JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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The Cherokee had to move from their land.
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The Creek nation ceded all of their land to the state of Georgia.
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The Cherokee nation was sovereign and subject to their own laws.
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The Creek nation had to move out of Georgia.
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Detailed explanation-1: -One year later, however, in Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation was sovereign. According to the decision rendered by Chief Justice John Marshall, this meant that Georgia had no rights to enforce state laws in its territory.
Detailed explanation-2: -Georgia, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3, 1832, held (5–1) that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Cherokee Nation, the Court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction (the power to hear a case) to review claims of an Indian nation within the United States. In Worcester, the Court ruled that only the United States, and not the individual states, had power to regulate or deal with the Indian nations.