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: -Most of the Cherokee involved in the Trail of Tears took the northern route, marked in pink on the map. This route ran from southeastern Tennessee northwestward across the state through Nashville and then through Hopkinsville, Kentucky; what is now Anna, Illinois; and Jackson, Missouri.

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 forced relocations and ethnic cleansings of the Indian nations have sometimes been referred to as “death marches", in particular when referring to the Cherokee march across the Midwest in 1838, which occurred via a predominantly land route. Indians who had the means initially provided for their own removal.

Detailed explanation-5: -The path the Cherokee took west has been called the Cherokee Trail of Tears due to the hardships they faced and the fact that over 4, 000 Cherokee died during the journey.