TEXT:Abraham Lincoln.If you work hard, you can do anything you wanna do. The possibilities are endless. To me, that was the American dream, as a ki d. Lincoln's family and thousands like theirs have settled the West in four generations. President Thomas Jefferson thought it would take 1,000. The forests are cleared: five acres a family, a year. In 1800, 23 million acres of Indiana is wilderness. In 60 years, it's tamed, flat, fertile farmland. But there is more than forest to clear. It's always been one of the deep flaws of the American imagination, that they can't imagine a future for American-Indian people as Americans. American -Indian people have to imagine that for themselves, and that's the hard part. Keep walking. 1830. Frontier president Andrew Jackson declares a new policy, a policy that America will maintain for more than 100 years. The forced relocation of American tribal people onto reservations. You, keep moving! After years of Supreme Court battles, the bill passes Congress by a single vote. Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, all forced off their nations by the point of a bayonet. An episode in the conquest of the West that even some of the soldiers taking part find shameful. US Army Private John G. Burnett writes: The sufferings of the Cherokee were awful. The trail of the exiles was a trail of death. They slept in the wagons and on the ground without fire. I saw as many as 20 die in a single night of pneumonia, cold exposure. Move along. Move along. The march of 1,000 miles becomes the Trail of Tears. It's a shameful act in American history and it's, in its own way, sort of an iconic act because it really symbolizes what happen ed to the Native Americans.

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