Question

in order to ensure that the cherokees would be removed, an enrollment policy was instituted by the federal government which was designed to provide a fair, safe, and humane way to entice the cherokees to remove to the western lands.

Answer 1

The purported enrollment policy aimed to facilitate the removal of the Cherokee Nation to western lands in a purportedly equitable, secure, and compassionate manner.

Explanation

The enrollment policy, a facet of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, ostensibly presented itself as a humanitarian approach to relocating the Cherokee people. Under the guise of fairness, it purported to offer the Cherokees a voluntary pathway to move to designated territories in the West. However, the reality was far from the portrayed narrative.

The policy's primary intent was the forceful removal of the Cherokee Nation from their ancestral lands to make way for westward expansion by white settlers.

This policy was inherently flawed and deceptive. It strategically masked its coercive nature behind the semblance of choice and fairness. In actuality, it was a tool of dispossession and displacement, disregarding the Cherokees' sovereignty and rights.

The enrollment process itself was rife with manipulation and pressure tactics, aiming to convince or coerce Cherokees into agreeing to leave their homes, often through intimidation or misleading promises of assistance in their resettlement.

Answer 2

The federal enrollment policy aimed to remove the Cherokee to Western lands under the guise of a benevolent act, but led to the forceful and deadly relocation known as the Trail of Tears following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Step-by-step explanation:

The federal government's enrollment policy was intended to manage the removal of the Cherokee to lands west of the Mississippi in what was portrayed as a 'benevolent policy'. However, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and subsequent events such as the Trail of Tears revealed the brutality and the forced migration of the Cherokee people along with other tribes, contradicting the claimed humaneness of the policy. Many Cherokees died due to the harsh conditions of the removal process, and despite resistance and legal battles such as Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. military ensured their relocation.