JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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Congress voided the Georgia state charter allowing the Cherokee to stay.
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President Jackson allowed the Cherokee to stay in Georgia temporarily.
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Cherokee Indians were forced off their lands and relocated westward.
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Supreme Court ruled that white settlers had claim to Cherokee land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -White settlers in Georgia complained that the Cherokee were on lands they wished to inhabit and revoked the constitution of the Cherokee Nation. Which of the following was a lasting impact of this decision? Congress voided the Georgia state charter allowing the Cherokee to stay.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -As European settlers arrived, Cherokees traded and intermarried with them. They began to adopt European customs and gradually turned to an agricultural economy, while being pressured to give up traditional home-lands. Between 1721 and 1819, over 90 percent of their lands were ceded to others.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Cherokee Nation, led by Principal Chief John Ross, resisted the Indian Removal Act, even in the face of assaults on its sovereign rights by the state of Georgia and violence against Cherokee people.
Detailed explanation-5: -It’s estimated that 16, 000 Cherokees eventually were forced to undertake the six to seven month journey to “Indian Territory” in the land beyond Arkansas. Between the stockades, starvation and sickness, and the harsh winter conditions, some 4, 000 Cherokees perished, never reaching their new land.