JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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Question
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It was signed by a small number of unauthorized, self-appointed representatives of the Cherokee nation
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Only people who signed it would be entitled to financial compensation
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It contradicted the original Treaty of Echota
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It was signed by outgoing president Andrew Jackson, but would be carried out by his successor Martin Van Buren
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Detailed explanation-1: -The National Cherokee Council claimed the treaty was invalid because the Principal Chief did not sign it and the Cherokees who did were not authorized to create a treaty.
Detailed explanation-2: -The agreement led to the forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. The Treaty of New Echota gave the Cherokees $5 million and land in present-day Oklahoma in exchange for their 7 million acres of ancestral land.
Detailed explanation-3: -Four of the powerful Cherokee men who eventually signed the Treaty of New Echota-Major Ridge, his son John Ridge, and his nephews Elias Boudinot and Stand Watie-were doing everything “right” by the standards of the white government leaders they wanted to appease.
Detailed explanation-4: -Despite the Cherokees not signing these treaties, lotteries were held to distribute Cherokee land to European-Americans. Chief John Ross fought back and won in the Supreme Court Case of 1832 Worcester v Georgia.