Question

What was the Trail of Tears? Who was impacted?

Explain the significance of Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia.

How did these cases relate to the Trail of Tears?

How did the Trail of Tears affect native populations at the time? How did the Trail of

Tears affect native populations in the future?

Imagine you were designing a museum exhibit about the Trail of Tears. What is the most important thing you would want museum visitors to learn from the exhibit?

Answer 1

The Trail of Tears was part of the Indian removal, a series of forced displacements and ethnic cleansing of approximately 60,000 Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.

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 of the Cherokees died.