1. Thinking Question Describe your “home”.
(Your house, neighborhood, city, etc.)
What makes it your “home”?
What makes it special?
How do you feel about it?

3. United States History
Monday, February 11, 2019

4. “Indian Removal” and the case of WORCESTER v. GEORGIA

5. The Southeastern Tribes; Early 1800s

6. Jefferson’s Advice to the Cherokee:
"My friends and children, chiefly of the Cherokee Nation, …become farmers, learn the use of the plough and the hoe, enclose your grounds and employ that labor in their cultivation which you formerly employed in hunting and in war; …Go on, my children, in the same way and be assured the further you advance in it the happier and more respectable you will be."

7. Cherokee Adaptations to White Society
Adopted the system of private ownership of land
Developed a written language
Adopted a Cherokee Constitution, modeled on the U.S. Constitution

8. Cherokee – U.S. Relations
1802
1828
1790s – Treaty between the Cherokee and U.S.; Cherokees cede some land in exchange for protection of the remainder
1802 – Georgia cedes western land claims to the U.S. in exchange for a promise to encourage the Cherokee to leave
1820s – Pressure on the Cherokee increases as more Georgia settlers move west
1828 – Gold is discovered on Cherokee lands in Georgia
1828 – Andrew Jackson is elected President
1790s

9. The Indian Removal Act (1830)
Passed by Congress at the urging of President Jackson
Required all Native Americans in the Eastern U.S. to relocate to lands west of the Mississippi River
Most of present-day Oklahoma (the “Indian Territory”) was reserved for Native American settlement

10. Worcester v. Georgia (1832) The Facts:
Worcester was a missionary working on Cherokee land; he refused to comply with a Georgia law mandating a license for whites working on Native lands
Worcester is arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned by the State of Georgia
The Issue: Can Georgia enforce its laws on Cherokee lands?

11. Worcester v. Georgia
The Court’s Decision: Georgia’s law is struck down;
The Cherokee are sovereign on their lands
President Jackson: “Justice Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
“John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it.”

12. The Trail of Tears
Many Cherokees refused to leave their lands in Georgia
1838 – Federal troops forcibly removed the Cherokee at gunpoint
The Cherokee were forced to march westward in the winter of
More than a quarter of the tribe died during the journey west
This journey became known as the “Trail of Tears”
1838

13. Writing Assignment:
Imagine that you are a member of the Cherokee tribe in 1838.
After years of resistance, you are being forced by the U.S. Army to leave your home and relocate to the “Indian Territory,” west of the Mississippi River.
Write a one-page journal entry describing your thoughts, emotions, and actions.

14. Homework Textbook: Chapter 11,1 Sections 1 & 4
HW Quiz: Tuesday/Wednesday, February 19/20