JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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The Cherokee and State of Georgia
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Apache and Comanche
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White southerners and northerners
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Worcester v. Georgia involved a group of white Christian missionaries, including Samuel A. Worcester, who were living in Cherokee territory in Georgia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the U.S. Supreme Court considered its powers to enforce the rights of Native American “nations” against the states. 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1831, Samuel A. Worcester and several other missionaries from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Nations challenged a Georgia law prohibiting all white persons from living on or going into the Cherokee nation without a permit.