USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The “Trail of Tears” refers specifically to Cherokee removal in the first half of the 19th century, when about 16, 000 Cherokees were forcibly relocated from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) west of the Mississippi.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -What was the Trail of Tears? 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.