Question

Which of the following caused the Trail of Tears?

A. Plantation owners wanted a cheap source of labor to work their fields.
B. Pioneers wanted to travel across the frontier and settle on the West Coast.
C. White citizens wanted to claim the land of Native Americans in the Southeast.
D. Explorers wanted to find a sea route across America through the Arctic Ocean.

Answer 1

C. they took the native americans land and cast them out to a reservation

Answer 2

Agreed.