What is one reason the Cherokees were removed to Oklahoma during the infamous "Trail of Tears"? A) fear of Cherokee attacks on w
hite settlers B) Cherokee leaders signed away the rights of members of their tribes C) the Cherokee moved there voluntarily to escape discrimination in Georgia D) a Supreme Court decision to move the Cherokee west of the Mississippi River
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)."
Anger and violence and resentment. and now we feel bad for them and the African Americans and our treatment of them for the past has created the apathetic and pathetic subcultures that are native and African American
