The culmination of tensions between the Cherokee and various states , including Georgia , led to the forced migration of Native Americans , later known as the Trail of Tears . President Andrew Jackson authorized the Indian Removal Act in 1830 , which would allow a take over of the gold mining areas among other places . The Cherokee Nation turned to the federal court system to avoid being forced off their ancestral lands . The Supreme Court first ruled in favor of the State of Georgia in the 1831 case Cherokee Nation v. Georgia , but the following year , in Worcester v. Georgia reversed this decision to recognize the Cherokee as a sovereign nation . Jackson proceeded with removal of remaining Cherokee from the North Georgia gold fields
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Georgia Gold Rush