Cherokee Removal Timeline
Category: Outro
Atualizado: 13 fev 2023
note: when only a year was stated for date, i default the month and day to jan 1. this gives an approximation and will make the timeline look about right.
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Created byjudah
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Senate debates treaty while Ross lobbies that it be rejected.Hernando de Soto makes contact with the CherokeeStart of smallpox outbreaks among Native communitiesBritish and Cherokee begin signing treaties of allyshipThe Articles of Friendship and Commerce signed between the Cherokee and the BritishProclamation of 1763: King George III signs treaty with Cherokee forbidding colonists from settling on any lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.Cherokee sign the first treaty transferring land to the BritishUS signs comprehensive treaty with Cherokee: Treaty of Hopewell.Treaty of Houston replaces Treaty of HopewellFirst Treaty of Tellico signed after urging by TN Senator Andrew Jackson.Moravian missionaries allowed in Cherokee territory; Moravians establish churches and schools among Cherokee towns.The Pact - federal government steps in, acquires land taken in a corrupt deal and promises to clear all Georgia land of indigenous tribes to make way for further settlement.Chickamaugan leader Doublehead killed by Cherokee leader, The Ridge.President Jefferson offers to give western lands to Cherokee willing to leave; Cherokee begin writing their own council decisions in a traditional English formal legal language.Cherokee scholar Sequoyah begins work on a Cherokee system of written symbols (like our alphabet, but more similar to syllable sounds)Red Stick faction (Creeks fighting for Tecumseh’s cause) attack Ft. Mims in Alabama and kill hundreds of white people.Treaty of 1819: In exchange for giving white settlers even more land, Cherokee agree on a final boundary for their nation, a boundary never to be reduced again.Cherokee council creates a bicameral legislatureCherokee create system of district courts and marshals; Sequoyah finalizes his 86 character syllabary, allowing Cherokee language to be written.Cherokee establish National Superior Court.Georgia Representative John Forsyth puts forward a resolution call for US to force Cherokee out of Georgia.Elias Boudinot establishes first Native American run newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix. Distributed nationally. John Forsyth, Georgia Governor, approves law that asserts Cherokee laws are null and void beginning in two years and that Georgia laws would apply.The Ridge leads warriors into clearing out white miners and settlers from the Cherokee Nation.Congress passes Indian Removal Act and President Andrew Jackson signsUS Supreme Court in Cherokee Nation vs Georgia rules federal government has no jurisdiction or power since Cherokee are NOT a foreign state, but rather a ‘domestic dependent nation.’US Supreme Court in Worcester vs Georgia rules that the loyalty oath law is unconstitutional because it violated Cherokee sovereignty. President Jackson refuses to enforce.Split in Cherokee Nation - John Ross favors staying and fighting, The Ridge favors a negotiated removal.The Ridge and Elias Boudinot sign Treaty of New Echota while John Ross is in DC.Períodos
French and Indian War - most tribes ally with France to fight British and its colonists. Cherokee side with British.Period of rare, intermittent contact between Europeans and Cherokee. Cherokee obtain guns, horses, and alcohol.Cherokee establish own police force: Light Horse GuardReturn Jonathan Meigs secures four agreements with Cherokee that obtain more homelands for the US.Tecumseh killed in battle; The Ridge (Cherokee leader) confronts large meeting of pro-Tecumseh CherokeeRed Sticks defeated by Cherokee warriors led by The Ridge allied with American troops under Major General Andrew Jackson. John Ross was among the warriors who fought.Gold discovered in Cherokee lands. Gold rush begins.
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