Which people voluntarily relocated from the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory around 1820?
Old Settlers
Trail of Tears survivors
Qualla Boundary residents
Cherokee Freedmen
Answer
The "Old Settlers" were Cherokee people who voluntarily relocated from the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) around 1820, before the forced removal known as the Trail of Tears. They sought to escape increasing pressures from white settlers and the US government.
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