Answer the following question using the Chapter 16 file from the book The Rise of American Democracy-Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz and the Lecture 13 Slides, both in the Files Section The Trail of Tears represents a horrific chapter in American history. The forced removal of over 30,000 Cherokee from their traditional homes to reservations in the Oklahoma Territory is taught today as a violation of Native American land rights. But why did violence breakout between white settlers and Cherokee in the late 1820s and 1830s. Having lost the Ear of 1812 many leading tribes, especially Iroquois, Huron and Cherokee had signed separate peace treaties with the U.S. There had not been any large scale violence on the frontier in a generation as southern whites traded and even intermarried with their Cherokee neighbors. The Cherokee had taken great strides towards adopting Anglo-American culture and religion. Why then did this violence spring up and become so divisive so quickly?
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