JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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the Cherokee Nation should be removed to the West.
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the Cherokee Nation could refuse to sign treaties.
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individual states could impose laws on American Indians.
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American Indians could not live east of the Mississippi.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In an opinion delivered by Chief Justice John Marshall, the Court held that the Georgia act, under which Worcester was prosecuted, violated the Constitution, treaties, and laws of the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -Georgia, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3, 1832, held (5–1) that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers.
Detailed explanation-4: -This redesignation allowed states like Georgia to disenfranchise Native American tribes of their lands. The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the Cherokee Nation because the Cherokee Nation didn’t have control of their lands, since they were not a foreign nation with sovereignty rights.
Detailed explanation-5: -Georgia, 6 Pet. 515, 561, this Court held that Georgia state law had no force in the Cherokee Nation because the Cherokee Nation “is a distinct community occupying its own territory.”