Question 4 Cherokees-the President of the United States has sent me with a powerful army, to
cause you, in obedience to the treaty of 1834, to join that part of your people who
are already established in prosperity on the other side of the Mississippi The full
moon of May is already on the wane, and before another shall have passed every
Cherokee man, woman, and child ... must be in motion to join their brethren in the
far West
• Address by General Winfield Scott, 1838
The outcome of the situation described in the excerpt above was the
A. death of thousands of Cherokees due to sickness and exposure on the march westward.
B. establishment of a prosperous new Cherokee territory west of the Mississippi River.
C. signing of a new treaty that allowed the Cherokee to stay on their land as long as they paid taxe
O D. distribution of land previously owned by Cherokees to poor, landless southern whites.