they have experienced tremendous growth and flourished as a people.
Shows that the Cherokee Nation survived removal and continued to grow and rebuild their community.
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In 1851, the Cherokee Nation established the Cherokee Female Seminary,
Shows thats the Cherokee rebuilt their community and continued developing education after being forcibly removed.
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The Cherokee Nation exhausted its options to resist removal
Shows thats the Cherokee Nation resistance persisted even as pressure for the U.S government increase.
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Though they had no legal right to represent the Cherokee Nation, some Cherokees signed the Treaty of New Echota
This shows that the treaty used to justify Cherokee removal was not supported by the entire Cherokee Nation.
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The Cherokee Nation tried many different strategies to avoid removal by the United States government.
The Cherokee actively resisted removal instead of simply agreeing to leave.
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Georgia held lotteries to give Cherokee land and gold rights to whites.
Shows that Cherokee land was being taken and given to white settlers, which supports the idea that land expansion was a major factor in removal.
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Every Cherokee man, woman or child must be in motion...
Shows that the U.S government enforced the removal of the Cherokee though military action.
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Most Cherokees wanted to stay on their land.
Shows that the removal was opposed by many Cherokee people and was not something that they willing wanted.
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Georgia increased its pressure on the federal government to release Cherokee lands for white settlement.
Shows that settlers wanted Cherokee land for settlement and pressured Cherokee land for settlement and pressured the government to remove them.
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the desires of its new citizens for more land
Shows a key factor behind the removal of the Cherokee.
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the removal of the Cherokee Nation from its ancestral homeland
Introduces the main event of the Trail of Tears. Reenforces that the Cherokee was forced to leave their homeland.
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