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How did the discovery of gold in Georgia change the relationship between the Cherokee Nation and the white settlers?

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When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in Georgia, whites poured onto Cherokee lands by the thousands, ignoring treaties, burning villages, and flaunting the U.S. Constitution and the Non-Intercourse laws passed by Congress

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