JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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Georgia was worried about the Cherokee claim to be a separate nation.
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The Cherokee had begun to stage attacks on American settlers.
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The Cherokee helped free enslaved African American workers.
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Prospectors wanted the land because gold had been found there.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. Why did Georgia auction Cherokee land to settlers beginning in 1828? Georgia was worried about the Cherokee claim to be a separate nation. The Cherokee had begun to stage attacks on American settlers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Q. Why did the state of Georgia begin auctioning off Cherokee land in 1828? Prospectors wanted to mine for gold on Cherokee territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -People from the neighboring state of Georgia wanted that gold. Georgia passed laws that took away Cherokee rights and started giving away Cherokee land to Georgians.
Detailed explanation-4: -Explanation: The State of Georgia wanted the land of the Cherokee for settlements by white farmers and miners. The discovery of gold in the land reserved by federal treaties to the Cherokee, a sovereign nation at the time sparked the actions.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Great Intrusion. In 1828, European-Americans discovered gold in the Appalacian Mountains of Georgia. This land was part of the Cherokee Nation. Members of the Nation first discovered this gold in the early 1700s and it remained virtually untouched for 100 years.