Why did the Cherokee's cry on the Trail of Tears?

Answer 1

The Cherokee people were given a very easy choice before the Trail of Tears, either:

1) Leave their tribal Homelands without any clothing or personal possessions at gunpoint, or 2) Be shot and killed.

Answer 2

They were being forcibly removed from their homelands and made to travel through the winter to a new land in Oklahoma. Some 4000 died along the way.

Answer 3

Because a lot of there people died. The native Americans walked for hundreds of miles and they were dying of starvation and thirst and smallpox from infected blankets they were given.

Answer 4

Native Americans were forced down the Trail of Tears by americans sent by the President at the time. It was sad and lots of indian children died.