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Trail of Tears, an Epic card
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of about 60,000 Native Americans of the "Five Civilized Tribes", including their black slaves, between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 183
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 670,000
Power 183 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Trail of Tears quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Trail of Tears card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated Indian reserve.
Answer
relocated. The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated Indian reserve. From the Trail of Tears article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Maroon 5. Maroon 5 92 · Trail of Tears 89 · Justinian I 86 · Brian Epstein 83 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As part of Indian removal, members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to newly designated Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
- The Cherokee removal in 1838 was the last forced removal east of the Mississippi and was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush.
- The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated Indian reserve.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Trail of Tears article was read about 670,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Trail of Tears
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Trail of Tears (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cculber007, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
