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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They believed it was too old.
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It would have put Indian Territory in Texas instead of modern-day Oklahoma.
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A small group of Cherokee signed it, but the rest of the Cherokee Nation did not agree to it,
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The U.S. government failed to make the payments to the Cherokee required by the treaty
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Detailed explanation-1: -Students should discover that the document is a petition to the Senate. The authors (the document is signed by 3, 352 Cherokee) urged the Senate not to ratify the Treaty of New Echota because the Cherokee leaders who signed the treaty on behalf of the Cherokees were not authorized to do so.
Detailed explanation-2: -A majority of Cherokee people considered the Treaty of New Echota fraudulent, and in February 1836 the Cherokee National Council voted to reject it. Led by Principal Chief John Ross, opponents submitted a petition, signed by thousands of Cherokee citizens, urging Congress to void the agreement.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Since the early 1800s, the Cherokee Nation tried to protect their lands by assimilating into the European-American culture as much as possible. However, when Andrew Jackson became president in 1828, that tactic rapidly changed.