A presentation on the Trail of Tears by 8th grade students

1. Trail of tears
The events and tragedies of
trail of tears

2. Trail of Tears

3. Background information
 In Georgia there were many disputes between the
Indians and Georgian
 The Indians had been living on land for thousands
of years
 Manifest Destiny
 Andrew Jacksons “Indian Removal Act”
 Cherokee resistance (Worchester vs. Georgia
1832) Supreme court found it constitutional after.

4. Trail of tears
 In 1838 thousands of Indians were forced off land.
 Including Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and
Creek.
 President ignoring Worchester vs. Georgia and
pushes Indian removal.
 Suffered cold, illness, and starvation
 Afterward they revived national intuitions in Indian
territory and continued as an independent nation.

6. How did the American government
get the Cherokee nation to move
from their homeland
 They herded 16000 Cherokees into holding camps to
wait for removal.
 Indians who tried to flee were shot.
 Those who waited in the camps suffered from
malnutrition.

7. How did the American government get
the Cherokee nation to move from their
homeland
 The American government moved all the
tribes to the west and when they did they
called it the trail of tears and many tribes
died.
 The American goal was to open up the
lands east of the Mississippi river for the
white settlers.
 The American's created many oppressive
anti-Indian land.

8. Citations
 http://www.georgianencyclopedia.org/n
ge/article.jsp:id=h-2722
 http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/tr
ailoftears.html
 http://www.allthingscherokee.com/artcile
s-culture-events-osolol.html