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Indian Removal From Georgia

While the African-American people were forced into incomprehensible slavery here in the South, they never had to face government sponsored genocide nor were they gathered up and sent on a "leaky boat to Africa". However the native Americans were considered nothing more than an obstacle to the white men, thus they became the victims of Andrew Jackson's piece of legislation called the "Indian Removal Act". To enforce the Indian Removal the U.S. government sent in 7,000 troops, who forced the Cherokees into stockades at bayonet point. They were not allowed time to gather their belongings, and as they left, whites looted their homes. Then began the Trail of Tears march, in which thousands of Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to the western lands.

Indian Removal from Georgia - Trail Where They Cried