TRAIL OF TEARS: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Were the Founding Fathers to blame for the Trail of Tears?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) decides who is to blame for the Trail of Tears. She is joined by Special Guest Tess Paras, Fact Checker Smith and Producer Lund. On the board this week: The Founding Big Boys, President Andrew Jackson, The American Revolution and Entitled White Settlers.
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| 0:25.0 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:29.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation |
| 0:32.0 | into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 0:40.1 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 0:43.8 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest |
| 0:49.0 | disasters and find out who's to blame. |
| 0:55.0 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 0:58.0 | Not on my watch. |
| 0:59.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith, |
| 1:02.0 | and I am The Alarmist. |
| 1:07.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into The Al alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk |
| 1:14.6 | about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we'll |
| 1:18.8 | be discussing one of America's saddest historical tragedies, The Trail of Tears. |
| 1:24.0 | Here's what you need to know. |
| 1:26.4 | In 1830, approximately 125,000 Native Americans lived in Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Florida. |
| 1:37.0 | They occupied millions of acres of land that for centuries had been inhabited by their |
| 1:42.4 | ancestors. But by the end of the decade, the Cherokee, |
| 1:46.3 | Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations had been almost completely wiped out of the southeastern United States. |
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