JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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The Cherokee Nation challenged Georgia’s anti-Cherokee laws before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Georgia asked the federal government for funds to purchase Cherokee land.
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The Cherokee Nation asked President Andrew Jackson to negotiate with Georgia.
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Georgia offered to grant U.S. citizenship to the Cherokees.
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Detailed explanation-1: -When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in Georgia, whites poured onto Cherokee lands by the thousands, ignoring treaties, burning villages, and flaunting the U.S. Constitution and the Non-Intercourse laws passed by Congress.
Detailed explanation-2: -So in the late 1820s, Georgia started passing what we call the harassment laws and they were a series of laws that were passed that extended its jurisdiction over the Cherokee Nation. Cherokees were not allowed to mine gold on their own land, they were not allowed to meet in council, it was considered illegal.
Detailed explanation-3: -1836 Protest Petition As a rebuttal to the illegal signing of the Treaty of New Echota, the Cherokee Nation created an official protest petition in 1836. It was signed by Principal Chief John Ross, Cherokee Nation council members, and 2, 174 citizens of the Cherokee Nation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Summary of case In the late 1920s, the Georgia State Legislature passed two laws that declared Cherokee Nation tribal territory could be inspected, divided up, and distributed to white citizens in the state of Georgia. The laws also provided penalties and punishment to anyone who did not comply.