Question

What was the effect of the "Trail of Tears" on Native Americans?

A. It helped end the American-Indian War.
B. They were forced to move into Indian Territory.
C. Native Americans were enslaved by American farmers.
D. They were given land through the Homestead Act of 1862.

Answer 1

Answer: B (They were forced to move into Indian Territory.)

Answer 2

The answer is B. They were forced to move into Indian Territory. The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern U.S. to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory.