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What happened after the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of Cherokee sovereignty in Worcester v. Georgia (1832)?
Jackson's administration declined to enforce the verdict; removal rested on a treaty signed by a minority faction. The Choctaw, removed first, later sent famine relief to Ireland.
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The Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears was the forced removal of the southeastern Native nations — Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Cherokee — west of the Mississippi under the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Of some 16,000 Cherokee driven out in 1838-39, around 4,000 died. The Supreme Court had ruled for the Cherokee; the ruling was ignored.
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