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Why did the state of Georgia begin auctioning off Cherokee land in 1828?

Prospectors wanted to mine for gold on Cherokee territory.

Georgians wanted to set up cotton plantations on the land.

The Cherokee were harboring enslaved people who escaped.

American settlers had begun to cross the Appalachians.

By 1820, most Indigenous nations east of the Mississippi River

were living side by side with settlers in peace.

had moved east to the Atlantic coast.

had been defeated by the US military.

had won most battles against the US military.

Which statement best describes the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

The act forcibly relocated eastern Indigenous people to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

The act forcibly removed territory from the Cherokee and auctioned it off to prospectors.

The act created a constitution for the five tribes that had been forcibly removed to Indian Territory.

The act stated that the Cherokee had signed a treaty to give up their lands.

How did Indigenous people react to American settlers in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

Most Indigenous people lived west of the Appalachians, so settlement had little effect on them.

Settlement affected Indigenous people very little, but they resented the arrival of explorers.

The two groups were trading partners, so both sides lived in peaceful coexistence.

American settlers and Indigenous people often clashed as settlement spread across the West during that era.

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