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Events leading up to Cherokee removal
Attempting to come to an agreement Principal Chief John Ross met with President Jackson to discuss the possibility that Cherokees might give up some of their land for money and land to the west of the Mississippi River. Jackson turned this deal down resulting in Ross suggesting $20 million as a base for negotiating the sale of the land and eventually agreeing to let the US Senate decide the sale price.

John Ross estimated the value of Cherokee Land at $7.23 million dollars. A conservative estimate by Gregg T Matthews in 2009 puts Cherokee's land value for 1838 market at $7,055,469.70 just over the $5 million dollars the senate agreed to pay. Look-at-me-i&#39;m-white-and-nerdy! (talk) 05:28, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Treaty of New Echota - no elected officials signed. (treaty signed Dec 1835)
 * Ross tried to renegotiate after renegades signed treaty
 * Indian disagreements between tribes- white man couldn't distinguish between them

Growth in cotton farming and agriculture
Until widespread use of the cotton gin, short- staple cotton had been such an arduous crop to grow and process because of the time consuming process of removing the sticky seeds from each the individual boles of cotton. This process took so long that it was nearly unprofitable to grow cotton.The increased ease of production of cotton due to access to the Cotton Gin, invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, which used teeth to comb through the fluffy fibers and remove all of the seeds in a much more efficient manner, led to a major rise in the production of cotton in the south near North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Production increased from 750,000 bales in 1830 to 2.85 million bales in 1850. Matthew T Gregg writes that "According to the 1835 Cherokee census enumerators, 1,707,900 acres in the Cherokee Nation in Georgia were tillable." This land was valuable farming land, with the ideal climate and the nescessary 200 frost-free days for growing cotton, and would have been crucial in supporting the cotton industry's monumental growth, as would have increased ease of transportation due to railroads. The Cherokee Indians typically grew small family farms and only planted what was needed to survive alongside hunting and gathering. As immigration increased rapidly throughout the 1820s' and 1830s' and by 1850 approximately 2.6 million people immigrated to the united states. The government saw that the land could be used for more than just small family crops and could provide a source of income for the farmers immigrating to the south and needing farm-able land, thus prompting the pursuit of a removal treaty.

Look-at-me-i&#39;m-white-and-nerdy! (talk) 04:59, 12 October 2014 (UTC)