JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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southeastern
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Detailed explanation-1: -Though the Trail of Tears began with the forcing of individuals from their homes, the National Park Service interprets the trail as primarily having three trailheads–the emigration depots at Fort Cass (near Charleston, Tennessee), Ross’s Landing (near Chattanooga, Tennessee) and near Fort Payne (Alabama).
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward.
Detailed explanation-4: -On March 26, 1839, Cherokee Indians came to the end of the “Trail of Tears, ” a forced death march from their ancestral home in the Smoky Mountains to the Oklahoma Territory.