The Trail of Tears

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The Trail of Tears
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The Cherokee Nation

• Adapted to some white traditions
• Farms and Cattle Ranches
• Language Cherokee Phoenix
• Missionary Schools
• Constitution
• All was good until

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Comprehension Check

• Describe the Cherokee Nation.
• Think About
• Occupations / Land
• Communication
• Education
• Law

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Jacksons Removal Policy

• Supported the Removal Government did have the
  right
• Two Choices
• Natives Protested
• Jacksons Response
• Quakers

Source White House
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Comprehension Check

• Explain what this quote means from
• Andrew Jackson.

I view them the Natives as conquered subjects
who live within the borders of the United
States
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Comprehension Check

• Here were the two choices that Andrew
• Jackson gave the Native Americans
• They could adopt white culture and become
  citizens of the United States.
• They could move into the Western territories not
  having their own government.
• If you were a Native American, what choice
• would you make?

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Indian Removal Act

• Government removal of Natives to Indian Territory

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Trail of Tears

• Began Movement in 1831
• Cherokees appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
• Result Chief Justice John Marshall
• Georgia laws do not apply to Cherokee
• Georgia and Jackson ignored it

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Trail of Tears

• John Ross (leader) opposed
• Gen. Winfield Scott took 16,000 Cherokees
• Clothes only on their backs 700 miles
• 4,000 (some say more) died

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"I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and
dragged from their homes, and driven at the
bayonet point into the stockades. And in the
chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I
saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six
hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward
the west....On the morning of November the 17th
we encountered a terrific sleet and snow storm
with freezing temperatures and from that day
until we reached the end of the fateful journey
on March the 26th 1839, the sufferings of the
Cherokees were awful. The trail of the exiles was
a trail of death. They had to sleep in the wagons
and on the ground without fire. And I have known
as many as twenty-two of them to die in one night
of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold and
exposure..." Private John G.
Burnett Captain Abraham McClellan's
Company, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted
Infantry Cherokee Indian Removal 1838-39
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Native American Resistance

• Not all moved West
• Tsali
• Seminoles and Florida
• Osceola

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Comprehension Check

• What if the relationship between the Native
• Americans and United States was
• completely peaceful and compliant?

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Abolition And Womens Rights
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Abolitionists and Slavery
Abolition movement to end slavery
Northern States Outlawed
Banning the importation of African Slaves
Frederick Douglass
Click Here for More Info on Douglass
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Battle for Freedom

• David Walker urging slaves to revolt
• The Appeal
• Mysterious Death
• William Lloyd Garrison abolitionist
• The Liberator
• Almost hanged, but mayor stepped in

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Eyewitnesses to Slavery
Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass - Lecturer
for the MA Anti-Slavery Society - Published
Autobiography in 1845 - Left to speak in Britain
and Ireland - The North Star
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The Underground Railroad
Aboveground series of escape routes from the
South to the North Traveled on foot, wagons,
boats, and trains Henry Browns Storyto
Philadelphia This side up with
care. Traveled by night and stayed at stations
Stables, attics, cellars Frederick Douglass
hid up to 11 slaves.
Follow
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Hillforest Mansion Aurora, Indiana (50 miles
south of Liberty)
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Harriet Tubman
Conductor Born into slavery Fractured by a
two-pound weight Went to Pennsylvania Carried a
tiny pistol 40,000 for her capture Helped 300
slaves
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Seneca Falls
Convention Suffrage Susan B. Anthony
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in
  London in 1840
• Not allowed in
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Could not vote, sit on juries, or hold public
  office
• Treated as children

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Seneca Falls Convention

• Held in NY on July 19-20, 1848
• 300 participants (Frederick Douglass)
• Declaration of Independence
• Slim Margin suffrage
• Political Power

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Continuing Call for Rights
have a purse of their own

• New York Herald
• Property and wages
• Mississippi in 1839
• New York

Susan B. Anthony
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Concluding Question

• Why do you think that many of the people who
  fought for abolition also fought for womens
  rights?