Question

What was one result of American Indian removal for the Cherokee?

Answer 1

The Cherokee struggled to support themselves in Indian Territory.

Explanation:

• Due to the Georgian state of power, US troops deported Cherokee Indians from their ancestral/native homeland in the South East in 1838 and 1839 and brought them into the Indian Territory of Oklahoma today.
• The deportation of the Cherokee was the result of the demand for arable land during the rapid increase in cotton cultivation in the south-east, the discovery of gold and racial harm to American Indians caused by many white southern peoples.
• White people in Georgia & other Southern States who denied the Cherokee Nation accepting the Cherokees as social equals persuaded their politicians to capture their lands. The acquisition in 1803 of Louisiana from France gave US President Thomas Jefferson an idea which he had long considered to implement: the deportation of the eastern tribes afar the Mississippi River
• Jefferson proposed that Native Americans might acculturate themselves, preserve sovereignty and live independently of American infringements. Though majority of Cherokees rejected Jefferson 's requests, in 1810 & 1817-19 small groups moved to the west of the Arkansas River.
• During their exodus to Indian Territory, Cherokees lost about a quarter of their population to disease, starvation and hardship.