In the American West in the late 1800s, the U. S. government moved thousands of Native Americans onto land that was set aside in Oklahoma. Why did the government move the Native Americans? A. to use them as cheap labor on farms B. to keep them from declaring war on the United States C. to clear the land for white settlers D. to show that the government honors its treaties

The U. S. government's policies towards Native Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century were influenced by the desire to expand westward into territories occupied by these Native American tribes. By the 1850s nearly all Native American tribes, roughly 360,000 in number, lived to the west of theMississippi Yet, only fourteen months later, Jackson prompted Congress to pass the Removal Act, a bill that forcedNative Americans to leave the United States and settle in the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Many Cherokee tribes banded together as an independent nation, and challenged this legislation in U. S. courts The Chickasaw were considered by the United States (US) as one of the Five Civilized Tribes, as they adopted numerous practices of European Americans. Resisting European-American settlers encroaching on their territory, the Chickasaw were forced by the US to sell their country in 1832 and move to Indian Territory