Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's voter registration drive affected the passage of civil rights legislation by putting a face to American citizens who had not voted previously. Scare tactics by the Klan were no longer enough to discount the millions of black citizens who were denied their right to vote.
Because it was a church day <span>On Sundays the military relaxed discipline
somewhat, allowing soldiers and sailors to go on leaving for the weekend,
or to sleep in an extra hour in the morning.</span>
The inference you can make is that it was winter time and that their crops or food source died down and they could no longer farm.
Chinese americans moved west and also the Cherokee Indians back than where they were forced to move west then they got killed and that is why they call it the trail of tears because some who made it to the west and others who didn't, they call it the trail of tears because they still got killed either way.