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Why the Cherokee left (introduce who the Cherokee are!) //Who are they???//The Cherokee are a tribe of Native Americans who lived in the western part of Tennessee, the eastern part of Georgia, and the northern part of Alabama. //Why didn't they want to leave?// They didn't want to leave because their tribe had lived there for a long //time// and they had their houses built, their crops planted, and they had good land to hunt on. //Where did they live???// The Cherokee lived in the western part of Tennessee, the eastern part of Georgia, and the northern part of Alabama. //Where were they going? WHY DID THEY HAVE TO LEAVE??// In 1830, President Jackson encouraged congress to pass the INDIAN REMOVAL ACT, the Indians would be moved to the INDIAN TERRITORY now known as Oklahoma. //When did all this happen?// Time 1830's through 1840's. //How did they get there?// In 1838 President Martin Van Buren orderd US soldiers to force the Cherokee to leave their land. The 800-mile journey was so terrible it became known as the Trail of Tears. //How many people were impacted//? About 20,000 people. President Jackson said "Mr. Marshall has made his decision now let him enforce it!"

The Cherokee and The Indian Removal Act By Brigit Geiver The Cherokee are a tribe of Native Americans who lived in the western part of Tennessee, the eastern part of Georgia, and the northern part of Alabama, and they were losing their land to the Indian Removal Act.

In 1830 President Jackson encouraged congress to pass the Indian Removal Act. The Indians would be moved to the Indian Territory now known as Oklahoma because southern settlers were moving into the land of the 5 major Indian tribes - the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw Choctaw, and Seminole. The Cherokee did not want to leave their land so they went to the Supreme Court. The ruling gave the Cherokee the right to keep their land, but President Jackson disagreed with the Judge and still pressed the congress to pass the law on the Indian Removal Act. Several years later in 1838 President Martin Van Buren ordered US soldiers to force the Cherokee to leave their land. The 800-mile journey was so terrible it became known as the Trail of Tears.

A soldier named John Burnett that Martin Van Buren hired never forgot what he saw on the trail of tears, "I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes... I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward the west at gun point." The 2,000 Cherokee went on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma and when they got there in the winter of 1839 1/4th of the Cherokee had already died, that winter about fifty more died from lack of food because it was winter and they had no crops.

Did the Cherokees ever get used to their new land? Learn more about the Cherokees at a local library or website.