USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nearly 17, 000 Choctaws made the move to what would be called Indian Territory and then later Oklahoma. About 2, 500–6, 000 died along the trail of tears. Approximately 5, 000–6, 000 Choctaws remained in Mississippi in 1831 after the initial removal efforts.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.