The Trail of Tears Was the

The Trail of Tears was the

A) massacre of the Powhatan tribes along the Appalachian Trail.
B) route of the slave trade from the Carolinas to Mississippi and Alabama.
C) southern name for the route of General Sherman in his destructive siege and burning of Charleston.
D) exile to Texas of settlers who left to establish the Republic.
E) forced resettlement of Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw peoples to the west of the Mississippi River.