What could have been done as an alternative to prevent the mass lynchings of Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, by mobs of illegal white settlers.
And the massacres like the one committed at New Echota by the Georgia national guard.
In total killing around 15,000-23,000 native americans.
Had Van Buren intervened more strenuously could it have escalated tensions not so far after the nullfication crisis? Might a civil war have happened in 1840?