Question

The ____ was a forced agreement between the Cherokees and the federal government. Around 20,000 Cherokees were marched by US troops and state militias to the ____ at gunpoint.

Answer 1

Treaty of New Echota

The Indian territory

Explanation:

• In 1835, the government officials signed a treaty with the Cherokee meeting at New Echota, Georgia.
• The agreement forced the removal of Cherokees from their ancestral lands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
• The Treaty gave the Cherokees land (Oklahoma) in exchange for million acres of ancestral land.
• Cherokee Indians forced to walk, which became known as the Trail of Tears.

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