Trail of Tears Essay - Grade: A PDF

Title	Trail of Tears Essay - Grade: A
Author	B Miles
Course	Applied History
Institution	Southern New Hampshire University
Pages	1
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Balencia Miles HIS 200: Applied History Southern New Hampshire University August 3, 2020

Thesis The Trail of Tears was a horrendous act orchestrated by Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act in the 1830s. The government conducted many wrongful decisions during this time period. Let’s analyze Andrew Jackson’s strategic decision making, and Chief John Ross protest against the removal. Introduction In 1838 the Trail of Tears was an experience that forever changed the history of the Native Americans and the United States. Several thousand Cherokee Native Indians lost their lives when forced to leave their homelands through laws put in place by federal government. The beginning of the negotiation of several treaties to establish land boundaries and trade routes started in 1776. Andrew Jackson enforced the Indian Removal Act in order to remove the Native Nation. The white settlers desiring more of the fertile southern lands for farming....