About 46,000 did.
The people on The Trail Of Tears were relocated because the Cherokee forced then to leave.
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.
This was a brutal event for Native Americans. They were walked in the dead of winter from Georgia to Oklahoma. Men, women, children, sick, old, and babies were forced to leave their ancestral lands. They died from disease, injuries, and starvation. There is a reason it is called Trail of Tears.
The cherokees were forced to go on it.
Many groups of Native Americans were forced to leave their ancestral lands and were moved to reservations in the 1800's.
The Native Americans had to leave their land and walk about 2,000 miles.
The Cherokee Trail of Tears - the most famous but just one of many "trails of tears"
The people on The Trail Of Tears were relocated because the Cherokee forced then to leave.
This was a brutal event for Native Americans. They were walked in the dead of winter from Georgia to Oklahoma. Men, women, children, sick, old, and babies were forced to leave their ancestral lands. They died from disease, injuries, and starvation. There is a reason it is called Trail of Tears.
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.
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Trail of Tears
The long and often fatal journey of these Native American tribes is known as the Trail fo Tears. The Cherokee nation was forced to leave their land and were made to march 1200 miles. Many died from starvation, the cold, and diseases. About 4000 died on the journey
the indians were forced by andrew jackson to go on the trail of tears.