USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the result of the 1831 US Supreme Court case Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
A
The Supreme Court held that all Cherokee lands belonged to the United States.
B
The Supreme Court held that the Cherokee Nation had rights to gold on their lands.
C
The Supreme Court held that Georgia could not take away Cherokee lands.
D
The Supreme Court held that the Cherokee could not sue as a foreign nation.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation was sovereign. According to the decision rendered by Chief Justice John Marshall, this meant that Georgia had no rights to enforce state laws in its territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -indigenous sovereignty In the meantime, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia had made its way to the United States Supreme Court. In 1831 the court decided that indigenous peoples living within the United States were no longer independent nations and that as a domestic sovereign nation-in other words, one that depended upon…

Detailed explanation-3: -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. In Cherokee Nation, the Court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction (the power to hear a case) to review claims of an Indian nation within the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -What was the result of the 1831 US Supreme Court case Cherokee Nation v. Georgia? The Supreme Court held that the Cherokee could not sue as a foreign nation.

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