Question

What was the outcome of the Worcester v. Georgia court case?

a.The Cherokees won the right to stay on their land and were deemed an independent nation.

b.The Cherokees lost their case and were forced to leave their land in Georgia.

c.Under Andrew Jackson's influence, the Court ruled that the Cherokees were not an independent nation.

d.The Cherokees won the right to gain supplies and land when they relocated to another state.

Answer 1

C.

Georgia law required all whites living in Cherokee Indian Territory to obtain a state license. Seven missionaries refused to obey the state law, were arrested, convicted, and sentenced to four years of hard labor for violating the state licensing law. They appealed their case to the Supreme Court of the United States, arguing that the laws they had been convicted under were unconstitutional because states have no power or authority to pass laws concerning sovereign Indian Nations.

The missionaries, Samuel Austin Worcester and Elizur Butler, were targeted by Georgia because of their influence with and support of Cherokee resistance against removal. It was understood that, had they applied for state licenses to reside among the Cherokees, the licenses would have been denied. The Georgia state courts had previously been deferential to Worcester because of his federal appointment as postmaster to New Echota, the Cherokee capital. George Rockingham Gilmer, the governor of Georgia, personally persuaded the federal government to withdraw Worcester's appointment as postmaster and make him subject to arrest.

The court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a "distinct community" with self-government "in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, establishing the doctrine that the national government of the United States, and not individual states, had authority in Indian affairs.

Answer 2

c is wrong

Answer 3

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Peters) 1 (1831), was a United States Supreme Court case. The Cherokee Nation sought a federal injunction against laws passed by the state of Georgia depriving them of rights within its boundaries, but the Supreme Court did not hear the case on its merits. It ruled that it had no original jurisdiction in the matter, as the Cherokee was a dependent nation, with a relationship to the United States like that of a "ward to its guardian."

Answer 4

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Answer 5

In the landmark case, The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia, the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1831 that the Cherokee Indian Nation was not a foreign nation and therefore ruled that the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction.

Answer 6

so whats the answer?

Answer 7

a is the awnser

Answer 8

The correct answer is A.) The Cherokees won the right to stay on their land and were deemed an independent nation.