True. The Trail of Tears was indeed the result of the Indian Removal Act, which was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson in 1830. The act authorized the forced removal of numerous Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to designated Indian Territory out West, which is now present-day Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears refers to the journey made by these Native American tribes, such as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole, where thousands of them faced great hardships and loss of life due to exposure, hunger, disease, and mistreatment along the way.
