Cherokee Removal Dbq

In the year of 1828, the president Andrew Jackson was appointed to the office of the American government with this the fact of the remaining Indians tribes were important which were named “The Five Civilized Tribes” including the Cherokee and with the pass of the “Treaty of Etocha” forced the Cherokee out of the land of Georgia also known as the “Trail of Tears” where thousands upon thousands of Cherokee were killed during the extraction of the Cherokee’s land.

The Cherokee removal process dates back as early as the times of the first European encounters. When the explorers arrived in the New World, lack of immunity from disease played a role in decimating the native population. Smallpox, measles, and typhus spread everywhere and eventually, only around sixteen thousand natives remained by the 1700's. Even with the overwhelming victory of the British during the French and Indian war, the Cherokee were able to preserve many aspects of their society such as their own local governments and maintaining their crops. Nevertheless, the monarchy still ruled the region and even by the end of the Revolutionary War when the Americans had won, Constitutional policies were implemented to contain and control the native peoples. Peaceful relations existed in the beginning, but it was not until powerful resistance from the Cherokee that forced change among the settlers who kept pushing for westward expansion.

In 1831, the Cherokee nation went to court against the state of Georgia. They were disputing the state’s attempt to hold jurisdiction over their territory. Unfortunately, because they are not under the laws of the constitution, the Indian’s right to court was denied. It was not until 1835 that the Cherokee finally agreed to sign the treaty, giving up their Georgia land for that of Oklahoma.

During the war of 1812, the Creek Indians cold-bloodedly murdered more than 300 men, women and children. They were burned alive, scalped and straight out killed. In 1830, Andrew Jackson passed an act called the Indian Removal Act. This gave the power to the president to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes, such as the Choctaw and the Cherokee. Andrew Jackson proposed a treaty that would give Indian land to other Indian tribes.

Even though Andrew Jackson was not in office at that time he still managed to pass the action. Congress not having any power in Jackson they did not stop his activities. Jackson took 7,000 Army soldiers that marched down to the Cherokee land and they began to forcibly relocate the 17,000 thousand Cherokee. They invaded their land which was illegal, but he ignored all laws and force them out of their homeland. This led to the Trail of Tears of 1838; The Cherokee nation was exposed to harsh weather, diseases, and starvation. During this march to finding a new homeland about 4,000 thousand Cherokee citizens died because of everything, they were exposed to. Andrew Jackson is the only one responsible for their death. Therefore the Indian Removal Act of 1830, was wrong and it is responsible for the death of all these people in the Trail of

From the year of 1780 to the year of 1820 the Cherokee people signed treaties in an attempt to protect their homelands from new settlers moving onto Cherokee land. “Native American leaders believed that signing a treaty—even if

The Cherokee was a native tribe from Georgia. They were forced from their home and moved to the West by the United States government. It was often questioned if it would have been best for the Cherokee to stay or leave. Many may disagree because both sides have good points. It might have been safer for them to move, but the Cherokee wanted to stay on their father’s land. The government was wrong to move the Cherokee; it was illegal. The Cherokee should have stayed and defended their own land.

Then Georgia state government want to buy the land from the Cherokee because of the increase in population of the state but been denied so they can’t do nothing about it but everything changed when Andrew Jackson become president of United States and he think that the Cherokee should disappear if they don’t agree to sell their land. The Constitution not protect the Cherokee people because most of them are do what the president want to do even thought John Ross , one of the leaders of the Cherokee leaders appeal to the US Supreme Court , and they won the case. Federal Judge John Marshall recognized Cherokee is an independent country and have ownership of their own land, not to interfere in Georgia. But this result was not what effect, because the president refuses to execute. So we can say that there are many people want to protect the Cherokee but they can’t because during that time the president have almost all the power to do whatever he decided to do. That why “The trail of Tears’’ happened. There were about 70,000 people were forced to leave the homeland, experiencing numerous challenges. However, inclement weather, illness, food shortages have claimed the lives of countless people, especially the elderly and

Despite the fact that former president Thomas Jefferson believed that civilized tribes could be integrated into the United States population, this law was still widely accepted among southern states. It was also completely ignored that the tribes were already acting in a way that would be considered civilized. The Cherokee had its own government, laws, and a constitution much like the United States. In response to the law, the Cherokee went to Congress for help to protect their rights, which the treaties they had with the federal government made certain. There was a case Cherokee Nation v. Georgia in 1831, but the Chief Justice Marshall made the false claim that Indians were nomads and had no need for their land. He also said that the Indians were like “wards”

After many years of unfair treatment by the United States, the Cherokee were faced with a decision, do they leave in hopes of saving their nation or do they stay and fight for their land. What path would have offered the best chance of survival for the Cherokee? People may disagree because some members of the Cherokee tribe wanted to stay and defend their ancestors land, while others wanted to leave their legacy behind and move out west. In 1838 the Cherokee were forced out of Georgia by President Jackson, leaving behind the land that was passed down from generation to generation of Cherokee. The Cherokee leaving behind their land and moving to the west offered the best chance of survival for their nation.

On November 28, 1785 the Cherokee tribe signed the first peace treaty between themselves and the Americans; the treaty was named The Treaty of Hopewell. This said that the Cherokee land was, in fact, theirs and it couldn’t be taken from them. The Cherokee occupied the lands of present day Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida. This treaty held its own for a few decades until Georgia decided that they wanted to deal with the “Indian problem” (Wing, Trail of Tears). By 1802 Georgia and the president at the time, Thomas Jefferson, signed an agreement. This agreement was called the Georgia Compact and its sole purpose was to take the Indian lands and force them to move out of Georgia boundaries (Conley 46). The Cherokees did not want to leave their homeland but the Americans, the south specifically, did not give them much

The people of Cherokee do not think that expansion of the United States territory is sufficient justification for the government to take their land. The real motive is to take advantage of the forestry and mining opportunities that exist on the Cherokee

The Cherokee knew that because they were unknowing of the area that there would be a struggle for survival. This left them with “no pre-knowledge favors”. They also argued that any parts that would inviting was taken by natives already on the land; the Cherokee would be seen as outsiders and not welcomed by these natives. From the little knowledge they had of the far greater part of the region, they came to the conclusion severely lacked the necessities for life, things like water and wood. Water and wood as need for their agriculture success. The Cherokee delegates knew that they would struggle with communication between tribes due to language and custom divide. They saw the people who were already there as people who would ravish neighbors

In 1836, the United States and the state of Georgia forced the Cherokee Indian tribe to leave their home in Georgia and move on to the West. Long story short, the tribe did not want to move, and they also trusted that they had the legal right to stay. In the early 1830’s this disagreement brought two movements at law in the Supreme Court

As American settlers had continued to populate the expansive land the United States of America which had lay before them, the Native Americans, who had resided there for hundreds of years prior to the Revolutionary War, had become increasingly troubled with every passing moment. Soon, they realized, they would be overtaken entirely by the settlers of the newfound nation. As such, in 1830, the Congress of the United States had passed the Indian Removal Act, which had forced all Native American tribes into specially-designated reservations, where their underlying spiritual bonds had effectively been permanently separated. Indeed, the Indian Removal Act had been extremely powerful, but not in ways that had been beneficial to either party. Hence, its passing and subsequent institution, manifested as the infamous Trail of Tears, had been an error on the part of the United States Congress, in all basic aspects of morality, politics, the Constitution, and practicality of survival and thriving. Specifically, moral aspects included concerns relating to driving Native Americans from their long-time homeland without their consent, alongside the breaking of their spiritual statuses. Political perspectives against the Indian Removal Act had revolved around the notions of value, progress, and improvement, paired with the ramifications and intentions of treaties passed by Congress. Constitutional viewpoints had protested against the Act in that they had insisted the lack of reasoned