What does The Trial of Tears suggest about the changes occuring during this time period for many ethnic groups?The expanding Republic brought new...

The Trail of Tears suggests that Native Americans were
being excluded from American society in favor of
whites.

The removal of Indians from the Southeast showed
that the treatment of Indians was going to be based on ethnicity.  The tribes who were
"removed" were the "civilized tribes" whose lifestyles would not have interfered with
white settlement.  These were people who had settled down and who had become farmers and
had a constitution and a written language.  The point is that these were not nomadic
tribes who "had to" be driven off.  Instead, it is clear that the Indians were removed
simply because the whites wanted them gone.

Thus, the Trail
of Tears shows that Native Americans were going to be forced off the land, regardless of
how they lived, so that white immigrants and other settlers could have the land for
themselves.