JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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ruled in favor of the cherokee
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ruled in favor of the state of Georgia
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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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 the 1830s, the Court heard two cases dealing with conflicts between the state of Georgia and the Cherokee Nation. Although the Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee, Georgia ignored the decision and in 1838 the Cherokee were forcibly relocated to present-day Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), however, Chief Justice John Marshall declared that because Indian nations were dependent entities, they had no standing before the judiciary. The Court, therefore, lacked jurisdiction to exempt the Cherokees from Georgia law. More promising was the case arising from Georgia’s…
Detailed explanation-4: -In the late 1820s, the Georgia legislature passed laws designed to force the Cherokee people off their historic land. The Supreme Court refused to rule on whether the Georgia state laws were applicable to the Cherokee people.