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: -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. The agreement led to the forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Treaty of New Echota Images Though they had no legal right to represent the Cherokee Nation, some Cherokees signed the Treaty of New Echota with the U.S. government in December of 1835, ceding i all Cherokee lands in the East for lands west of the Mississippi River.

Detailed explanation-5: -Negotiated in 1835 by a minority party of Cherokees, challenged by the majority of the Cherokee people and their elected government, the Treaty of New Echota was used by the United States to justify the forced removal of the Cherokees from their homelands along what became known as the Trail of Tears.