JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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The Cherokee Nation challenged Georgia’s anti-Cherokee laws before the U.S. supreme Court.
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Georgia asked the federal government for funds to purchase Cherokee land.
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The Cherokee Nation asked President Andrew Jackson to negotiate with Georgia.
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Georgia offered to grant U.S. citizenship to the Cherokees.
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Detailed explanation-1: -1836 Protest Petition As a rebuttal to the illegal signing of the Treaty of New Echota, the Cherokee Nation created an official protest petition in 1836. It was signed by Principal Chief John Ross, Cherokee Nation council members, and 2, 174 citizens of the Cherokee Nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in Georgia, whites poured onto Cherokee lands by the thousands, ignoring treaties, burning villages, and flaunting the U.S. Constitution and the Non-Intercourse laws passed by Congress.
Detailed explanation-3: -From 1817 to 1827, the Cherokees effectively resisted ceding their full territory by creating a new form of tribal government based on the United States government. Rather than being governed by a traditional tribal council, the Cherokees wrote a constitution and created a two-house legislature.
Detailed explanation-4: -The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians.