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 * __​"Trail of Tears." America the Beautiful. 2010. Grolier Online. 4 May 2010 Main Idea:__** In 1830 Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act.

It was not the name of the trail until many Indians died. They died due to exposure to cold weather, starvation, and diseases. They had to travel 1,000 miles on the journey.
 * __The Trail of Tears__**: When Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act he forced the Cherokee to move and about one fourth of them died on the journey this journey became known as the Trail of Tears. The trail of tears was to move from Georgia (in this case) to Oklahoma.

Here's a cool video from BrainPop about the trail of tears - [] This is a picture of a Cherokee Indian. John Ross who is a famous Cherokee Indian Chief he led the fight against removal. And Chief justce John Marshell, Made a Runling (A Ruling is a offical decision).He said it was against the law to force the Cherokee to move but President Andrew Jackson ingnored John Marshells ruling. And in 1838 he made the Cherokee travel the trail of tears. And the U.S.A. army also tried to make the Seminole Indians move and there leader was Chief Osceola he refused to give up his land and many Seminole helped him do many suprise attacks, but Chief Osceola was tricked into coming out to discuss peace. This result ended badly he was sent to jail after he was sent to jail he died in jail several months after he was put in and after he was put in jail the suprise attacks did not stop many Seminole Indians carried on Chief Oscelas fight.

__**Bibliography:**__ [] Page 370. This is a cool site of info. [] S.S. Book = The trail of tears osceola fights back { Making a new home} = When the Cherokee indians were kicked out of there land they moved to the missippi. Most of the Cherokee indians became farmers. They built there own roads, schools and churches. They even made there own newspapers, books and started there own alphabet, language and culture.

= Taking the trail of tears = Bewteen 1838 and 1839 15,000 Cherokee indians were sent to leave there homes. They traveled more that 800 miles by foot, boats and wagon.Many indians died they got sick starved or starved to death and got fevers.The trail of tears is called this because so many people died taking it.

= Osceloa fights back = The U.S.A army aslo tried to kick out the Seminole Indians to. They wouldn't move so they had to fight for there land and started a war. Chief Oscelas came out from where he was hiding and talked to the soldiers about peace but Chief Oscelas was put in jail after that. .

Heres the Chief Oscelas who was put in jail. Here's some indians on the trail of tears. This is a picture of a seminole Indian.

 * __Sequoya's Alphabet:__** Sequoya made a Alphabet for the Cherokee Indians he made eighty five symbols for each letter in the Cherokee language. Sequoya's Alphabet was also used for a newspaper called the Cherokee Phoenix the newspaper was first printed in 1828 is still printed today.