The Trail Of Tears
Kylie Parker & Kymora Paul On May 26, 1838, president Andrew Jackson was getting complaints from many different countries that the Indians, were getting too much farmland than other countries. So, this is how the trail of tears started, first, came the Indian removal act, an act were president Jackson did not want to upset or disappoint the complaining countries that were saying how the Indians were getting way too much farmland. So president Jackson started removing Indian tribes (specifically, the Cherokee) by forcing them to leave their homes just because of how much farmland they owned! (That probably feels like being forced or kicked out of your house/apartment.) When the Trail of Tears began, U.S. troops rounded up the cherokees and from their traditional lands in southern appalachian held them in camps then forced them to reload the Indian Territory, on present day Oklahoma. After president Jackson kicked the Indian tribes out of their homes, he made them walk (probably barefoot) all the way from Georgia to the west coast, and only the injured and elderly got to ride in the wagons! Everyone else had to walk behind the wagons. But the reason it is called the “ Trail of Tears,” is because of how so many people died along the way from sickness, starvation, and more. After a tribe member dies, a few other tribe members would dig a hole and bury them there and they would keep moving. About 13,000 Cherokee had to be moved between september and November.
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Maalik
1/11/2017 05:42:17 am
SO GOOD. I would hate if that happened to me, but they get to go with their friends
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samyah
1/11/2017 05:45:12 am
me too i hate that they did a good job
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samyah
1/11/2017 05:43:50 am
i love your work you put a lot of work into it
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