The supreme court case worcester vs georgia was a small victory for the cherrokee nation becuase why

It struck down the Georgia laws that would take Cherokee lands

Explanation:

The case of Worcester v. Georgia was initially caused by Georgia's new law to prohibit the Native Americans from entering their ancestral land without a license.  The state of Georgia did this because they wanted to take Cherokee's lands and use the resources there to sustain its economy.

Worcester brought the case to the court and argue that this law was unconstitutional. He argued that the ownership of the land belong to the Cherokee and Georgia should treat the land like Cherokee's private property.  The Court sided with Worcester. This decision eventually path the way for tribal sovereignty in the United States.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)