Those Cherokee that refused to honor their removal treaty with the United states of America voluntarily, were forced by the army to vacate their lands.
The <u>Indian Removal Act</u> was created in 1830 and took numerous years to complete, the main idea was to move Natives to the west, in the new land the United States had gotten from the <u>Louisiana Purchase</u>. Many Indians were obviously very upset by this, and wanted to fight for their land, but many decided it was not a good bone to pick and they would ultimately lose against the United States government if they tried to stand their ground. Native Americans were marched by armed United States soldiers, many miles to reservations. The Cherokee were the most resistant to move to Oklahoma and many <em>did not</em>, the Cherokee ended up making a deal with Andrew Jackson called the<u> Treaty of New Echota</u>, where they would get 5 million dollars and their own land in Oklahoma, in exchange for their land. Some Cherokee leaders agreed to this, while many <em>did not</em>, and ended up staying in their homeland. Andrew Jackson ended up having to send troops to force the Cherokee out of their land, and ended up putting them in camps. The march they did is famously called the <u>Trail of Tears</u>, as <em>many </em>Cherokee ended up dying from weather circumstances, disease, and even starvation.
