Why did the Cherokee Indians have to move from place to place?

Answer 1

Andrew Jackson believed that Native Americans should accept white culture or be moved to western territories. Jackson didn't think that they could have their own governments within the borders of the U.S.

Answer 2

The Cherokees did not willingly move but were forced to move from their homelands, by a US Law called "The Indian Removal Act," making the long trek to "Indian Territory" (later called "Oklahoma" a Choctaw word meaning "Land of the Red Man"), being escorted by the military & state militia to ensure compliance. This was a terrible thing, one of many perpetrated on a people who had been beneficial to early America. Approximately 17,000 were forced to move and approximately 4,000 died from hunger and exposure during the trip.

Answer 3

The Cherokee did not actually move from place to place, anymore than any other agricultural society. Cherokee's were forced to move by the Indian Removal Act, along the Trail of Tears, to modern day Oklahoma.

Answer 4

The Trail of Tears was because the government policy of the removal of Native Americans from ancestral lands to reservations. The idea that it was Manfest Destiny that God wanted the people of the United States to settle the land despite the fact that Native Americans were living on the lands.

Answer 5

so the white settlers can get more land to grow farm. And didn't want the Indians to get in there way of doing there work.

Answer 6

White settlers wanted the land the Cherokee had farmed and developed

Answer 7

Um, the government forced them to move to take over their land. New settelers were coming in, they needed more land.

Answer 8

Political greed, corruption in Andrew Jacksons administration,wealthy land

grabbers with political hush money, and the same thing at the State of

Georgia level.

Answer 9

The trail of tears