JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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He ignored the decision
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He obeyed the decision after a delay
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He asked states to implement his decision
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He called for the impeachment of court justices
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Detailed explanation-1: -Andrew Jackson declined to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision, thus allowing states to enact further legislation damaging to the tribes. The U.S. government began forcing the Cherokee off their land in 1838.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Andrew Jackson ignored the Court’s decision in Worcester v. Georgia, but later issued a proclamation of the Supreme Court’s ultimate power to decide constitutional questions and emphasizing that its decisions had to be obeyed.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Jackson responded to the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia (1832) by simply ignoring the decision. In the ruling, the Court had stated that Georgia had no authority to prohibit non-Native Americans onto Cherokee lands.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did the Cherokee fight the takeover of their lands in Georgia? The Cherokees went and appealed their case to the Supreme Court. What did the Supreme Court rule on the Cherokee case? The Supreme Court ruled that Georgia’s laws did not apply to the Native Americans.
Detailed explanation-5: -Describe the ruling of the Supreme Court in Worcester v. Georgia and Jackson’s response to it. The Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distance community in which the laws of Georgia had no force. Only the federal government had control over the Native Americans.