JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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a peace treaty surrendering to their land to the settlers
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a treaty asking to divide the lands equally
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a treaty in which they are given money and land in another territory. Native Americans were offered 7 million dollars and land in the West
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The agreement led to the forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. 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-2: -Negotiated in 1835 by a small group of Cherokee citizens without legal standing, challenged by the majority of the Cherokee nation and their elected government, the Treaty of New Echota was used by the United States to justify the removal of the Cherokee people along the Trail of Tears.
Detailed explanation-3: -Article 7 of the Treaty of New Echota is crystal clear-Cherokee Nation “shall be entitled to a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States whenever Congress shall make provision for the same.” For nearly two centuries, Congress has failed to honor this promise.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the departure of the Delegation, a contract was made by the Rev. John F. Schermerhorn, and certain individual Cherokee, purporting to be a “treaty, concluded at New Echota, in the State of Georgia, on the 29th day of December, 1835, by General William Carroll and John F.