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The Trail of Tears: A Devastating Event in Native American History
TLDR The Trail of Tears was a tragic event in which Native American tribes, including the Cherokee, were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands by the United States government. This event had a profound impact on both Native Americans and African Americans who were forced into slave labor on the lands taken from the tribes.
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The Trail of Tears was a complex and devastating event that involved multiple migrations of Native American tribes, including the Cherokee, and had a significant impact on African Americans who were forced into slave labor on the lands the tribes were forced to leave.
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The United States wanted to expand and take over Native American land, so they gave them the choice to either assimilate into white culture or leave.
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Native Americans were encouraged to adopt European materialism and trade with European settlers, which led to Native American leaders going into debt and being forced to repay with their land.
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Native American tribes were forced to cede land to the government to repay their debts, and the government would then redistribute the land to white settlers, leading to a cycle of encroachment and retaliation.
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The federal government's solution to the issue of Native American tribes not wanting to relocate west of the Mississippi was to ignore their concerns and create factionalism within the tribes, leading to the split of the Cherokee into Eastern and Western tribes.
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The discovery of gold in Georgia and the availability of the cotton gin led to an increase in violence and the value of land, causing Native Americans to see that they would either have to go to war or leave.
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The federal government's first attempt at dealing with Native Americans was a voluntary relocation, but Andrew Jackson, a controversial figure, advocated for genocide and the division among tribes led to civil war and massacres on both sides.
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After the war with the creeks, the creeks as a whole were forced to cede their land and move out west, despite the fact that many of them had fought alongside Jackson's federal troops.
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Andrew Jackson's presidency was marked by his belief in the right of discovery over the right of occupancy, leading to the forced removal of Native Americans from their land.
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Henry Clay and other critics opposed Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policies, but they were ultimately unsuccessful in stopping it.
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The Indian Removal Act, under the administration of Andrew Jackson, was a humanitarian travesty that allowed for the mistreatment and removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands.
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