USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the late 1820s, gold was discovered on Cherokee land. Click on the image below to see a map of where it was found. People from the neighboring state of Georgia wanted that gold. Georgia passed laws that took away Cherokee rights and started giving away Cherokee land to Georgians.

Detailed explanation-3: -Removal operations began first in Georgia. On May 26, 1838, General Floyd’s military companies swiftly rounded up more than 3, 000 Cherokees from their north Georgia homes and sent them to the Tennessee camps. By late June, the last of the Georgia Cherokees had been sent from the state.

Detailed explanation-4: -Between May 26 and June 15, 1838, US soldiers rounded up and removed the citizens of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia. To prepare for its eviction of several thousand Cherokees, the army established fourteen removal posts in the state, clearing local woodlands and altering landscapes.

Detailed explanation-5: -So in the late 1820s, Georgia started passing what we call the harassment laws and they were a series of laws that were passed that extended its jurisdiction over the Cherokee Nation. Cherokees were not allowed to mine gold on their own land, they were not allowed to meet in council, it was considered illegal.