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Andrew Jackson was a fighter for what he called the "Indian Removal". Since Jackson was an Army general he had spent years leading campaigns to transfer thousands of land that were the Native Americans and just give it the White Americans. Since he was president he kept doing what he thought was the right thing to do, especially for the country. In 1830 he signed the Indian Removal Act, which handed over the government the right to take the Native Americans land and give them land in the west across the Mississippi river.
The Indian Removal Act required the government to talk about treaties fairly, voluntarily, and peacefully. This law didn't include for anyone even president Andrew Jackson to push the Native Americans to give up their land. But the president and his government ignored the law and forced the Native Americans to leave their land. In the winter of 1831, the Natives left their land. They went on the journey without food, supplies, or any help from the government. Thousands and thousands of people died, that's partially how the name "The Trail of Tears" happened.
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
The Indian removal act still continued. In 1836 4,000 of 16,000 creeks didn't survey the journey to Oklahoma
in 1835, some of the representatives of the Cherokee nation talked about the Treaty of New Echota, which is basically selling all the Cherokee land east of the Mississippi river for 5 million dollars, relocation assistance and compensation for lost property. Others in the Cherokee nation felt very betrayed, they didn't want to leave. They thought it wasn't right to have just a few "leaders" decide what should happen to them all.
By 1838, about 2,000 Cherokees left their homes in Georgia for the Indian Territory. 7,000 soldier's helped with the removal process. Winfield Scott and his soldiers forced the Cherokee's while the Whites went into the homes and stole their belongings. They ended up traveling 1,200 miles to the Indian territory. Whooping cough, typhus, dysentery, cholera and starvation turned out to be the cause of the 4,000 people who died on the trip there.
By the time 1840 came just about maybe over ten thousands of people left their southeaster lands which were their forever homes all the way across the Mississippi river for the Indian territory. The federal government thought their new land which was the Natives lands would remain peacefully for the whites. What they didn't know was the upcoming event. In 1907, Oklahoma became a state and the Indian Territory ended at last.
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