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In 1831, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia declared that Native American tribes were sovereign nations. Andrew Jackson, obviously, saw different. Any way that the "Trail of Tears" doesn't happen? What are some of the long-term effects?
 
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In 1831, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia declared that Native American tribes were sovereign nations. Andrew Jackson, obviously, saw different. Any way that the "Trail of Tears" doesn't happen? What are some of the long-term effects?

IIRC Jackson won in part out of his appeal as a populist leader (in Georgia, "populist leader" also included "leader who will let us steal Cherokee land" in the package), so his opponent might have been slightly more open to it sticking. The main problem is, however, that Jackson's presidency basically launched something lie 12 years of one party quasi-dictatorship where the presidency was more a matter of backroom deals than elections, so I'm not sure there's much in the way of politically credible opposition to Jackson that would butterfly away the Era of Good Feelings and the nastiness that came with it. Maybe if you have him killed during the battle of New Orleans, but that doesn't stop the possibility of another war of 1812 general becoming a populist leader on his war creds, although he was, iirc one of the few who had major battlefield creds.
 
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