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The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.
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.
Nov 9, 2009 · Learn about the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to Oklahoma in the 1830s. Explore the causes, consequences and controversies of the Trail of Tears, a dark chapter in American history.
Aug 3, 2023 · Learn about the federal policy of Indian removal that forced thousands of Cherokees and other tribes to leave their lands and move west in the 1830s. Explore the hardships, deaths, and resistance of the Trail of Tears.
Jan 29, 2024 · Learn about the forced migration of the Cherokee and other Native American peoples from their ancestral lands to the west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s. Explore the map, video, and vocabulary related to this tragic episode in U.S. history.
Learn about the forced relocation of Native American peoples from the southeastern U.S. to Indian Territory in the 1830s. Explore the map of the main routes, the land and water distances, the notable places, and the casualties along the way.
Trail of Tears, Forced migration in the United States of the Northeast and Southeast Indians during the 1830s. The discovery of gold on Cherokee land in Georgia (1828–29) catalyzed political efforts to divest all Indians east of the Mississippi River of their property.
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