Respond to the following based on your reading.
1 Andrew Jackson started a Native American removal policy that forced all natives to relocate west of the Mississippi River. Native lands were open to settlers.
2He gave the land to the settlers and land speculators
3 Most supporters approved of his policy
4The Seminole resistance resulted in a war that began under Chief Osceola and lasted into the 1840s.
5They used a legal action to resist
6 They developed their own culture and language. Printed newspapers and had their government officials
7 John Marshall's opinion for the Court majority in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia was essentially that Georgia had no jurisdiction over the Cherokees and no claim to their lands.
8 He wanted Georgia to enforce the decision because first the officials ignored it.
10 After the Treaty of New Echota, Jackson had the green light to order Cherokee removal. 11Other Cherokees, under the leadership of Chief John Ross, resisted until the end.
12 20,000 Cherokees were marched westward at gunpoint on the infamous Trail of Tears. 13 About a quarter dies on the way, with the remainder left to seek survival in a completely foreign land. The tribe was divided -- Ross proponents killed those who signed the Treaty of New Echota.
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