Why did the united states avoid involvement in world war ii until december 1941?

They didn't want to get involved because they were thinking with there heads and not there hearts. If they did fight they thought maybe the natzis would go after them next and America is too selfish, they wanted to not fight so we wouldn't die but what about helping others. The reason America didn't fight until Pearl Harbor (One of our own) got attacked is because they thought with there head and not their heart.

Cherokee  removal, part of the trail of tears, refers to the  forced  relocation between 1836 and 1839 of thecherokee  nation from  their lands ingeorgia, south carolina, north carolina, tennessee, texas, and alabama to the indian territory (present day oklahoma)  in  the thenwestern united states, and the resultant deaths

That would be a trashcan