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Trail of Tears
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
Location: Southeastern United States
Start date: 1831
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
The term "Trail of Tears" refers to the difficult journeys that the Five Tribes took during their forced removal from the southeast during the 1830s and ...