![]() ![]() Georgia found a sympathetic ear in the federal government when Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828. ![]() In December 1828, the Georgia legislature asserted that state laws and authority would extend over the Cherokee Nation despite previous federal treaties and guarantees. They expected their sovereign treaty rights to be respected. In 1823, the Council of Chiefs asserted, “It is the fixed and unalterable determination of this nation never to cede one foot more of our land.” The Cherokees had adopted many aspects of American culture, including agriculture, urban living, clothing, written language, a written constitution, education, and the ownership of slaves. Later, after gold was discovered in Cherokee lands in the 1820s, American’s desire for the land dramatically increased. Initially, white settlers wanted to take over Cherokee lands to raise cotton. In Georgia, this coercion targeted the Cherokee people. In the 1820s and 1830s, Native Americans were being pushed out of their native lands by force and by treaty to settle beyond the Mississippi River in Oklahoma. ![]()
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