chereokee removal

The Cherokee’s considered them a nation. They were civilized with a government and leadership. Georgia felt that the Cherokee’s should leave the state, they felt the Cherokee’s territory was much needed land for new American settlers.

In 1824 President James Monroe suggested that all Indians be moved beyond the Mississippi River. Congress rejected this proposal. Georgia kept on pushing for the removal. It accused the federal government of not fulfilling its 1802 promise to remove the Indians in return for the state’s renunciation of its claim to western lands. Many Indian tribes left but the Cherokees refused.

The situation went to court in the Cherokee Nation V. Georgia in 1831. Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that under the federal constitution Indian tribe was neither a foreign nation nor a state and therefore had no standing in federal courts.

Andrew Jackson also favored the removal. He thought it wasn’t justified to have a nation within a nation. He used the constitution to help his argument. In Article IV.3 it states “No new State shall be formed or erected within within the jurisdiction of any other state “(Document L). Georgia was sovereignty and there should not be a nation within Georgia, this is there state right. Andrew Jackson felt that the Cherokees nation should be given land west of the Mississippi entitled to them, (Document B).

In the Removal Act of 1830 Congress funded Jackson funds to negotiate treaties with the Indians. A few of the Cherokee leaders signed the treaty of New Echota in 1835, which authorized tribe removal voluntarily. The treaty had no meaning because the consensus of Cherokee people did not want to leave. The leaders that signed that treaty did not speak for everyone and they refused to leave.

The Cherokees stood for what they believed in. Their environment was essential to there survival. If McKenny were a true humanitarian than he would have fought for the Cherokee people. He must understand that their land was their corner stone of civilization. The Cherokee built towns and were civilized; they can’t just get up and go.

America was a nation built for people that didn’t agree with their former government. The Indians where here before the creation of the United States to muscle around there power and throw the

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