THE TRAIL OF TEARS: THE SUPREME COURT RULED IN THEIR FAVOR. JACKSON SENT THE ARMY ANYWAY.
Episode 134 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the Trail of Tears — the forced removal of the Five Civilized Tribes from their homelands in the American Southeast under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Cherokee Nation's successful Supreme Court case that Andrew Jackson ignored, and the march that killed between 4,000 and 16,000 people.
This episode covers who the Five Civilized Tribes were and why the term itself tells a story, how the Cherokee built a legal case all the way to the Supreme Court and won in Worcester v. Georgia in 1832, why Chief Justice Marshall's…
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