1822 Georgia continue to apply pressure on the Cherokee and other Southeastern native tribes move west of Georgia officials. 40 acre tracks were for the gold builders that were known as gold minders in the south north of Georgia citizens participated in Georgia land lobby who qualified meaning: you would have just acquired 160 acres by the courthouse you would have taken somebody’s farm or acres tracks and winning the land waiting for Cherokees to pack up and move off the land to take possession of their land forcing the Cherokees out Cherokees had a possibility of moving west across the Mississippi river eventually someone from Georgia signed a piece of paper saying; they all the land now. But a small contingency of Cherokee’s agreed with the federal government to signed the treaty of new Echota In December if 1835 it was ratified by Congress and Senators in 1836 that Spring Cherokee were given two years to move off the land soldier showed up and force them off the land those who are still occupying it, getting pushed West called: The trail of tears.