The Indian Removal wouldn't have happened if the whites and Indians had the same sense of civilization around the time of 1802. Thw whites saw themselves as the leading nation and the smarter ones because they began making money owning businesses. However the Cherokees in Georgia at that time weren't on the same level, and also the whites discovered that the land the Cherokkes were on was valuable, so the whites wanted them out, make them move west since the east coast was becoming prosperous and they had nothing to contribute wealth wise. By signing an agreement with Georgia, the U.S. federal government established federal ownership of the lands

The trail of tears began in 1838 when the General Scott proclaimed to the Cherokees on May that the president sent him forward with a pawerful army, there was no way for the Indians to run or hide. And under Scott's orders men, women, and children were taken from their activities, their homes were in flames, the day came. There were 645 wagons in the middle of winter that set out with all the people. The journey took six months of the hardest part of the year. The Mississippi River was running full o ice, they had to wait on the eastern bank. 60 yeas later the miseries of that halt beside the frozen river, with hundreds of sick and dying penned up in wagons and stretched upon the ground, barefoot has not been wiped out from the memory and never will. Andrew Jackson should of been there himself.

While this was going on, many white Gerorgians were becoming upset seeing no results of the 1820 agreement. They wanted the Cherokees out, and that's why Andrew Jackson was getting heavy support in the South and Midwest when he was running for president. He made his main promise the Indian removal, so obviously he won the election. This is where the new stage entered becaus ein 1830 Congress passed an Indian Removal Bill for financial support of a policy that was already in progress for a while. The supporters of the removal understood the relation between the Indians and the larger American destiny, they saw the Indians as having no role in the expansion for broader national purpose.

John Marshall, Chief of Justice of U.S. Supreme court was standing up for the cherokees in majority opinion of Worcester V. State of Georgia in 1832. He said that they are a distinct community occupying their own territory in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter, but with the agreement of Cherokees themselves. President Jackson upon hearing of this Supreme court decision remarked that J. Marshall has made his decisi

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