Three. From the port on the Tennessee River, groups of Cherokee would leave by steamship to the Mississippi River, then south on the Mississippi to the Arkansas River. They followed the river to Fort Smith, on the border between Arkansas & Indian Territory.
The president during 1812 was James Madison, his presidential term was 1809 to 1817.
<span>By the criteria of Americans of that day, who knew nothing about "political correctness," it was entirely justifiable. They believed that their system was the best that had ever been invented and that it should be spread throughout the world without delay. (This is one of the reasons they supported foreign missionaries and "filibustering" expeditions.) The easiest way to spread it, obviously, was into contiguous regions, and thence into regions contiguous to those, and so on. One Congressman stated that he hoped to live to see the day when the Speaker of the House would recognize "the member from Canada, from Cuba, even the gentleman from Patagonia!"</span>
When our Founding Fathers sought inspiration in forming our government after the American Revolution, it was to the mother country of Great Britain -- at the time, the world’s most powerful parliamentary democracy -- that they turned. It may at first seem like a contradiction that the very country we had fought a bloody war to get away from was in fact the country that inspired so many of our political traditions. But to turn away from British traditions would, in a sense, be like turning away from our birthright.
