AP Success - AP US History: Cherokee Petition of Protest

This excerpt is from the Cherokee Petition Protesting Removal in 1836, which was written by representatives of the Cherokee nation living east of the Mississippi River. The petition was submitted to the United States government to protest their forced removal from their ancestral lands, which was authorized by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

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The undersigned representatives of the Cherokee nation...submit...the following statement of facts: It will be seen from the numerous subsisting treaties between the Cherokee nation and the United States...the United States...received the Cherokees and their nation into favor and protection...the chiefs and warriors...stipulated...that the said Cherokee nation will not hold any treaty with any foreign power...the United States solemnly guaranteed to said nations all their lands not ceded, and pledged the faith of the government, that “all white people who have intruded...on the lands reserved for the Cherokees, shall be removed by the United States...The Cherokees were happy and prosperous...they made rapid advances in civilization...An instrument purporting to be a treaty with the Cherokee people, has recently been made public by the President of the United States...This instrument...is fraudulent...made by unauthorized individuals, without the sanction, and against the wishes of the great body of the Cherokee people. Upwards of fifteen thousand of those people have protested against it...The delegation would respectfully call the attention of your honorable body to their memorial and protest...submitted to the Senate of the United States, on the subject of the alleged treaty...

"Cherokee Petition Protesting Removal, 1836." American Yawp.

Question 1

Short answer

Briefly identify one promise the federal government made to the Cherokee people in the early 19th century.

Question 2

Short answer

Briefly explain one way the federal government responded to the petition.

Question 3

Short answer

Briefly explain one historical trend or event that influenced the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

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