As a shield volcano, Olympus Mons resembles the shape of the large volcanoes making up the Hawaiian Islands. The edifice is about 600 km (370 mi) wide. Because the mountain is so large, with complex structure at its edges, allocating a height to the structure is difficult.
A Brief History of the Trail of Tears. Migration from the original Cherokee Nation began in the early 1800âs. Some Cherokees, wary of white encroachment, moved west on their own and settled in other areas of the country.
info on the Trail of Tears. Introduction. At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida--land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States.