Trail of Tears
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There are fewer shameful incidents in American history than in the treatment of Native Americans. In Gloria Jhoda’s Trail of Tears, one is easily brought to tears by the purposeful and systematic destruction of the Native American culture and the destruction of their idyllic natural surroundings by the “white” man. Gold fever and Westward expansion drove white communities to seek property inhabited and owned by the Cherokees. Support from the U.S. government enacted policy that forced the Cherokees to leave behind their farms, their land and their homes. Even though President Andrew Jackson whose life and command were saved by Cherokee allies at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. With Jackson’s approval but in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Army began enforcing the Act, during which 1000s of Cherokees were collected and forced to travel from their lands or put into prison camps. The mentality of many whites viewed Native Americans as savages with little claims of ownership to American land. As one Pennsylvania settler asked: “Occupancy? A wild Indian, with his
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Approximate Word count = 782
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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