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Which Statement Is True About Indian Removal in the 1820s

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Which statement is true about Indian removal in the 1820s and 1830s?


A) The increasing profitability of cotton motivated the United States to intensify efforts to seize Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw lands in order to expand cotton cultivation.
B) Two Supreme Court decisions in favor of Indian property rights led President Andrew Jackson to stop the removal.
C) President Andrew Jackson opposed the removal of the Cherokee, because they had assimilated into American society.
D) During the army's forced removal of 18,000 members of the Cherokee tribe via the Trail of Tears, no one died.
E) The Trail of Tears stretched from Georgia to Florida.

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