# Who are the worst Americans?

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**Created:** [December 21, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-worst-americans/478211 "2008-12-21T19:37:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-worst-americans/478211/201 "2008-12-29T23:10:26Z")

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> [@spoke-](#):
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> No, **Cap** , upon further review, it was actually part of the [Treaty of New Echota](http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/che0439.htm):

And then taken away…see the amendment at the end:

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> WHEREAS the undersigned were authorized at the general meeting of the Cherokee people held at New Echota as above stated, to make and assent to such alterations in the preceding treaty as might be thought necessary, and whereas the President of the United States has expressed his determination not to allow any pre-emptions or reservations his desire being that the whole Cherokee people should remove together and establish themselves in the country provided for them west of the Mississippi river.
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> ARTICLE 1.  
> It is therefore agreed that all the pre-emption rights and reservations provided for in articles 12 and 13 shall be and are hereby relinquished and declared void. . . .

The Georgia law of '28 did provide for 160 acres as well.

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