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    The Santa Fe Trail was beneficial to the growth of New Mexico. It was a highway that allowed passage between Missouri and Santa Fe. It was also used as a major passage way to get to other places like Los Angeles‚ Mexico city‚ and Camino Real. It allowed for trade to occur in Santa Fe. The Santa Fe trail was one of the big three trails in United States history that opened up the roadway to the west. Before Mexico declared its independence‚ trading between the United States and Mexico was illegal

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    The Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears‚ a gruesome event taking place in the mid 1800’s. Andrew Jackson and his Indian removal Act‚ it costed the land of the Cherokees of the east Mississippi River to be taken away from them. Due to the land being stolen‚ the Cherokees had to migrate to the present-day of Oklahoma. With its devastating events such as‚ Hunger‚ disease‚ and exhaustion. Years later‚ The Cherokee people named the migration "The Trail of Tears". Over 4‚000 of 15‚000 of Cherokees were

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    Before The Trail of Tears was even a thought we first experience assimilation with Moravian missionaries being allowed on the Cherokee’s land. This tribe was very much settled‚ they had a newspaper‚ a form of slavery and even had gone as far as to adopt a government based mostly around that of the United States. In 1802 Georgia ceded their claim of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains to the federal government‚ in return Georgia wanted Cherokees out. Pleads were being made by tribes to stay

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    America thought were knowledgeable at the time have proved devastating to other parties. One example of this can be seen through the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears is a failure in history because it led to the death of thousands of American Indians‚ the act was unjust‚ and it caused Andrew Jackson to be known primarily for the cruelty of his rule. The Trail of Tears brought the death of countless American Indians. Due to the greed of the Americans‚ American Indians were forced from their

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    Nunna daul Isunyi: “the Trail Where They Cried” The Cherokee Peoples’ Trail of Tears History 101 – American History to 1877 Professor Fliegelman February 19‚ 2011 Why did the relocation in the late 1830s of the Cherokee people come to be known as the “Trail of Tears”? The Cherokee people were forcefully removed from their ancestral lands and relocated to the west‚ a direction that in their beliefs had been associated with death. The thousand mile trek that followed

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    deeming the meeting of leading members to be illegal. Federal agents were also sent in to coerce Cherokee leaders into further giving up parts of their land. Arguably the most widely known evidence of racial cleansing revolves around the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears refers to the forced march of multiple Native American tribes to new lands predetermined by the U.S. government.

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    Trail of Tears Among America’s rich history the United States has achieved many wondrous fetes‚ from declaring independence from Great Britain to abolishing slavery. Although the U.S. government has had such praise worthy accomplishments‚ there is one instance in United States history which brings shame to many Americas to this very day. This instance was the tragic removal of thousands of Native American men‚ women‚ and children from their homeland‚ notoriously known as The Trail of

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    The Long‚ Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians by Anthony F.C. Wallace is a brief account of Andrew Jackson’s mistreatment of natives and his Native American removal policy‚ known as the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This policy lead to the relocation and death of thousands of Native Americans and was later known as the “Trail of Tears”. Wallace reveals Jackson’s role (and strong arming) in government policies as well as the racist attitudes towards Native Americans by whites who desired their

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    I drove over to our public hiking trail and parked by the “Ruby hiking trail’ entrance. I got out of my car and grabbed my backpack that had my water bottle‚ salad‚ sweatshirt‚ and blanket in it. As I was walking down the trail‚ I heard birds singing‚ trees creaking‚ deer running‚ rabbits hopping‚ and a light breeze. About an hour into the hike‚ I started to get hungry. However‚ it was only about ten a.m. and I was hungry for lunch. I kept hiking down the trail so I could find a place to lay out

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    Trail of Tears In the 1830s nearly 125‚000 Native Americans lived in on millions of acres of land. By the end of the decade very few remained. Federal government forced them to leave their homes. They had to walk a thousand miles across the Mississippi River. The difficult and deadly journey was called the Trail of Tears. Andrew Jackson was the one who made this removal. He called it the Indian Removal. In 1830‚ the Indian Removal act was signed. Native Americans were forced to leave their

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