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…showed last 75 words of 1417 total…division sold all of the nation's land for five million dollars, the anti-removal side was furious. They refused to leave the land until 1838 when they were "escorted" by the American army. The long journey became known as the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was filled with emotional hardships and physical exhaustion. Of the eighteen thousand Cherokees who started the journey, four thousand of them had died either on the trail or in stockades.