Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote<span> as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Answer: Their journey became known as<u> the "Trail of Tears."</u>
Explanation/context:
In the court case, <em>Worcester v. Georgia</em> (1832), Samuel Worcester was a Christian minister working among the Cherokee and was supportive of the Cherokee cause. To block the activity of a man like Rev. Worcester, the state of Georgia passed a law prohibiting white persons to live within the Cherokee Nation territory without permission from the Georgia state government. Worcester and other missionaries challenged this law, and the case rose to the level of a Supreme Court decision. The decision by the Supreme Court, written by Chief Justice Marshall, struck down the Georgia law and reprimanded Georgia for interfering in the affairs of the Cherokee Nation. Marshall wrote that Indian nations are "distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights."
President Andrew Jackson chose not to enforce the court's decision. He said at the time: "The decision of the Supreme Court has fell stillborn, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate." He told the Cherokee that they would need to operate under the jurisdiction of the state of Georgia or else relocate. This was a step in the direction of what became known as the "Trail of Tears," when the Cherokee were removed from Georgia and moved to territory in Oklahoma.
In 1800s life in the US was not easy. The lands was big, wild and still mostly untamed. The travel was slow and often wrought with peril as the dangers loomed on the roads, if there were any at all. Most of the Americans, two thirds of them in fact lived near the Atlantic coast and that is within 50 miles of it. Also, west of the Appalachian mounts only one tenth of the Americans lived there.
A. The accident at Three Mile Island
