Cherokee Trail of Tears

Cherokee Trail of Tears

By, Jun Shin

As written in the Amendments and proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. All men should have the right to pursuit of happiness, privacy, property, and the right to life. But in the Trail of Tears, Americans broke these unalienable rights and violated the Cherokee Indians. The Cherokees were savagely forced out of there territory . after that they were forced to march 1,200 miles to present day Oklahoma from Georgia. Plus when Indians complained they were utterly ignored. This Removal Act of the Indians violated the First amendment, the Second amendment, and their pursuit of happiness

So the first thing that i will talk about that was violated against the Cherokee indians was the right to privacy and property. Before the Trail of Tears happened, white soldiers that were ordered to remove the Indians dragged Cherokees out of their homes and if they resisted they were beaten. this violated their privacy because the soldiers just came into their houses without permission. this act also violated their property because they came into their land to get into their home. and because the soldiers sabatoged their homes. Obviously this was against the law and that Andrew Jackson, the leader of the Removal commited a crime and violated a law that his own people had made.

the second thing that i will talk about is the violation of the right to life of the Cherokee indians. on the trail of Tears soldiers didnt give the cheokees time to rest or the right to a full meal. this caused the death of many Cherokee Indians. also Cherokees were forced to march 1200 miles, so many died from exposure and disease. and so the Trail of Tears caused the violation of the right to life of the Indians. there were also more ways the Indians died. soldiers sometimes got greedy of some few prosperous indians and murdered the owners of treasure to steal and maybe become proserous from the indians belongings.