Trail Of Tears Part 2

      Trail of tears part 2

   North Carolina and Georgia argued that the Cherokee land which was 'conquered territory', belonged to them. During this argument the government felt obligated to protect the Cherokees by invoking a "Hopewell Treaty" which served as a temporary protection for the Cherokees. 
   The Cherokees did there best to hold onto what was there's. But eventually the shear number and force there was of the whites compared to the Indians, wore out the Cherokees. Later the government created the "Treaty Of Holston" in another attempt to protect the Cherokees from North Carolina and Georgia. 

   But the promises the government made were never kept Between 1776-17794 the Cherokees were force to surrender more than 20,000 acres of Indian land to the whites. By 1819 the Cherokees had given up 989,880 acres of land.

   The whites hoped that "the Cherokee nation may be led to a greater degree of civilization, and to become herdsmen and cultivators instead of remaining in the state of hunters". This dream solidified because of the Treaty Of Holston on July 1791 or more simply the Cherokees would be trained to become businessmen.

   The Cherokees, in an effort to acknowledge there wealth, they delivered its first law in 1810 which established a police force. In 1817 another law was delivered which gave the Nations council the right to surrender land. In 1827 a constitution complete with a chief executive, congress, and a judicial system.

   During the years the Cherokees learned how to read and wright with there own language. They were becoming very smart and hard to intimidate.Because if this it was becoming difficult for poor white farmers to point at a rich Cherokee and say that God intended that the "uncivilized whites" gave up there land to the "civilized" whites.