President Jackson

On August 23, the “Trail of Tears” had begun for the Cherokee Indians. The Government (white men) was forcing the Indians of its tribal land to the west to unfavorable land. The Cherokee embarked on the long bitter journey to Oklahoma from Georgia. Make shift stockades were constructed by General Winfield Scott before the actually journey began. The army started to gather Indians on May 23 to put them in the newly constructed stockades (prisons). They Indians were treated unfairly no warning was given to them, instead they were captured doing their every day chores such as farming and tending to house hold duties. The white people where eager to come and claim land and look for gold as soon as the Indians were carried away. Once Andrew Jackson became president he pushed his views on the public. Jackson thought that Native Americans should be forced to move for the expanding settlements.


Jackson main interest was to acquire the land the Cherokee had, so he and other potentia...