Rocio Martin Fernandez
HIST 1377
April 7th 2014
“Land, Growth, and Justice: The Removal of the Cherokees”
Why the Cherokees should not have been removed from their lands?
The white population in the United States was moving towards the west region
looking for new resources and land. The population was growing up really fast so they
needed more land to live. They tried to convince the Cherokees to move through wars
and treaties, but none of this worked. So , “In the spring of 1838, General Winfield
Scott and several units of the U.S Army (including artillery regiments) were deployed to
the Southeast to collect Native Americans as Cherokees and remove them to lands west
of the Mississippi River”1.The removal of the Cherokees led to a lot of controversial
questions and debates between Americans and the Native Americans.
