What made the Cherokee Trail of Tears so brutal?

The Cherokee Trail of Tears resulted from the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota, an agreement signed under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which exchanged Indian land in the East for lands west of the Mississippi River, but which was never accepted by the elected tribal leadership or a majority.

Severe exposure, starvation and disease ravaged tribes during their forced migration to present-day Oklahoma. ... As many as 4,000 died of disease, starvation and exposure during their detention and forced migration through nine states that became known as the “Trail of Tears.”

the trail of tears was named that because of the indians whom were forced out of their homes and forced to go away and there was also sicknesses going around.

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