Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia
There was no Indian Removal Act of 1796. In 1796 George Washington began a program of integration with the Cherokee that was fairly successful. In 1830 Congress the law as outlined by Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Jackson sent General Winfield Scott to remove the Indians.
John Marshall said he wanted to enforce the Indian Removal act
He lobbied against the passage of the Indian Removal Act and gained the support of some prominent Whigs, but it passed. He filed suit in the Supreme Court against the state of Georgia in protest of state laws that punished the Cherokee. The Court ruled that state laws did not apply to Indian affairs but that did not help the Cherokee where federal law was concerned. He tried to get a treaty approved that would delay the removal of the Cherokee but another faction in the Cherokee nation signed a different treaty that agreed to the removal.
No. The Cherokee were forced out by US soldiers after the government passed the Indian Removal Act in 1837.
The Indian Removal Act
The purpose of the Indian Removal Act was to take the Indians to the land west of the Mississippi River.
The Native people (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole) in the Indian removal act of 1830 came from the southeastern states (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina) of the United States.
No "case" led to the passage of the Indian removal Act; however 2 cases resulted from this act. Most important was Cherokee Nation VS Georgia 30 US 1, 5 (1831) (see links) and Worcester VS Georgia 31 US 515 (8 L.Ed 483) (1832).
Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, And Chickosaw. Also known as the "five civilized tribes"
Cherokee and Choctaw
The cherokee
Andrew jacksons policy of implementing the Indian removal act by evicting the Cherokee tribe threatened the constitutional principle of?
The Mandan Indians had to move from their home in the Indian Removal Act
Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia
Indian Removal Act.