JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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Jackson didn’t do anything to stop Georgia from evicting the Cherokee
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Jackson was afraid of civil war with the Indians
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The army was ordered in secret to get rid of the Native Americans
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Oklahoma was a place the Cherokees wanted to go to.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Cherokees argued that the laws violated their sovereign rights as a nation and illegally intruded into their treaty relationship with the United States. In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), the court held that it did not have jurisdiction to strike down Georgia’s laws.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although it did not prevent the Cherokee from being removed from their land, the decision was often used to craft subsequent Indian law in the United States. The Worcester decision created an important precedent through which American Indians could, like states, reserve some areas of political autonomy.