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U.S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of New Echota

The United States Senate ratified the Treaty of New Echota, a 1835 agreement signed by a minority Cherokee delegation ceding Cherokee lands in the Southeast to the U.S. government.

U.S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of New Echota

The ratification provided the legal basis for the forced removal of the Cherokee people (the Trail of Tears), a major and controversial outcome of Jacksonian Indian removal policy.

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