3. Determining Cause and Effect Why were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and other Native Americans forced to migrate from their homes to the Indian Territory?

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The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush.Approximately 2,000–8,000 of the 16,543 relocated Cherokee perished along the way

Explanation:

With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the U.S. Congress had given Jackson authority to negotiate removal treaties, exchanging Indian land in the East for land west of the Mississippi River. Jackson used the dispute with Georgia to put pressure on the Cherokee to sign a removal treaty.

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the south did not want the federal laws to overrule the state laws.