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A Treacherous Choice And A Treaty Right

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Pregnancy's Are Not Happening

Major Ridge and John Ridge made the really difficult decision to move West. They did it behind the back of Cherokee Chief John Ross. The ridges signed a removal treaty that President Andrew Jackson then signed into law. Thousands of Cherokees died after that treaty was signed.

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