Georgia

Trail of Tears Forced Removal Begins as 7,000 Troops Round Up 16,000 Cherokee at Gunpoint

1838-05-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott begin forcibly removing the Cherokee Nation from their ancestral homelands in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama, starting a process that becomes known as the Trail of Tears. President Martin Van Buren, enforcing the fraudulent 1835 Treaty of New …

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Supreme Court Rules Georgia Cannot Seize Cherokee Lands; Jackson Refuses to Enforce Decision

1832-03-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-1 in Worcester v. Georgia that states lack authority to impose regulations on Native American lands, with Chief Justice John Marshall writing that Indian nations are “distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights” and …

John Marshall Andrew Jackson Samuel Worcester Cherokee Nation Georgia +1 more judicial-nullification executive-overreach indian-removal constitutional-crisis rule-of-law +2 more