The term "Trail of Tears" refers to the difficult journeys that the Five Civilized Tribes took during their forced removal from the southeast during the 1830s and 1840s. The Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole were all marched out of their ancestral lands to Indian Territory, or present Oklahoma.
Most of the members of the Republican Party, guided by Abraham Lincoln, were supportive of abolishing slavery. On economic thought they supported conservatism and corporate freedom. Being pro-business, they supported the gold standard, railroad expansion and later, foreign policy expansion.
