USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1831, nearly 16, 000 members of the Cherokee Nation were forced under armed guard to leave their native lands in the southeastern United States to trek more than 1, 000 miles to what eventually would become the state of Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scott and his troops forced the Cherokee into stockades at bayonet point while his men looted their homes and belongings. Then, they marched the Indians more than 1, 200 miles to Indian Territory.

Detailed explanation-3: -From these starting points, thousands of Cherokee traveled an average of 1, 000 miles to the lands they had received in the Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Most of the displaced Cherokee walked west on the roads, although some went by boat.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.