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Tara S. McGrew
SNHU
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Prof. Matt Pearcy
January 14th, 2024
Writing Plan Progress Check 1 For my topic, I will be choosing the Trail of Tears because this topic has always been one close to my heart being of Cherokee lineage on my father’s side and my daughter being Cherokee on her dad’s side as well, his grandmother was full Cherokee native. Along with my interest being piqued by this topic, this topic is also very integral to American history. This is a piece of history
that is more often than not, forgotten about. In 1830, Andrew Jackson signed a bill that would remove and relocate many indigenous natives from the southeast portion of the United States and
into Oklahoma. (Drexler, 2019) The Cherokee were the last tribe to face removal. Under the Treaty of New Echota (1836), Cherokee who relocated willingly received payment for their land; about 2,000 took the government up on the offer. But more than 10,000 others refused, and beginning in 1838, U.S. troops led them on a brutal, year-long forced march to Oklahoma in which more than 4,000 died.
(SNHU, 2017) The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the Cherokees were forcibly
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moved west by the United States government. Approximately 4,000 Cherokees died on this forced march, which became known as the "Trail of Tears." (Drexler, 2019) My research question is; Why did the land that these natives built their lives upon have to be taken? Why couldn’t a deal have been worked out and how did they feel knowing that it was greed itself driving them from their lands? References: Drexler, K. (2019, January 22). Research Guides: Indian Removal Act: Primary Documents in
American History: Introduction
. Library of Congress Research Guides. Retrieved January 14,
2024, from https://guides.loc.gov/indian-removal-act
(2017, November 9). MindEdge webtext. Retrieved January 14, 2024, from
https://snhu.mindedgeonline.com/content.php?cid=170382
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