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They believed if they didn't move peacefully, they would be moved by force.
Gold was discovered on Cherokee land.
Yes many Cherokee Indians were killed after refusing to give up their land to the builders of the transcontinental. they had to move away and they had to fight for their lives.:(
Gold was discovered on cherokee land.
The Trail of tears was when Cherokee Indians were forced to move into Indian territory or present-day Oklahoma.
White settlers wanted their land.
The Treaty of New Echota took away land from the Cherokee Indians. It also forced the Cherokee people to move west.
The Indian removal act
By having people who claimed to be "Cherokee" sign a treaty, and then having the courts say it didn't matter that they had no authority to sign it in the name of the Cherokee Nation - but you have to move anyway. The president then signed the removal act and forced them to move under the threat of death, then gave away or sold the land to Americans.
Gold had been discovered on the land where the Cherokee lived.
Andrew Jackson forced Indians to move in 1830
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