It is understood that Cherokee Indians inhabited the Americas longer until the British settlers arrived to explore new agricultural land. Unfortunately, they were pitilessly expelled from the property they had been calling their homes for so many years. The journey of their violent displacement was called the Tears Trail. This paper will focus on the influence of the Tears Trail on the Cherokee Indians.
It will explain about their lives before their relocation, their displacements and their terrible journey as they moved to a new city. The people of North America have existed without interruption for several decades. They had known harmony in the land that they legally owned during their lives. Yet all this tranquility abruptly stopped when an anticipated visitor first appeared in 1540. Hernando De Soto first came in contact with the indigenous peoples of North America (Warren).
“We are now about to take our leave and kind farewell to our native land, the country that Great Spirit gave our Fathers, we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth it is with sorrow we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhoodwe bid … Read more
In the 1830s, there existed a deep division among the nations white population reguarding Native Americans. In their dealings with Native Americans, the first white settlers adopted policies that were shaped by their own European worldview and experience. When the United States became a nation, the new government built on this European foundation, but over … Read more
There are many things that set Andrew Jackson apart from other presidents. His policies and personality set him apart from most. Although he was the seventh president, he was the first in many ways. Jackson was the first president to be born in a log cabin, and he was the first president to ride on … Read more
Trial of Tears and the Five Civilized Tribes During the early years of 1800s, valuable gold deposits were discovered in tribal lands, which by previous cessions had been reduced to about seven million acres in northwest Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and southwest North Carolina. In 1819 Georgia appealed to the U.S. government to remove the Cherokee … Read more
