USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -(A later 2022 Supreme Court decision rolled back some provisions of the 2020 court finding.) The Trail of Tears-actually a network of different routes-is over 5, 000 miles long and covers nine states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Detailed explanation-2: -While changed from its days as a ferry landing and starting point for many of the Cherokee, Ross’s Landing has an outdoor Trail of Tears exhibit. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cherokee Nation inhabited the area in and around the Appalachian Mountains which includes the states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. The Indian Removal Act was signed into order in 1830, but the Cherokees did not begin to move off their land until 1835 through 1839.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -In 1838, the United States government forcibly removed more than 16, 000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (today known as Oklahoma). The impact to the Cherokee was devastating.