Answer
White settlers wanted the Cherokees' land.
Step-by-step explanation:
Indians were being forced from their land because the United States believed that the Indians right to the land was insubordinate to their own. Also since the U.S.'s force was superior to that of the Native American's they could out gun them and take the land without much struggle. The Cherokee Indians were forced to move west in an event historically called the "trail of Tears" because the white man wanted their land, and they thought there was gold on their land.