President Jackson refused to protect Native American lands.
The result was that the President ignored the ruling of the court, and forcibly removed the Cherokee people from their land. Their forced movement to Oklahoma resulted in the deaths of nearly one third of all the living Cherokee people. The movement was known as the Trail of Tears.
President Jackson refused to protect Native American lands. apex
In response to the Supreme Court's ruling in Worcester v Georgia that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokee, President Jackson disregarded the decision and removal of the Cherokee proceeded as planned.
The Cherokee Nation was politically independent with its own sovereign powers.
The result was that the President ignored the ruling of the court, and forcibly removed the Cherokee people from their land. Their forced movement to Oklahoma resulted in the deaths of nearly one third of all the living Cherokee people. The movement was known as the Trail of Tears.
Jackson supported Georgia's efforts to remove the Cherokee
Court ruled that Georgia was not entitled to regulate the Cherokee nor to invade their lands.
There was nothing to actually enforce. Georgia complied with the Court's ruling not to treat directly with the Native American Nations. Within four years, though, the Trail of Tears would begin, which expelled most of the Cherokee from Georgia anyway.
Yes he did
Court ruled that Georgia was not entitled to regulate the Cherokee nor to invade their lands.
Worcester v. Georgia ruled that the Cherokee Tribe "constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers." Jackson defied the Supreme Court and kicked the Cherokee out of their homes to Oklahoma. Many died on the Trail of Tears.
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In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers. Although the decision became the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the twentieth century, it did not protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast.
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)