USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cherokee authorities estimate that 6, 000 men, women, and children die on the 1, 200-mile march called the Trail of Tears. Other Cherokee escape to North Carolina, where they elude capture and forced removal.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1838 and 1839 U.S. troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1836, the federal government drove the Creeks from their land for the last time: 3, 500 of the 15, 000 Creeks who set out for Oklahoma did not survive the trip.