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Instead, those Indians who wanted to go west simply went, thereby relieving eastern Cherokees of a pro-removal faction. S. negotiators of individuals who might be inclined to sign another removal treaty. Removal Opposition to removal, in fact, increased among Cherokees who remained in the East. One reason the Cherokees formalized their political system, recorded their laws, and wrote their constitution was to protect their homeland. The National Council served notice to the United States in 1819 that the Cherokees would cede no more land.

Treaty commissioners negotiated with minority chiefs and virtually bribed them into signing a treaty. S. government agreed to pay wealthy Cherokees the full value of their improvements—that is, their houses, barns, fences, and orchards. ” The United States also pledged to pay the cost of their removal to the West. S. commissioners offered Cherokees who lived within the ceded territory an opportunity to remain on their land. S. citizen could receive a reservation of 640 acres. A reservation was a privately owned tract of land within ceded territory.

This treaty provided for the exchange of all Cherokee territory in the Southeast for a tract of land in what is today northeastern Oklahoma. Fifteen thousand Cherokees, almost the entire population, signed a petition protesting this treaty, which had been negotiated by an unauthorized minority. S. Senate ratified the document. The treaty gave the Cherokees two years to go west. Confident that justice would ultimately triumph, the Cherokees made no preparations to move.

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