In 1832, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had to negotiate with Indigenous people to acquire their lands. As a result, the US government

The 1832 ruling affirmed that the federal government—not individual states—had authority to deal with Indigenous nations such as the Cherokee. The government used treaty negotiations to pursue Cherokee land and pressured the Cherokee to sign treaties allowing removal. So the best answer is “pressured the Cherokee to sign treaties”; the ruling did not lead to a policy of preventing them from leaving or paying them handsomely to move.

AI-written and checked against the verified answer.