Essays About Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was a journey of fear endured by the Indians of the Eastern Cherokee Nation. The exodus ripped through southeastern America during the prime of winter in 1838-1839. Thousands of lives were lost all for the insignificant benefits that would be granted to the United States government with the displacement of the…
On September 15, 1830, at Little Dancing Rabbit Creek, the Chiefs of the Choctaw Nation and representatives of the U.S. met to discuss the impact of a bill recently passed by the Congress of the U.S. This bill, with all the same good intentions of those today who believe they know better than we how…
Gloria Jahoda, the author of The Trail of Tears talks about how Indian populations dropped and how white people are the ones responsible for the drop of their population. The white men are not responsible for the drop of the Indian population. Johoda makes all Indians sound like defenseless children. Johoda is making excuses for…
“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 childhood. ….
Within United States History, there has been some horrible discrimination upon certain races of people. At the Trail of Tears native Americans were persecuted against heavily. Until 1828 the federal government had Cherokee rights to the land and in that same year Andrew Jackson was elected president and this all ended. On September 15, 1830,…
Description: The Trail of Tears was part of the Indian removal, a series of forced displacements and ethnic cleansing of approximately 60,000 Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
Start date: 1831
Location: Southeastern United States
Perpetrators: U.S. Federal Government, U.S. Army, state militias
Victims: Five Civilized Tribes of Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Ponca and Ho-Chunk/Winnebago nations
Motive: Acquisition of Native American land east of the Mississippi River
Participants: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek) Nation