JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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treaties did not protect Native American lands.
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Georgia had the right to take Native American lands.
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the Cherokee had the right to keep their lands.
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Georgia could not make a separate treaty with Native Americans.
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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: -In Worcester v. Georgia, the court struck down Georgia’s extension laws. In the majority opinion Marshall wrote that the Indian nations were “distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights” and that the United States had acknowledged as much in several treaties with the Cherokees.
Detailed explanation-3: -Georgia, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3, 1832, held (5–1) that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land.
Detailed explanation-4: -On appeal their case reached the Supreme Court as Worcester v. Georgia (1832), and the Court held that the Cherokee Nation was “a distinct political community” within which Georgia law had no force. The Georgia law was therefore unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.