The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 ...

The Trail of Tears is the collection of routes the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles people traveled to ...

8. Visit the Digital History and Trail of Tears site with students for a collection of several public primary sources surrounding the Trail of Tears historical event. (There are photographs ...

This allowed Jackson to orchestrate one of the greatest ethnic cleansings in US history, the Trail of Tears. From roughly 1830 to 1850, an estimated 60,000 people of the Cherokee, Chickasaw ...

Some four thousand died on what became known as the Trail of Tears. During the treaty’s unveiling at the museum, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker pointed out that this chapter of ...

ARROYO: In the case of Andy -- In the case of Andy Jackson, really quickly, they say, "Look, he created the Trail of Tears, he attacked the Indians" -- here's the reality, he went to war with the ...

almost 15,000 Cherokees were forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland in the southern Appalachians to the Indian Territory on a journey that would later become known as the 'Trail of Tears.' ...

Nicholas, Tom, Ari Medoff, Raven Smith, and Sam Subramanian. "The Indian Removal Act and the 'Trail of Tears'." Harvard Business School Case 812-079, December 2011. (Revised February 2019.) ...