Trail of Tears

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According to the video the trail of tears, which speaks about the Cherokee people during 1828, who also lived prosperous and product lives. yet they were about to get invaded by  Georgia since they considered them as a threat. President Andrew Jackson as president of the United States regarding the Cherokees said "established in the midst of a superior race, they must disappear." They started to oppress the Cherokee people and taking away their rights from within the borders of the United States. They started to invade them since they started to find gold in their territory. The congress agreed, the bill which called for the removal of all five southern tribes. they were forced by the government to leave their land, and in the process trying to set up life in a strange land, a lot of them died. I feel like this was unfair beyond what are human values, by committing passive genocide and not taking accountability about it right away, yet taken a huge gap in history to solve this problem. The United states Congress in 1987 passed a bill to establish the trail of tears national historical trail. the National park service administered the protection, interpretation, and preservation of the trail.  At least from now with the evolved of mindset we can still see what's happening today as a recognizaiton to the Black lives matter movement, we can tell the government tries to opress the minorities on this country and trying to exterminate them since for most of Caucasians Americans, African- Americans are considered a threat to them. Which brings back the same mind set of monarchy. 

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