The federal court case between Worcester and Georgia occurred in September 1831. The 2 parties were Samuel A. Worcester verses the State of Georgia. The reason for the case was that Worcester and several other individuals were found multiple times within the Cherokee nation without a license and they also didn’t take the oath to support and defend the constitution and laws of the State of Georgia. Worchester opposed the laws because he didn’t believe that Georgia could not maintain the prosecution of the Cherokee nation because it violated the constitution and treaties between the US and the Cherokee nation. (oyez.org) Samuel Worchester is a native or Vermont and was a minister with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The board sent Worchester on a mission in the Cherokee nation in Brainerd, Tennessee. He was then transferred to the capital city of New Ecota in Georgia where he was tasked with …show more content…
Georgia refused and completely ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling by refusing to release the missionaries and adding pressure to remove the Indians. President Jackson did not enforce the decision to protect the Indians but instead ordered the Cherokee to relocate or fall under Georgia’s jurisdiction. This resulted in the Cherokees to sign a removal treaty in 1835 and in 1838 the U.S. Army entered the Cherokee nation and forced all of the Cherokees and marched them to present day Indian Territory in Oklahoma. This later became known as the Trail of Tears. The new governor under Georgia encouraged the missionaries to accept a pardon. They were released from prison and then they gave up on the Cherokee campaign. The Supreme Court later reviewed what Marshall said and asserted that the Native American tribes had an inherent form of national sovereignty and the right of self-determination. (New Georgia