The United States government's Indian Removal policy of the 1830s was a series of forced removals of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States. The Cherokee were forcibly removed and referred to as the "Trail of Tears." Worcester v. Georgia, a landmark case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1867, held that the federal government could not force Indians off their land without compensation or just compensation.

In 1835, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law which allowed for the removal of the Cherokee people known as the "Cherokee Nation" from their ancestral lands in present-day Oklahoma.
President Andrew Jackson's role in the Indian Removal policy is significant. He was the first president to sign the act and he was also the first president to sign the Trail of Tears Act into law. He was the first president to sign the act into law and he was the first president to sign it into law.
The Treaty of New Echota was a treaty between the Cherokee and the state of Georgia in 1838 which gave the state of Georgia permission to remove the Cherokee people from their ancestral lands in present day Oklahoma.
The Cherokee opposed the treaty and refused to sign it. They believed that they had a right to remain on their land and that the state of Georgia should compensate them for any loss.
The state of Georgia eventually won the case against the Cherokee in Worcester v. Georgia and the Cherokee were forced to move westward.
The Cherokee were forcibly removed and referred to as the "Trail of Tears."
