MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Question
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The Creek Nation had to live by Georgia law.
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The Creek Nation was a sovereign nation.
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The Cherokee had to live by Georgia law.
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The Cherokee Nation was a sovereign nation.
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Detailed explanation-1: -One year later, however, in Worcester v. 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: -Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the U.S. Supreme Court considered its powers to enforce the rights of Native American “nations” against the states. In Cherokee Nation, the Court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction (the power to hear a case) to review claims of an Indian nation within the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia was a small victory for the Cherokee Nation in Georgia because it. struck down laws created by the Georgia legislature to seize Cherokee lands.