Marked New Echota, Georgia

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Trail of Tears

Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the United States forced the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations from their homelands to land west of the Mississippi. Thousands died on the way.

Place
New Echota, Georgia · Red Clay, Tennessee · Tahlequah, OklahomaThe Americas
Laid out as
A migrationPeople on the move: where they set out from, where they went, and what they found.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

From New Echota, Georgiato Tahlequah, Oklahoma

  1. IThe Cherokee Nation
  2. IISequoyah’s syllabary
  3. IIIThe Removal Act
  4. IVWorcester v. Georgia
  5. VThe forced march
  6. VIRebuilding in the west

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Sequoyah
  • John Ross
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Major Ridge

Objects

  • The Cherokee Phoenix newspaper
  • Sequoyah’s syllabary

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1830 to 1850. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?