Answer: As the population of the United States moved closer to the Cherokee Nation, Cherokee leaders agreed to give up some of their land to the newly arriving Americans.
Explanation:
They did this for two reasons:
First, they wanted to be seen as reasonable people who treated these Americans as their friends and neighbors, not as their enemies.
Second, they did not want to fight a war. Native Americans who went to war to keep their lands had almost always been defeated. Sometimes the U.S. Army attacked them. More often, they were just outnumbered by the ever-growing population of American settlers and realized they would not be able to defeat them.
