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Cherokee Sovereignty and the Supreme Court Rulings
Explain how the Cherokee Nation defended their self-government through legal suits culminating in Worcester v. Georgia (1832).
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Native American Resistance and the Indian Removal Act
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Examine 19th-century Indigenous resistance movements, legal battles for sovereignty, and the impact of federal Indian removal policies.
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5.T4.5Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeExplain 19th century conflicts between Native Peoples and national, state, and local governments in the United States over land ownership and rights to self-government.
5.T4.5.bMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th GradePresident Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act (1830), which forced native communities to move from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to territory west of the Mississippi River