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Why did Southerners want Native American lands in southeastern states such as Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama in the 1830s?

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Southerners wanted Native American land to expand and benefit from the production of the profitable farm and plantation land.

So, they got the Federal government to evict the Native Americans.

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