Essay #2. Once Europeans Began Coming To Our Native Land,

In Jackson’s mind, he expected the Indians to thrive as they did in their current home, except there would be no white men. Three chiefs, each one from the Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Ottawa tribes, came forward to the White House and told about their suffering. They said they were promised land as fertile as Illinois, but received land that a snake couldn’t live on. They could not live in the prairie when they were from the woods. Thousands of Indian people suffered because Jackson heard what they said

Jackson wrote “I suggest for your consideration….setting apart an ample district west of the Mississippi….to be guaranteed to the Indian tribes as long as they shall occupy it….” (Doc D). Although Jackson forced the Native Americans to leave, he gave them a land in the west of Mississippi as long as they live in it. Now that Jackson gave the Native Americans a land, there will be no more conflicts between them and the white people. Some of the Native Americans did not want to leave their land such as the Cherokee because they had the right to stay since it is the land of their fathers and because they were the ones who came to the lands first. In the Memorial of the Cherokee Nation, the Cherokees said “The country west of the Arkansas territory is unknown to us…. The far greater part of that region is….badly supplied with food and water…. All our neighbors… would speak a language totally different from ours, and practice different customs….” (Doc E). Cherokees did not want to leave for many reasons such that the west of the Arkansas region is unknown to them, the greater part of the region is badly supplied with food and water, and all of their neighbors speak different language

Jacksonian's saw themselves as promoting "individual liberty" but brought with them the exact opposite. Very simply "you cannot remain where you now are" (Doc. F) stands in defiance against liberty by promoting the removal of a certain population, the natives in this case, and relocating them. On the standpoint of agreeing with them on individual liberty, a person can't find any justification for removal without infringing on the strict bases of liberty. To add insult to injury Doc. G depicts the Trail of Tears when the Indians had to make their dangerous relocation. However, this wasn't even allowed to happen by the Supreme Court but Jackson advanced on anyways delivering the message of basically try and stop me. With not only the betrayal of the Indians but also the Supreme Court the Jacksonian's stepped on both the Constitution and

Imagine being taken out of your home and told that you must leave to a new, foreign land and leave the only thing that you know. This is what Native Americans during Andrew Jackson’s presidency had to live through. America was growing rapidly, expanding into the lower south of the U.S. During the 19th century white settlers moving into the area, were faced with Native Americans living on the land. These settlers were looked upon as a major obstacle for expansion of the United States. Driven by gold fever and the ideas for new business, the settlers were looking towards the government to help them take the land away from the Natives. Presidents had acknowledged the issue of Natives and whites coexisting and the problems that would be addressed, but it wasn’t until Andrew Jackson stepped into American history that a change would’ve be made.

Through this speech, my client acknowledges the adversities of which the Cherokees must have experienced in response to the Removal. Since the Cherokee's lost their so called "homes", they lost familiarity. However, Mr. Jackson shared an anecdote that our friends are not alone in these emotions. Ancestors of American citizens were once in a state of fear of what is yet to come in the 'New World.' The Indians were given a new home not a whole 'New World.' With the Removal Act, Indians where given a fresh start with the addition of larger land for them to be able to grow and develop without inferring with the United States's

How would you feel if you were forced to leave your home and never come back? The Indian Removal Act forced the Native Americans to move into new Indian Territory even though the Indians inhabited the lands first. In 1830, Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act and forced Native Americans to sign treaties. These treaties forced Native Americans to move to lands west of the Mississippi (Davidson 339). The Indian Removal Act was therefore out of order because the Indians were the first inhabitants of the land, the Americans cheated them on treaties and trades, and the Indians were treated horribly by the Americans.

This act was created to remove all Native Americans mainly from Georgia, all the way to Oklahoma. Even though he had already allowed the natives to live in Georgia, went to the Supreme Court, and when the natives won the case, Andrew Jackson had still pushed them away out of Georgia. Thousands of Cherokee members opposed this, but the US Army still forced removal on the Natives. He had come up with the act because the colonists had wanted their land, so some of the colonists also decided to pay the Cherokee members to move west to Oklahoma. In Document F, the drawing by the author’s point of view is that Andrew Jackson is not honorable. He has a Native American headdress on, which is sarcastic because he had passed the Indian Removal Act, which had removed all of the Native Americans on a long hard journey, which had killed most of the population. Document F relates to our notes on the Trail of Tears, since the drawing shows him with a Native American headdress on, which is sarcastic for meaning that he was very cruel, and in the notes, it also proves

Growing up in the west, Jackson “fought Indians as a militia officer” (Tindall 331) and considered the removal of Indians his primary presidential priority (Tindall 333). In his statement regarding the Indian Removal Act of 1830, he argues that removal is necessary as it “puts an end to all possible danger of collision” between Indian tribes and the American slaves and reasons that removing Indians could potential lead to Indians “cast[ing] off their savage habits and becom[ing]n interesting, civilized, and Christian community” (Jackson). The basis of this argument relies entirely on whether the Indians were a savage and uncivilized community that posed a direct threat to the American government. Primarily, Dale Van Every, an American writer, argues that the “forces that led to removal did not come ... from the poor white frontiersmen who were the neighbors of the Indians. They came from industrialization … and the greed of businessmen” (Zinn 136). The tribes, therefore, did not pose threats to neighboring Americans but were rather simply an obstacle to the rapidly expanding American. Secondarily, many Native American tribes had actually become increasingly civilized (or increasingly American) by the passing of the act. A good example of a Native American tribe whose advancements were discredited by biased

Ever since the very first colonies were formed, the Native Americans have been forced out of their beloved inveterate lands in order for the Americans to be able to expand their new found territory. Yet, nothing ever changed and the same economic policies continued, bringing nothing but destruction to the Native people. Meanwhile, the political and social policies were dramatically distorted, deceiving the tribes into losing land and cultural values. Jackson’s efforts to remove any and all Cherokee Indians to territory west of the Mississippi in the 1830’s maintained the same economical attitudes as before but changed the social and political policies set by the previous colonies and the United States government towards the Native Americans.

Disease and Medicine along with war and religion were three ways American history has changed. When the colonists came over from Europe they unknowingly changed the world forever in ways they couldn't have imagined. These effects were present to both Native Americans and Europeans. Some of these changes made life easier for both Native Americans and Europeans but some made relations worse too. And some effects wouldn't show up until it was too late.

Why Andrew Jackson Was One of America’s Most Evil Presidents Andrew Jackson was one of America's most evil presidents. Andrew Jackson is one of America's most evil presidents for many reasons. He may have been known as a hero for being in a revolutionary war as a kid, but he did many evil things that most of his followers don’t know about. One of the reasons why Andrew Jackson is America’s most evil presidents is because he drove out the Indians. He forcibly made them travel a 1,000 mile trek called the “Trail of Tears.”

It was said in May of 1838 by John G. Burnett that It looked like Cherokees were being dragged out of their homes and being “loaded like sheep and cattle into six hundred and forty-five wagons”. He also said that most did not have shoes on or blankets. On the flip side Andrew Jackson in March 1837 said that he was “blessing them with civilization”. He also called the native Americans an “ill-fated race” and and “unhappy race”. He said that they would receive “ paternal care of the General Government” we know that today he only created the Indian Removal Act for his own greed, he did it for the sole reason that he found gold in Georgia where the Cherokees’ lived. Andrew Jackson also saw the Native Americans as a threat to the expansion of the U.S.

The Indian Removal Act was sponsored racism as seen by the words of Andrew Jackson. One example was when he wrote, “… enable them to purse happiness in their own way and under their own rude institutions.” The use of the words “rude institutions” implies that the Indians were less then Americans and that their way of living was incorrect. Also Jackson called the Indians savages but called Americans happy people. He felt that the Indians did nothing important with the land there for Americans had the right to this land. This showed that he believed that Americans deserved more then the Indians because the Indians had less extensive cities and farms. Continuing on, Jackson also referenced the Indians as “red men of the South and West” which took value away from the Native American Culture and made them seem like a less civilized culture. Lastly, Jackson explained, “… under the protection of the government and through the influence of good counsels, to cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, christian, community.” By saying this Jackson is implying that Indians are disorganized and uncivilized, and that only by the help of the Americans will they maybe become a good community. This exalts the American and degrades the Indian people and their

Although Jackson didn’t hate the Indians, he thought that the government should treat them as wards. Wards didn't have any or much political power. Jackson also thought that white people and native wouldn't get along. Today in society many different races actually do get along and work together. Later in 1828 Georgia passed a law that gave the Cherokee Indians no legal protection if the state took their land. Giving the Indians no protection of there homes causes many problems for the Indians. If the state took their land then the Indians would have to pack up their families and move to a new place. Although today's people see it was very wrong of them, in that time Jackson must of believe that it was the right action against the Indians,

A summary comparison of views regarding the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Was it an act of humanitarianism intended to help and save the Native American culture from the white settlers, as Robert V. Remini has argued? Or was his intent to destroy the tribal culture and to get rid of the Native Americans, as Anthony F.C Wallace has argued?