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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

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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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