回答{TSE}题： 第二篇The Cherokee Nation Long before the white man came to America, the lan

d belonged tothe American Indian nations.The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is nowthe southeastern part of the United States. After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of theirways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was tothe white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokeelanguage. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture.But that proved impossible -there were just too many words. Then he took the 85sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an Englishspelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet provedamazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and writein their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own news paper. In 1830, the U. S. Congress passed a law. It allowed thegovernment to remove Indians from their lands. The Cherokees refused to go.They had lived on their lands for centuries. It belonged to them. Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the MississippiRiver？ The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out. Soldierssurrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint into the westernterritory. The sick, the old and the small children went in carts, along withtheir belongings. The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback.It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. Cold andhungry, the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the journey.Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside. When the last group arrivedin their new home in March 1839, more than 4, 000 had died. It was indeed amarch of death. {TS}"The Cherokee Nation used to live

A. on the American continent.

B. in the southeastern part of the US.

C. beyond the Mississippi River.

D. in the western territory.