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“John Marshall has made his decision, let him go to Georgia and enforce it!” This statement by Andrew Jackson led to which of the following events?
A
The Nullification Crisis-nearly causing the Civil War
B
The removal of the Cherokee Indians and the “Trail of Tears”
C
The death of the National Bank and the Panic of 1837
D
The rise of abolitionists and publication of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In Worcester v. Georgia, the court struck down Georgia’s extension laws. In the majority opinion Marshall wrote that the Indian nations were “distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights” and that the United States had acknowledged as much in several treaties with the Cherokees.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cherokee authorities estimate that 6, 000 men, women, and children die on the 1, 200-mile march called the Trail of Tears. Other Cherokee escape to North Carolina, where they elude capture and forced removal.

Detailed explanation-3: -Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1 (1831), was a United States Supreme Court case. The Cherokee Nation sought a federal injunction against laws passed by the U.S. state of Georgia depriving them of rights within its boundaries, but the Supreme Court did not hear the case on its merits.

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