Why were the Indians removed?

Answer 1

This question about removal of any indigenous people from their homeland is always difficult to answer. Read about the "Manifest Destiny" of the European people and you will encounter a belief that the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific was promised by a higher creator to the European immigrants. Actual removal was powered by greed. The lands of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia were good for cotton, tobacco and other cash crops. The Cherokee controlled over 100,000 square miles at one time. The ones in power assumed that removal to a new land west of the Mississippi river was of no consequence and passed the Indian Removal Act in Congress. The Cherokee organized as a sovereign nation and was forced to sign a treaty that caused the "Trail of Tears" from Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina to Oklahoma. Over 16,000 Native Americans were forced to go and 4,000 died on the way from malnutrition and exsposure. The winter of 1838-1839 was one of the worst.

Answer 2

the caucasians lliked the land they were on and wanted to use it, so they sent them to reservations where nobody wanted to live/where they would be away from the whites

Answer 3

European colonists had other uses for the land.