these indians

    signed the petition to stop this removal act. However, President Jackson ignored the
    petition and went on with the treaty forcing the indians out of their land.
    In 1838 only about 2,000 Cherokee indians have left their land. President Martin
    Van Buren sent his general Winfield Scott and an army of 7,000 men to remove the rest
    of the Cherokee indians. This forced the remaining Cherokee indians to walk more than
    1,200 miles to Indian territory. Many things such as Whooping cough, typhus, dysentery,
    cholera and starvation caused many of these indians to die during the trial. It is
    estimated that more than 5,000 Cherokee indians died on this journey.
    Overall I am comparing a picture of a buffalo with its child as the americans
    indians. I compare them because the indians were living in their own land and did not
    try to hurt the whites, however the were helpless against the whites power.

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