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Georgia Land Cession to the USA
Georgia coded all lands west of its current border to the USA in exchange for $1.25 million and title to all indians land within its border -
Creek (southern georgia)
-1812 lost in battle of Horeshoe Bend
-tried to resist removal in 1836
-ultimatum -
Seminole (Central Florida)
1st seminole war in 1812
-LOST
2nd seminole war 1836
-chief Osceola
-lost horribly -
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The Clermont : Robert Folton's Steamboat
1817- A trip from New Orleans To Louisville took 28 days
-A trip from LOndon to NYC took 3 1/2 months 1826- New Orleans to Louisville took 8 days
-London to NYC took 3 weeks 1825-DeWitt Clinton was the govoner of NYC
-New York paid for the Erie Canal -
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Explosions
-42 explosions
-273 deaths -
New Echota Founded
The Cherokee National capital is founded at New Echota -
Sac/Fox
-1826 lead discovered in Galena, Illinois
-1828 treaty of chicago
-chief blackhawk led his people back
-blackhawk war -
Teriff of abominations
high teriff on important goods -
Cherokee Constitution
Cherokee nations adopts its own constitution modeled after the US Constitution and constitution of the state of Georgia -
President v. VP
First time president and vice president are running for presidency -
Nullification crisis
- South Carolina is angry about the teriff and threatens to secede -Jackson threatened to invade -high teriff on important goods
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Cherokee
adopted western ways
-farming
-built homes
-buisness
-western
-schools
-adopted christianinty
constitution
sequoya- wrote cherokee alphabet
-1812 gold
-1829 Georgia passed laws:
- cherokee constitution nullified
-cherokee cannot mine gold
-cherokee cannot hire a whiteman -
Gold discovered in the Cherokee Nation
America's first gold rush started when gold was disscovered near Dahlonega, Georgia on cherokee land. Illegal minors invaded the cherokee nation to mind for gold. -
Georgia's reaction to cherokee constitution
- outlaw constitution
- outlaw nation
- illegal to mine gold
- militia guard mines
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Indian Removal Act
law signed by President Jackson which forced the indian's nations to surrender their homeland and relocate to indian territory -
cherokee nation v. Georgia
US Supreme Court determind that the cherokee nation was a domestic dependent nation and not a sovereign state -
President Jackson Vetoes the 2nd National Bank of America
-McCullough v. Maryland - congress could create a national bank deposit U.S. funds
-Jackson vetoed -
Whig Party
-"Anti-king" political party
-Henery Clay -
Choctaw
-1st nation to be removed in 1832
-congress eliminated choctaw government
-forced to sign the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
-walk to indian territory -
Worchester v. Georgia
Samuel Worchester was arrested for occuping cherokee land without a state lisence. Supreme Court ruled that the individual states, had no authority in American Indian Affairs. -
chickasaw (Alabama, Mississippi)
-saw treatment of Sac, Fox, Creek
-negotiated removal
-rode on boats
-money up front -
2nd seminole war
-chief osceola
-lost horribly -
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Trail of Tears
They forced march of Cherokee Indians from their homelands in the Cherokee nation of indian territory in present day Oklahoma. During the trail of tears 1/4 of all cherokee died. It was an 800 mile walk.
