JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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They needed to prepare the ground for planting crops
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The Cherokee were planning attacks
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Gold was discovered in Georgia
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Why did the state of Georgia want to relocate the Cherokee, and what did the Cherokee do in response? The state of Georgia discovered gold in Georgia and wanted the Cherokee to leave, and as a form of resistance, the Cherokee tried adopting the contemporary culture of the white people.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gold caused the death and suffrage of thousands of Native Americans. The Cherokee giving gold to the white man was the Cherokee handing their life to their killer. Andrew Jackson a man that had been saved by 500 Cherokee’s and their allies at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814 authorized the Indian Removal Act.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the late 1820s, gold was discovered on Cherokee land. Click on the image below to see a map of where it was found. People from the neighboring state of Georgia wanted that gold. Georgia passed laws that took away Cherokee rights and started giving away Cherokee land to Georgians.