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Georgia ceded all lands west of its current border to teh USA in exchange for $1.25 million and title to all indian lands within its borders
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General Andrew Jackson led The Battle of Horshoe Bend between the Creek Indians in Southern Georgia and Alabama. In this battle, he soundly defeated the Cefeated the Inaidans and destroyed their ability to mount any further resistence.
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William McIntosh without authorization form the other Creek Chiefs signed the Treaty of Indian Springs forfeiting all Creek lands to the United States
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The Cherokee National Capital is founded at New Echota
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The first National Road was constructed using the McAdamization process (gravel)
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As punishment for ceding Creek land to the USA, McIntosh was executed
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The Cherokee Nation adopts its own Constitution modeled afterthe US Constitution and the Constitution of the state of Georgia.
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Map of the Cherokee Nation as defined in the Cherokee Constitution
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Andrew jackson defeated President John Quincy Adams in arguably the nastinest Presidential Election ever.
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America's first Gold Rush started when gold was discovered near Dahlonega, Georgia on Cherokee land. illegal miners invaded the Cherokee Nation to mine for gold.
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The State of Georgia reacted to both the Cherokee Constitution and the discovery of gold on Cherokee land by outlawing the Cherokee Nation and making it illegal for Cherokees to mine for gold. The state send in the militia to protect the mines form illegal mining.
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Major Ridge and the "treaty party" without official authorization from the Cherokee Nation sign a treaty which ceded all Cherokee lands to the USA.
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President Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act which forcibly removed Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Chicsaw, Choctaw, Sauka and Fox tribes to Indian Territy (present day Oklahoma)
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The US Supreme Court determined that the Cherokee Nation was a Domestic Dependent Nation and not a Soveriegn State.
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Samuel Worchester was arrested for occupying Cherokee land without a state license. The Supreme Court ruled that the individual states, had no authority in American Indian affairs.
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The forced removal of Creek Indians to Indian Territory in present day Oklahoma.
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The forced march of Cherokee Indians from their homeland in the Cherokee Nation to Indian Territory in present day Oklahoma. During the Trail of tears 1/4 of all Cherokee died.
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Major Ridge is executed for violating the Cherokee Constitutional ban on selling or ceding Cherokee land to the United States government.
