Andrew Jackson had forced a treaty on the Indians forcing them to give up about one half of present day Alabama and one-fifth of Georgia. To achieve his goal he encouraged the congress to adopt the removal act of 1830. This act stated that the president could grant the Indians the land west of the Mississippi River if they agreed to give up their homelands. This act also said that they would help them travel to their new location and live under the protection of the united sates government forever. He was successful in this act.

This was a new government agency created by the government to manage the Indian removal to the Western lands.

John Ross also known as Guwisguwi which means in Cherokee mythological or rare migratory bird was the chief of the Cherokee nation from 1828-1866. During the war of 1812 he served as adjutant under the rule of Andrew Jackson. The issue of the removal act split the Cherokee nation. Ross repeatedly tried to stop them from forcing the tribe to move. They became known as the national party.

Worcester v Georgia was a court case in 1832. This is about Georgia state laws that were past in the middle of the 1800s. This law prohibited non-Indians from living in Indian territories. The case began when Sam Worcester and his family refused to move to a land that was lab,Ed Indian Territory. So because of this refusal the army entered the Native American lands and arrested Worcester along with 6 other people. After being arrested Worcester took this case to court. In the end the court rules in Worcestershire favor because they believed they were violating his 14th Amendment.

This treaty was signed on December 29, 1835 in new Echota Georgia by the United States government and representatives of a minority Cherokee group called the Treaty Party.

The trail of tears was the removal of the Indians from their homelands east of the Mississippi River to present day Oklahoma. The Indians were forced to walk 800-miles West. About 18,000 Cherokee Indians died on the march.

The Indian Territory included present day Oklahoma, North and East of the Red River and also Kansas and Nebraska.