"The decision of the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830's was more a reformulation of the national policy that had been in effect since the 1790's than a change in that policy." Examining the administration of Jackson in comparison to the traditional course, which was carried out for about 40 years earlier, can easily prove the statement above. After 1825 the federal government attempted to remove all eastern Indians to the Oklahoma area. The Cherokee Indians, to protect themselves from removal, made up a constitution which said that the Cherokee Indians were sovereign and not subject to the laws of Georgia. When the Cherokee sought help from the Congress that only allotted lands in the West and urged them to move. The Supreme Court, however, in Worcester vs. Georgia, ruled that they constituted a "domestic dependent nation" not subject to the laws of Georgia. Jackson, who agreed with the frontiersman, was so outraged that he refused to enforce the decision. Instead he made the tribe give up its Georgia lands for a reservation west of the Mississippi. According to Document A, the map shows the relationship between time and policies, which affected the Indians. From the Colonial and Confederation treaties, a significant amount of land had been acquired from the Cherokee Indians. Successively, during Washington's, Monroe's, and Jefferson's administration, more and more Indian land was being taken. The administrations during through 1790's to the 1830's had gradually acquired more and more land from the Cherokee Indians. Jackson followed those actions by the acquiring of more Cherokee lands. According to Document B, "the first of which is by raising an army, and [destroying the resisting] tribes entirely or 2ndly by forming treaties of peace with them," "under the existing circumstances of affairs, the United States have a clear right, consistently with the principles of justice .
