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: -The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term “Trail of Tears” refers to the difficult journeys that the Five Tribes took during their forced removal from the southeast during the 1830s and 1840s. The Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole were all marched out of their ancestral lands to Indian Territory, or present Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60, 000 people of the “Five Civilized Tribes” between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.

Detailed explanation-5: -Treaty of New Echota Images Though they had no legal right to represent the Cherokee Nation, some Cherokees signed the Treaty of New Echota with the U.S. government in December of 1835, ceding i all Cherokee lands in the East for lands west of the Mississippi River.