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What is one reason the Cherokees were removed to Oklahoma during the infamous "Trail of Tears"?

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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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