Question

Why did government officials want to relocate Native Americans to the West?
- What was the Trail of Tears?
- Why did the state of Georgia want to relocate the Cherokee and what did the Cherokee do in response?
- What Native American groups were affected by the Indian Removal Act? Where were they relocated?


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Answer 1

Answer:

Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians' land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River.