Trail Of Tears Research Paper

Words: 208
Pages: 1

Successful treaties with the British Crown and the United States reduced the Cherokee Nation to its original territory. Deployed troops under General Winfield Scott were to forcibly gather up Cherokee people into relocation camps and remove them overland to the Reservation west of the Mississippi, what is now called Trail of Tears. Some of the 4,000 Cherokees who were forcibly removed from their land died in camps or along the Trail of Tears. Later on, a new treaty stated that the Cherokee Nation was one nation with a bunch of lands now occupied by the Cherokee nation. Took place in Trans-Mississippi and Western Theaters. Union forces abandoned forts joining the Cherokee Nation for bases in Kansas. Confederate forces in Texas threatened to