Account of the Trail of Tears (2068 words, 4 pages)
In the spring of 1838, the U.S. Army forced more than 15,000 Cherokee Indians from their homelands in North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia (Perdue Green, 1). They were forced to travel over 1,000 miles to what is now Oklahoma (Gilbert, 2). Many walked the entire trip without shoes or ...
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