I think they did not want to give up
The answer is D. A Supreme court Decision to move the Cherokee west of the Mississippi River. Here is text from Wikipedia,
"Indian removal was a genocide in the 19th century whereby Native Americans were forced by the United States government to leave their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River, specifically to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, modern Oklahoma)."
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C. the public wanted price regulations imposed on the railroad industry
The west African Kingdom of Mali grew in wealth and power by controlling the trading of gold and salt.
