How Did Settlers Change Native American Culture

Christopher Columbus changed the culture of the Indians as he forced, captured, and enslaved most of them. Natives that were forced into labor had to gather gold and if they didn’t wear a copper coin had their hands chopped off and bled to death. Captured natives were forced on to ships and were transported to Europe for slavery but more than half of them died on the way. Natives that were enslaved had to do long hardworking labor and would also have been raped by the soldiers of columbus. The Natives resulted in revolt against these crimes against them. Indians would go against Columbus’s men by either running away or fighting back to reclaim their land. Most runaways were chased down by dogs and killed. The Natives that fought back were

(Doc 8) One of biggest issues that took place during Jacksons presidency was the expanding of the US. During the expansion, Jackson had many land issues with the Native Americans and their land. (Doc 9) Native Americans refused to leave their lands and eventually states started making laws to make the Natives leave their home lands. Georgia had made a law to make the Cherokee Indians leave their land, but this law went to court before it was pursued. (TB pg.

Andrew Jackson abused his power, and did not promote democracy. He forced Native Americans off their lands and into reservations and suppressed the protest against the tariffs of 1828. Due to his frontier beginnings Andrew Jackson did not feel sympathetic to Native Americans. He thought that the Indians in the east should be taken away from their lands and put in small reservations in the west. Even though he faced tough resistance from the Supreme Court, Jackson pushed through with his plan, “In 1831 the Supreme Court held that Indians had the right to keep their lands. An angry Jackson disagreed. Groups that refused to move west voluntarily were met with military force usually with tragic results” (265). In this quote Jackson defies the Supreme Court and uses the

In 1828 after an unsuccessful run at president in 1824, he was became president. At his inaugural address he asked for a removal act, to relocate southern Indians to the west of the Mississippi. According to Alfred A. Cave, Andrew Jackson stated in that speech “This emigration should be voluntary, for it would be as cruel as unjust to compel the aborigines to abandon the graves of their fathers, and seek a home in a distant land.” . This was far from what actually happened. In 1830 the removal act was passed and the process began to remove the Southern Tribes. The reason why this passed is that the people of America did see Indians as having no right over the land, since they were uncivilized and savages. The Indians did not like that the American government was implementing these treaties. One by one tribes would agree to move west for a set price and a promise of land to be allotted to them. Some saw Andrew Jackson as being unfair and unjustified. Alfred Cave stated that Governor Wilson knew Andrew Jackson understood that “Indians cannot live in the midst of a White Population and be governed by the same laws. As for the Cherokee, who still refused to sign a removal treaty, starvation and destruction await them if

Andrew Jackson was the first “people’s president.” President Jackson was the first person to represent the common people because of his humble background. This helped him win support from the middle class and most of the nation. Because Jackson was in touch with the common people, many Americans had respect for him. President Jackson set a precedent for future presidents with his ability to unite the nation.

When it came to protecting individual liberties, Jacksonians favored the white male population, but totally ignored others. They wanted to move all of the Indians who lived in the eastern lands to western lands past the Mississippi River. Jackson bolstered their case. Even after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee tribe and its right to remain where it was, Jackson did

An Imperfect People with a Perfect Mission “The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.” (Andrew Jackson) Different traits attract a voter to a candidate, some prefer a candidate with a military background, others want a middle class commoner, and others want someone with political backgrounds. Andrew Jackson fulfilled all of these categories and, not surprisingly, took the white house with a sweep in 1828. His initial climb up the political ladder, military career, and presidency, displayed how Jackson stood out from his predecessors and valued the countries

The second incident where Jackson stood by his solicitude for state rights was in the removal of the Indian tribes. Jackson has been associated mainly with his decision to support Georgia in its efforts to remove the Cherokee from their land, despite a Supreme Court ruling against the state. However his enthusiastic support for Indian removal was "undoubtedly one of the reasons he swept the southern states in the 1828 election" . Jackson had Native Indian policy on his mind from the beginning as he saw that Indians were subject to American sovereignty and that national security demanded they be removed. Removal to the West would increase the security of the US from outside attacks. Upon

Even preceding his fame from presidency, Andrew Jackson was known for his opposition to American Indians. And although this connotation is assigned to Jackson’s attitude towards the Natives during the decades before he became President, his dominant goal was to maintain the security of the United States. As a military man, he was depicted as a zealous supporter of the removal of the Indians. Once he was in Office, the story goes, he utilized his newly acquired power to extract the Natives from their ancestral homes. One the contrary, during his terms, Jackson proved that upheld the rights of the Natives. However, what is considered to be the most controversial action of his presidency, the removal of the “Five Civilized Tribes” resulted in an abundance of criticism toward Jackson. Although alternatives to this removal were present, some being executed before, the American mindset was simply Natives could nither be assimilated to the “white” society nor requisite protection was possible. The removal, as Jackson concluded, seemed the only possible answer.

Andrew Jackson’s influence on the politics of his time was remarkable. He was the only president to have an era named after him. He also changed the way this country was run and expanded the country’s borders. He changed much, but the four most important aspects of this era, in chronological order, were his victory over the British, his defeat in the presidential race of 1824, his successful presidential campaign in 1828, and his decision to remove Native Americans to land west of the Mississippi. His victory over the British in the Battle of New Orleans lifted his popularity exponentially. He was a newfound American hero, and this pushed his political ambitions towards the White House. In 1824 Jackson was defeated in a close presidential

Andrew Jackson knew that to win the 1829 election he had to first win over the votes of the frontier states (North Dakota through Texas). Jackson's main election selling point was to provide free land for the eager settlers. This was especially important in Georgia because new settlers were coming in and greatly desired the land the cherokee had. In order to justify his actions, Jackson stated the Cherokees had fought with the British during the Revolutionary war. However, the Cherokees were actually his allies during that time. One indian even regretted helping Jackson and said if he would have know it was going to be this way he would killed jackson right there. Just a few weeks after he won the election, the Georgia legislature passed a law removing all the Cherokee within the state borders. When the Indians went to the president for help he said, “No protection could be afforded to the Cherokees” unless they moved west of the Mississippi.” Caucasian citizens began to claim the homes of

Andrew Jackson has gone down as one of the best presidents in United States history and that’s because he did many great things to improve the United States. Throughout his presidency he constantly abused his power as the president and did many things that expanded the powers of the president. One of the biggest things that President Jackson did while in office was pass the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was when Jackson forced all the Indians to move to the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, while the Supreme Court declared this unconstitutional. Many of the Indians went peacefully, but many of the Indians also decided to protest and take it to the Supreme Court (Darrenkamp). While the court did side with the Indians Jackson and Congress forced the Indians to give up their land. The federal troops were called in to escort the Indians to their new land. Fifteen thousand Indians were forced to move and while on their way about a third of the Indians died, and this event became to be known as the Trail of Tears (Darrenkamp). Jackson had

The Englishmen were not the first settlers of the New World. Many years before both the Spanish and the French had claimed parts of North America. England was only in it for land and money. When the English settlers arrived they did not care about the Native Americans and had little desire to accept their culture. The leaders of the colonies new they would need the help of the Natives to survive. During the early years the settlers and Indians got along. The Native Americans would provide food, clothing, and shelter in exchange for knives or hatchets. The Natives also taught them to be competent. As the settlers increased their knowledge and started taking more of Natives land the relationship between them began to diminish. Cultural differences became overwhelming as the

The Jacksonian Democracy was very strong but that didn't make Jackson a good president; he was more like a king who took all the power for himself. Although some rulings he made were beneficial, most of them didn't do anything but make our farming hurt. President Jackson made some great decisions and benefitted the country greatly. When the land was expanded it gave farmers the opportunity to expand their farm and do greater work. In order to do this Jackson had to clear out the Natives, “This scheme forced the national government to pass the Indian Removal Act on May 28, 1830, in which President Jackson agreed to divide the United States territory west of the Mississippi into districts for tribes to replace the land they were removed from.”

Native Americans had inherited the land now called America and eventually their lives were destroyed due to European Colonization. When the Europeans arrived and settled, they changed the Native American way of life for the worst. These changes were caused by a number of factors including disease, loss of land, attempts to export religion, and laws, which violated Native American culture.