Should the Cherokee Nation have been removed from their home territory?

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Should the Cherokee Nation have been removed from their home territory? by Mind Map: Should the Cherokee Nation have been removed from their home territory?

1. Evidence: Document A shows the United States military forced Cherokees to leave their homelands by gunpoint while some were made to walk to new territory

2. Thesis: The Cherokee Nation should not have been removed from their home territory because the conditions of their removal were cruel and they were an independent nation in their own right.

3. Reason 1: The Cherokees were asked to relocate under cruel conditions.

4. Reason 2: The Cherokees were a sovereign nation and were under no obligation to leave their homelands.

5. Evidence: Document B shows United States recognized the Cherokees had sovereign status as an independent nation.