USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1835, a few self-appointed representatives of the Cherokee nation negotiated the Treaty of New Echota, which traded all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi-roughly 7 million acres-for $5 million, relocation assistance and compensation for lost property.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Treaty of New Echota gave the Cherokees $5 million and land in present-day Oklahoma in exchange for their 7 million acres of ancestral land.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.

Detailed explanation-4: -It passed by a single vote. Twenty Cherokee men, none of them elected officials of the tribe, signed the treaty. It gave all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi to the U.S. in exchange for $5 million and new homelands in Indian Territory.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was under these polarized circumstances that the Treaty of New Echota was signed in December of 1835, declaring that all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi River would be ceded for $5 million and giving them new land in current-day Oklahoma.