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Gen. Winifield Scott's address to the Cherokee Nation. why do yiu think some Cherokees already moved west of the Mississippi while others did not?​

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The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians.

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I also think it was part of religion and some people wanted to stay where they worship there gods and ect

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