JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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Native American agreed to show the settler how to grow corn.
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The settlers wanted to live around Native people.
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Gold was discovered on Cherokee land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Once word spread, miners and fortune-seekers began to trespass on Cherokee land in search of the precious metal. Benjamin Parks was one of the first people to find gold in Georgia during the fall of 1829.
Detailed explanation-3: -This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of progress. Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the late 1820s, gold was discovered on Cherokee land. Click on the image below to see a map of where it was found. 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.