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US Expansion
By: Angelycia Bogart
Trail of Tears
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In the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of
acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida
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The federal government (due to Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy) forced them
to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian
territory” across the Mississippi River.
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The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muskogee, Seminole, Chickasaw,
and Choctaw tribes.
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Native Americans had the choice to either stay where they lived, and become citizens of
the United States, or forced to leave their homeland behind and journey to a new one.
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During this journey, the Native Americans suffered from exposure, diseases, and
starvation, and due to this that is why this period was known as “The Trail of Tears”
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By 1837, 46,000 Native Americans from the southeastern states had been removed from
their homelands, opening 25 million acres for white settlement.
● Migrated from Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama,
North Carolina and Florida to Oklahoma.
Oregon Trail
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A 2,200-mile east-west trail that allowed the migration of the early pioneers to Western
United States.
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It served as a critical transportation route for emigrants traveling from Missouri to Oregon and
California during the mid-1800s
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From about 1811-1840 the Oregon Trail was laid down by traders and fur trappers. It could
only be traveled by horseback or on foot.
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The first emigrants to make the trip were Marcus and Narcissa Whitman who made the trip in
1836. However, the first mass migration did not occur until 1843 when approximately 1000
pioneers made the journey at one time.
Once in Oregon and California, settlers would start a new life and build farms or set off to the
gold mines.