JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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disputes over Georgia’s boundaries.
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scandalous land deals.
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the plight of the Cherokee.
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issues involving slavery.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The discovery of gold was one of the major reasons behind Cherokee Removal, in which the state of Georgia expelled Cherokees from their ancestral lands in 1838. Formally established in 1833, Dahlonega replaced Auraria as the Lumpkin County seat.
Detailed explanation-2: -Above, a rendition of the Cherokee on the “Trail of Tears.” In the cases Cherokee Nation v. 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Andrew Jackson, who had pushed Congress to approve the Indian Removal Act in 1830, ignored the ruling and sent in the National Guard. The Cherokee people were forced to move from their lands to a designated area west of the Mississippi on a brutal journey that would later become known as the Trail of Tears.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward. Today the trail encompasses about 2, 200 miles of land and water routes, and traverses portions of nine states.