Sample Sentences forTrail of Tears (editor-reviewed)
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We studied the Trail of Tears to understand how thousands of Native Americans were forced to march west, with many dying along the way.Trail of Tears = the 1830s forced removal—especially of the Cherokee—from their homelands to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), during which many died
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The Chickasaw were forced to walk the Trail of Tears, too. (source)
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And so they called it the Trail of Tears. (source)
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There were sidebar buttons, so that if you didn't know what Crime and Punishment was, or the Theory of Relativity, or the Trail of Tears, or Madame Bovary, or the Hundred Years' War, or The Flight into Egypt, you could double-click and get an illustrated rundown, in two choices: R for children, PON for Profanity, Obscenity, and Nudity. (source)
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Because thousands of native people died on the Trail of Tears, shouldn't we call it a 'genocide' instead of a 'forced march'? (source)
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They called it the Trail of Tears for it sounds romantic and speaks of the sorrow of those who stood by the Trail. (source)
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And so they call it the Trail of Tears.
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Trail of Tears = the 1830s forced removal—especially of the Cherokee—from their homelands to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), during which many died
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