Cherokee

Use and Abuse:

use- 1822- Cherokee supreme court is established.

abuses- 1832- U.S. Supreme Court supports tribal sovereignty in Worchester v. Georgia, but President Andrew Jackson opposes the decision and Georgia hold a lottery for Cherokee lands.

3 Conflicts:

1759- Cherokee chiefs are imprisoned by English soldiers.

1828- Cherokee tried to keep their lands by making a constitution and presenting it to Georgia but they refused their attempt and declared that the Cherokee were subject to the state laws.

1838- Federal troops forced 15,000 Cherokees into detention camps.

Trail of Tears:

1830- The Indian Removal Act has just been passed and it has been put into use straight away.

1838- The Trail of Tears officially starts and the Cherokee start to leave what used to be called home.

During the Trail of Tears the Cherokee took on hunger, disease, and weather. Hunger was scarce at the time because they had to travel so long when they didn't bring that much to eat. When it came to diseases they faced all sorts of them, for example: common cold, small pox, pneumonia, measles, malaria, and cholera just to name a couple of the hundreds of different diseases. The weather was also very harsh. The weather was probably a big reason why there was illness because it was so cold outside and they didn't have much to wear and little shelter. It probably also rained and snowed which is not good for someone if they don't have shelter or warmth. In they end some did make it but most did not. 4,000 out of 15,000 survived the terrible journey. They call it the Trail of Tears because of that fact... Because of all the sadness, pain, and death.