In 1838, after pressuring the Cherokee to sign treaties giving up their lands, the federal government

In 1838, the federal government used the U.S. Army to remove the Cherokee who had not left voluntarily. Soldiers forced them from their homes and marched them west, beginning the forced migration known as the Trail of Tears. The answer is “sent the US Army to force Cherokee resistors to march west.”

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