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Trail of Tears

Forced Indian Removal: An Unnecessary Measure of Violence

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Trail of Tears

The US had appointed agents (ex Benjamin Hawkins) to live among the Native Americans and teach them how to live like whites. Indian assimilation was supported by whites who called themselves ?friends of the Indians?. These eastern reformers were mostly Protestant Christians who considered assimilation necessary to the Christianizing of Indians. A lot of missionary expeditions in 19th century. Government began to make contracts with missionary societies to operate Indian schools for teaching citizenship, English, and agricultural and mechanical arts (1965)

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Trail of Tears - Cherokees in mountains of Georgia and western North Carolina

- Adopted constitution declaring their separation as a domestic dependent nation

- Georgia declared state law extended over the Cherokees living in its boundaries

- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) John Marshall declared that the court did not have jurisdiction to rule on the case however, the Cherokees had an “unquestionable right” to their land

- Georgia then passes a law declaring Cherokees had to acquire a license to live withing Georgia

- Worcester v. Georgia (1832) declared that the Georgia law was unconstitutional because the Cherokee nation was a “distinct political nation”

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