Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830's was more a

reformulation of the national policy that had been in effect since the

1790's than a change in that policy." This can be proven by examining the administration of Jackson on the nation policy of Indians, and comparing it to the administrations of other previous presidents. Around 1826, the federal government tried to remove all Indians to the West. The Cherokee Indians of northwestern Georgia feared removal and objected to the Supreme Court. In Worcester vs. Georgia, the Court ruled that they were a “sovereign nation", and not subject to the laws of Georgia. Jackson did not agree with the decision, and did not enforce the decision by John Marshall. He persuaded the tribe to cede the land in Georgia, and travel west of the Mississippi.

According to the map of Territorial Cessions Made by the Cherokees, a considerable amount of land had been acquired from the Cherokee Indians by many treaties of Washington, Monroe, and Jefferson administrations. Jackson followed them with the acquiring of more Cherokee lands.

According to Henry Knox, secretary of war of Washington’s administra

Georgia. "Actuated by this view of the subject, I informed the Indians

diminution of the territory they occupy, although effected by their own

The Cherokee Indians seeking their independent sovereignty, moved west of

should be led to an agricultural way of life, thus lessening their need for

inhabiting parts of Georgia and Alabama that their attempt to establish an

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