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Why weren't Indians put on trains instead of walking for their trek from Georgia to Oklahoma otherwise known as the Trail of Tears?
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The transcontinental lines had not been developed yet. The South had few railroads compared to the Northeast. There was no direct line to the area of Oklahoma. It was cheaper and quicker to move the Indians by marching them west. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson authorized the Indian Removal Act and ordered the tribes to move west of the Mississippi. The Cherokee Nation argued their case in the courts and two Supreme Court decisions, Cherokee Nation vs Georgia, 1831, and Worcester vs Georgia, 1832, seemed to challenge the constitutionality of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Ignoring the Court’s decisions and yielding to the pressure from Americans in the area, President Jackson ordered the army to round up the Indians in the area and move them to the Indian Territories in the west. During the winter of 1838-39, 14,000 Indians were marched through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. About 4,000 died along the route, from hunger, disease, and exposure. Some Indians avoided being rounded up and hid in the mountains of North Carolina. Their descendants made up today’s Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee remembered the march as the “trail where they cried,” referring to Cherokee and other tribe members who suffered on the march. History has recorded the event as The Trail of Tears.
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