HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Party System, Wilmot Proviso, Free Soil Party
Document Summary
Andfrew jackson want natives land to the west. A l;and outside of amervican borers reserved fro natives get 1 million $ to build therire land in (present day ohio and indian tetority just above texas) People of georgia are tryi ng to get native out of good cotton growing land. The cher fight back by saying they are soverign people they mnuist thereforr make treaties. Cher take case to supremem court to sue georgia showing they have title to theyre land (they atre n ot american citizens) Jacksons response was having no intention of living up to what the supreme court has said. Resulting in internal conflict within the cher who want to fight vs those who want to take the $ and go. The ones that want to leave in 1835 sign treaty. Jackson gets army to forcibly march them out.
