USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Trail of Tears. In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the “Trail of Tears, ” because of its devastating effects.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nunna daul Tsuny-“the trail where they cried.” The Indian Removal Act was spawned by the rapidly expanding population of new settlers which created tensions with the American Indian tribes.

Detailed explanation-3: -This map shows the routes followed west by the Cherokee Nation to reach “Indian Territory, ” now the state of Oklahoma, in the 1830s. The pink trail is the northern route.

Detailed explanation-4: -Monument at New Echota to the Cherokees who died along the trail. Guided by policies favored by President Andrew Jackson, who led the country from 1828 to 1837, the Trail of Tears (1837 to 1839) was the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation during the 1830s of Indigenous peoples of the Southeast region of the United States (including the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among others) to the so-called Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.