Ethnic cleansing

Trail of Tears - Cherokees in mountains of Georgia and western North Carolina

- Adopted constitution declaring their separation as a domestic dependent nation

- Georgia declared state law extended over the Cherokees living in its boundaries

- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) John Marshall declared that the court did not have jurisdiction to rule on the case however, the Cherokees had an “unquestionable right” to their land

- Georgia then passes a law declaring Cherokees had to acquire a license to live withing Georgia

- Worcester v. Georgia (1832) declared that the Georgia law was unconstitutional because the Cherokee nation was a “distinct political nation”