USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation (Teaching with Historic Places) This lesson is part of the National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) program. The caravan was ready to move out. The wagons were lined up.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized the president to negotiate removal treaties. With Congress and the president pursuing a removal policy, the Cherokee Nation, led by John Ross, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene on its behalf and protect it from Georgia’s trespasses.

Detailed explanation-3: -The removal, or forced emigration, of Cherokee Indians occurred in 1838, when the U.S. military and various state militias forced some 15, 000 Cherokees from their homes in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee and moved them west to Indian Territory (now present-day Oklahoma).

Detailed explanation-4: -The Trail of Tears is the name given to the forced migration of the Cherokee people from their ancestral lands in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina to new territories west of the Mississippi River.