History of the Trail of Tears, Part II

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In the second of two parts, what was once a voluntary resettlement program becomes a violent, forced relocation under the leadership of President Andrew Jackson.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How Stuff Works.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Fark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's over there.
0:47.2	And this is part two of Trail of Tears, which we already did part one.
0:52.2	If you haven't heard that, I would strongly recommend you go listen to that one first.
0:56.0	Yes.
0:57.0	And just a 15 second recap of part one.
1:02.0	We earn 1830 roughly and America is getting along great with Native Americans and they say,
1:10.4	why don't we all just live together and we can all just share wealth.
1:13.6	The end.
1:14.6	Oh wait, that's not what was happening at all.
1:17.0	No.
1:18.0	I just wanted more land, Indians had land, Americans felt that the Indians weren't
1:22.4	putting it to good enough use and used that to morally justify forcing them to leave
1:27.8	their land.
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