THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
JAMES MADISON AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
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filing another petition against the Cherokee Nation
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ignoring the ruling and forcing the Cherokee to move at gunpoint.
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ordering state officials in Georgia to negotiate with Cherokee Nation
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asking congress to pay reparations to the Cherokee Nation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Eventually, they were granted a pardon and were released in 1833. Pres. 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: -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: -indigenous sovereignty In the meantime, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia had made its way to the United States Supreme Court. In 1831 the court decided that indigenous peoples living within the United States were no longer independent nations and that as a domestic sovereign nation-in other words, one that depended upon…
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Supreme Court modernized tribal sovereignty by holding that state courts do not possess jurisdiction to hear claims brought arising on Indian lands against Indian defendants without congressional authorization.