Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Trails of Tears




The United States government tore down their homes and made theme from their homelands. In 1838, Cherokee Indian people from Tennessee, and Alabama, and North Carolina and Georgia were sent to Oklahoma. The Cherokee were treated badly. Hundreds of Cherokee died during their trip west, and thousands more perished from the hardships. The Indian removal act of 1830, which moved Indians to west of the Mississippi River. It was hard for them to travel to the west it was cold they had not enough clothes but some of them died but it was so that some of them had to live there home land But most of them had no food and Indian was bet ‘ten to death and some them die on the way though Tennessee, Arkansas, Memphis, .they felt threatened by the England and the Spain, who held land in the western part of the continent.

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