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Cherokee Cases Reference library
John R. Wunder
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2 ed.)
collective name of two companion cases of the 1830s: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 5 Pet. (30 U.S.) 1 (
Cherokee Cases Reference library
Tim Alan Garrison
The Oxford Companion to United States History
(1831 and 1832).
The U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) and ...
gold rushes
Sudden influxes of people to newly discovered gold fields. The most famous gold rush was to California, where in 1848 gold was found by a Swiss settler, J. A. Sutter. As news spread, adventurers from ...
Indian Removal Act
A law passed on May 28, 1830, to relocate eastern Indian tribes to land west of the Mississippi. Promoted by President Andrew Jackson in order to acquire land within state ...
John McLean
Associate Justice, 1830–61• Born: Mar. 11, 1785, Morris County, N.J.• Education: studied at home with private tutors; read law in the office of Arthur St. Clair, Jr., in Cincinnati• ...
Kagama, United States v.
118 U.S. 375 (1886), argued 2 Mar. 1886, decided 10 May 1886 by vote of 9 to o; Miller for the Court. Kagama applied the broad principles governing Indian relations that Chief Justice John Marshall ...
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
187 U.S. 553 (1903), argued 23 Oct. 1902, decided 5 Jan. 1903 by vote of 9 to 0; White for the Court. In Lone Wolf, the Supreme Court recognized a near-absolute plenary congressional power over ...
Lydia Maria Child
(1802–80),Massachusetts Abolitionist, whose Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans (1833) won many to the antislavery cause, as did her widely circulated Correspondence (1860) ...
Native Americans
(NAGPRA)[Le]A major piece of legislation that became law in the USA on 16 November 1990 and which provides a series of rights by which native groups can influence the deposition and treatment of ...
Sequoyah
The name of the Cherokee Indian (c. 1770–1843) who invented the Cherokee syllabary; the sequoia (redwood) tree is named after him.
Smith Thompson
Associate Justice, 1823–43• Born: Jan. 17, 1768, Amenia, N.Y.• Education: College of New Jersey (Princeton), B.A., 1788; read law with James Kent in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.• Previous government service: ...
South
Region including the present states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, West Virginia, ...
William Johnson
Associate Justice, 1804–34• Born: Dec. 27, 1771, Charleston, S.C.• Education: College of New Jersey (Princeton), B.A., 1790; studied law with Charles Cotesworth Pinckney in Charleston• Previous ...
William Wirt
(1772–1834),Virginia lawyer and U.S. attorney general under Monroe and Adams (1817–29), was the presidential candidate of the Anti-Masonic party (1832). His first book, the popular Letters of the ...
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