Trail of Tears
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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... Wikipedia
Start date: 1831
Location: Southeastern United States
End date: 1850
Deaths: Total: 13,200–16,700; See
Motive: Acquisition of Native American land east of the Mississippi River; Anti-Native American racism;
Perpetrators: United States federal government; United States Army; State militias
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