Description
This presentation focuses on the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation, called the Trail of Tears. It traces the Early Republic’s political and economic landscape, the 1828 presidential ascendancy (1828-1836) of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), the passage of the 1830 Indian Removal Bill, the 1835 fraudulent Cherokee Treaty of New Echota, and the 1838-39 treacherous 800 mile journey from their ancestral domains to foreign lands west of the Mississippi River, originally known as the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and now the state of Oklahoma. Ultimately, their resoluteness and resolve to maintain sovereignty as a Nation and people prevailed over tragedy.
