Analyze The Consequences Of A Speedy Removal

The money granted by the Indian Removal Act would not reach the amount needed to cover all costs. He expected it would take tens ofmillions of dollars, but the cost of Indian lives and suffering was priceless. The Indians begged for protection and to be left alone. They didn’t want to be crowded anymore. The Americans didn’t trust the Indians at all, but they thought that they could resolve the problem without conflicting with their conscience or moral sensibility.

opinion. jackson believes that seizing the land of the indians is a natural obligation for

When first read by the reader many different things could be going through their minds, one assumptions could be that the “Indians” that the author is

Every Indian living in North America is Live Indians but not only are Legal Indians. The author uses something said by his son’s girlfriend, to compare Indians with sheeps. She said: You can’t herd them. They won’t follow. And they’re too heavy to lift”.

This would be great for farmers to grow new crops. Also, this brought about large grasslands for cattle herders. But what about the people that were displaced in this situation? Did they not have a say in it? He does not describe abandoned dwellings as those of people that would have benefited from having their land razed. The people who originally had their pieces of land along the construction route, must have felt quite a bit “Indian” at the moment. Who else would come in, take your land away, and relocate you for their benefit? The wonderful United States of America would be the answer to that question.

Jackson, Andrew. «Miller Center.» 10 de July de 1832. Miller Center. Monday October 2012. <http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3636>.

When Americans expanded their country west, they interfered with many American Indian Tribes. In a letter he wrote to congress, he explained “This emigration should be voluntary… (but) if they remain within the limits of the states they must be subject to their laws” (Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress December 7, 1829). Andrew Jackson offered to let the American Indians stay if they followed their laws. But in 1831, Jackson forced the Native Americans out of their homelands starting the Indian Removal. According to a reprinted in Niles Weekly Register, the Cherokee’s said “We wish to remain on the land of our fathers. We have a perfect and original right to remain without interruption or molestation”. Jackson lied to the American Indians about allowing them to stay. Jackson did not act democratically because he did not allow the American Indians to stay and forced them to move west. Jackson was fair to his supporters, but not to

“Mansi, your grandfather was very religious, but he also knew that India is not the same now that it was when his father was a priest,” Dad thought very carefully as he spoke. “He had to admit that no matter how hard I worked, it would be difficult to raise you and your brother here if we wanted secure futures for

There were several motives for the removal of the Indians from their lands, to include racism and land lust. Since they first arrived, the white Americans hadn’t been too fond of the Native Americans. They were thought to be highly uncivilized and they had to go. In his letter to Congress addressing the removal of the Indian tribes, President Jackson

Richard H. Pratt in the article “Kill the Indian, and Save the Man” state that certain

The way that the situation is described in the two readings is very different. In Jackson’s “On Indian Removal”, he says, “These remove hundreds and almost thousands of miles at their own expense, purchase the lands they occupy, and support themselves at their new homes from the moment of their arrival….. How many thousands of our own people would gladly embrace the opportunity of removing to the West on such conditions!”. Here he is saying that Indian Removal is an opportunity for the Indians to purchase new land and start a new life somewhere else and the

Since the Americans thought poorly of Indians, they weren’t mindful of connection between families. One Quote that represents the validity of this statement is Red Clay Cherokee Nation, Doherty and Jaffe Document 15, “Beloved Martha, If we Cherokees are to be driven to the west by the cruel hand of oppression to seek a new home in the west, it is very uncertain that I will ever have the pleasure of seeing you.” The statement between these strongly bonded people shows, Some of the Cherokee Indians did not bet the chance to see others that they have befriended or people close to their heart, so if the truth was to be that they would travel west beyond the mississippi, they were preparing for the worst with goodbyes. Another Proving piece of evidence, is a story from The film, The Trail Of Tears. There was a girl was taken from her mother and father who fought to protect her and keep her close.

In the 1830’s America was expanding its border and completing manifest destiny. The one thing standing in the way of Americans moving west was the Native Americans. President Andrew Jackson had a dilemma on his hands. Jackson wanted to create a plan that would make everyone happy. But in the end, Jackson had the Native American removed from their land and led to the “Trail of Tears” where many Native Americans would lose their lives. Looking at the articles by F.P Prucha, Mary E. Young and Alfred A. Cave each one says that the Indians needed to be removed from their land for a different reason.

She explains her thesis by stating “Others who write stories of migration often talk of arrival at a new place as a loss of communal memory and the erosion of an original culture. I want to talk of arrival as a gain,” (360). The key points of the text include Mukherjee describing her transition between Calcutta and the United States, and what it means to be and American and how culture influences that aspect. The information in the text is significant; the people of America are a part of a melting pot, sometimes it is hard for them to find the distinction between American culture and their own. The information in Mukherjee’s story is clear and specific, unbiased, and is relevant to the purpose of the story. I believe Mukherjee has achieved her purpose of informing her audience about cultural differences; she presents certain strengths and weaknesses within the text.

The sentence that captures the main idea of the author is… “The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United States, to individual states, and to the Indians themselves.”