JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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President Jackson
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American Indians
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John Ross
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Major Ridge
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Detailed explanation-1: -Our property may be plundered before our eyes; violence may be committed on our persons; even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised. We are deprived of membership in the human family!
Detailed explanation-2: -In response, Cherokee chief John Ross submitted his Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation to Congress to declare the Treaty of New Echota void.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chief John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee nation wrote a letter to Congress to protest the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. This treaty, signed by a group of Cherokees claiming to represent their people, stated that the tribe would relocate west of the Mississippi.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Ross, the principal chief of the Cherokees, led the tribal government and majority of Cherokees opposed to removal. The “Ross Party” argued that the Cherokees should defend their legal rights as a sovereign nation under treaties going back to George Washington.