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Trail of Tears, the
     
Trail of Tears, the
the path that the Cherokees travelled in the autumn and winter of 1838 to 1839 because the US government forced them to move away from their homes in the southeast US to reservations west of the Mississippi River. The journey was extremely long, cold, and difficult, and about 4000 Cherokees died.
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