President Jackson Uncivilized Native Americans

In the years before Andrew Jackson became president, the different tribes in the south lived well together with white people. The Choctaw tribe accept the new life and culture as it was the best of bad circumstances, they could let their tribe fight and possibly face death. Moving away was a horrible journey and they would also possibly face death. Or stay and accept the new culture. They had to let go of their long and important history. But as hard as they tried when President Jackson became president a few years later, the attitude towards Native Americans had changed completely. Jackson was not friendly with the Native American tribes (in the south), and soon they were pressured to leave by political figures, land speculators (people

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

Andrew Jackson was all about moving westward and expanding, and he did anything to accomplish their goal. He warned the Indians to move and leave their homes and if they didn´t, he shot them. “President Andrew Jackson, a man of the frontier himself, supported the settler’s demand for Native American land. In his presidential campaign he had promised to back white settlers who wanted Native American land. ( Appleby, 2000 ) This shows that Andrew Jackson supported the idea to forcefully move the Native Americans off their land. He was the one who truly believed the westward expansion had to happen. He let his general kill the Indians if they did not move off their land. The significance of this is that Andrew Jackson did not care about other people’s land and their rights as long as the Americans got what they wanted. He even gave the order to kill the Indians if they did not leave their land. He was a villain for killing these

The Indian Removal Act in 1830 was a relocation of the Indians from the eastern part of the United States to the West. President Andrew Jackson provided federal land for the Indians, west of the Mississippi River. Many people debate whether Jackson’s decision to remove the Indians was ethical. I believe Jackson used his decision to remove the Indians to prevent further conflict; he then was generous to allow them to make a profit off their land, and provided a place where the Indians could function as their own nation.

Above all, the Trail of Tears has got to be Andrew Jackson’s most horrific act. Jackson forced nearly 20,000 Native Americans out of their homeland. Roughly 20% of them died from exhaustion. The Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek,and Cherokee Natives were the tribes involved with the Trail of Tears.

Jackson condemned the Native American Tribes, The Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole, to Indian Territory on what is present day Oklahoma. Jackson felt that the Indians could not assimilate to the white American culture and were blocking white expansion. Historian Robert V. Remini stated that Jackson: “Overcoming a commitment to elimination, Jackson converted to the policy of removal. He was obsessed with national security and protecting the southern settlements from Indians who might ‘be prey to the wiles of foreign influence’” . The act was instrumental in securing, or expanding, American holdings to include: Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. During the despicable removal and forced march ordered by Jackson, thousands of Native Americans lost their lives along the trail of tears from famine and

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,

Thomas Jefferson was once known for believing that Native American people were capable of integration into the American system. According to the film, “Trail of Tears,” President Jefferson told the Indians, “You will unite yourselves with us. Join our great councils and form one people with us…You will mix with us by marriage. Your blood will run within our veins, and will spread us over this great continent.” However, after being elected President, he passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This unforeseen shift in support is highly debated between historians today. Some believe that Andrew Jackson held an unfavorable attitude towards Native Americans ever since the War of 1812 and the Creek War. He frequently clashed with Native American people

Andrew Jackson had an appalling hatred towards Natives. He killed so many natives in the Creek War, just to get their land. When the people in Oklahoma were invading Indian territory and forming militias, at first he just turned up his nose and let the Natives fend for themselves, even though

As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokees were forced to give up lands east of the Mississippi River and to move to an area in Oklahoma. President Andrew Jackson is unconstitutional because he abuses his power as president as well as threaten the people and the national bank. Also Jackson acts like a king and puts himself above everybody.

Native Americans have tremendously suffered to the hands of the white Americans, beginning from a mass genocide to today with the debate of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The most well-known event of Indian prejudice and persecution was the Trail of Tears, which was enacted by President Andrew Jackson. It was on December 8th,1829 that Jackson proposed his Removal Act, which called for the forced removal of the Indians to western territory; this would be known as the infamous Trail of Tears. Jackson applied many persuasive techniques within his case in order to both fully convey his point and influence Congress to agree with him. Native Americans are represented as inferior to Caucasians by Jackson's pointed diction and simplification, which is

The United States of America had moved the Native Americans out of the East and into the West to invest in Economic purposes.Andrew Jackson wanted the remove Native Americans so the United states could have farmers, settlers move into Cherokee lands for investment in the U.S. economy(Techbook 7.2).Andrew Jackson thought that if he

To begin, Andrew Jackson had been planning for the removal of the Indians even before he took office. As stated in Document 3, “It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching…a happy consummation.” During this speech, more specifically Jackson’s Second Annual Message to Congress delivered in 1830, he went on to inform them of the process and current progress of the Indian removal plan and all the benefits that went alongside it. He then stated that it put an end to

The ruling by the U.S. Supreme court was changed when Andrew Jackson became president. President Jackson went against the Supreme Court’s ruling and backed Georgia’s stance on Native American lands. President Jackson had a long history with Native Americans. He fought against the Creek Indians during the war of 1812.9 He did not believe that Native Americans were civilized enough to remain among the white settlers, even though many Cherokee tribes had assimilated into white culture.10 Although President Jackson was not the architect of the Indian relocation act, he was a long time believer in the relocation of Native Americans.11 The passing of President Jackson’s plan would not only affect the Cherokee, but at least five major tribes throughout the United States. In his first State of the Union Address in 1812, President Jackson presented his plan for Indian “removal” and encouraged Congress to legalize his plan through legislation.12 President Jackson’s stance on Indian removal was that it would not only protect them from white influence, but that the move would ultimately be beneficial to the Indians by preserving their cultures.13 In Fact, President Jackson felt that his plan for relocation was very generous to

The Trail of Tears is an event that has echoed through the years of the cruelty and loss of human life. The desire for more land as settlers moved west, caused a divide between what the people wanted and the lives of the people that already lived on the land. White squatters would pillage the tribes land, commit murders, and force natives to sell their possessions by taking hostages. Unfortunately, little was done to stop it. As far as Jackson was concerned the “states were not responsible to the central government for the justice of their law” (Cole, pg. 113). Congress’s view was “todays criminals are tomorrows voters” (Heildler, pg. 37). The fate of the natives on their land was sealed by President Andrew Jackson in one of the most horrific events that have happened on United States soil. The signing of the Indian Removal Act started years of suffering and death for the natives that had lived on this land for generations. The natives were subjected to many hardships during the years of the Indian Removal.