The Removal Of The Cherokee

The years 1838 and 1839 were not pleasant ones for the Cherokee Indians, a tribe who had, before this date, been settled in the Southeast, and were forcibly removed and made to travel West beyond the Mississippi River during these years. The difficult and heart-wrenching journey that they endured, known as The Trail of Tears, paints a picture of the conflicts between the Native Americans and white settlers at this time and was meant as a solution to these irresolvable differences. Many of the hardships the Cherokees were forced to withstand during their long voyage were insurmountable, resulting in mass devastation of the Native American tribe.
President Andrew Jackson had a couple of reasons for proposing the removal of Cherokees from East of the Mississippi and transferring them to the West where white settlers were, at this time, not especially inclined to live. One reason for the Cherokee’s removal was that “in 1828, when he was running for President, he knew tha...