USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ratified in 1835, the Treaty of New Echota led to the forced removal of Cherokee people from their ancestral lands to Indian Territory in the West-a migration known as the Trail of Tears.

Detailed explanation-2: -Four of the powerful Cherokee men who eventually signed the Treaty of New Echota-Major Ridge, his son John Ridge, and his nephews Elias Boudinot and Stand Watie-were doing everything “right” by the standards of the white government leaders they wanted to appease.

Detailed explanation-3: -The humiliated Indians could win peace only by surrendering vast tracts of territory in North and South Carolina at the Treaty of DeWitt’s Corner (May 20, 1777) and the Treaty of Long Island of Holston (July 20, 1777).

Detailed explanation-4: -On December 29, 1835, U.S. government officials and about 500 Cherokee Indians claiming to represent their 16, 000-member tribe, met at New Echota, Georgia, and signed a treaty.