In the 1820s and the 1830s, there was a growing desire of many Americans to expand westward. Many Americans, including President Jackson, believed the Native Americans were blocking the progress of the United States and the progress of our westward expansion. The state of Georgia wanted to remove the Cherokee tribe from Georgia and take the Cherokee land. When the Supreme Court ruled that the treaties the Cherokee tribe signed with the American government must...
In the 1820s and the 1830s, there was a growing desire of many Americans to expand westward. Many Americans, including President Jackson, believed the Native Americans were blocking the progress of the United States and the progress of our westward expansion. The state of Georgia wanted to remove the Cherokee tribe from Georgia and take the Cherokee land. When the Supreme Court ruled that the treaties the Cherokee tribe signed with the American government must be honored, Andrew Jackson wasn’t going to let that stop him from removing the Native Americans.
Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the decision of the Supreme Court. He was known for having said that the Supreme Court would have to enforce its decision because he wasn’t going to enforce the ruling of the Supreme Court. The Cherokee and other tribes were forced to relocate west of the Mississippi River. The forced relocation of the Native Americans, called the Trail of Tears, was very brutal for them. Their lands were forcibly taken away, and many Native Americans were required to relocate to the west. Native American ways of living were forever altered as a result of having their lands taken away and having been relocated to the land west of the Mississippi River.
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