The Importance Of Legislation To The Lifestyle Of White Americans

Despite that, the United States government told the Indians that they would not invade their lands. They soon heard that the Indians had fertile land and decided to allow settlers to move west. “After hearing tales of fertile land and a great mineral wealth in the West, the government soon broke their promises established in the Treaty of Fort Laramie by allowing thousands of non-Indians to flood into the area.”. (Victoriana) To make more land available to the settlers the government had to make reservations that would separate the Indians from the whites. In exchange for the Indians moving to

Another cause for poor relations between Native Americans and European Settlers was the constant push for acquiring new land by the Colonists. The Native Americans did not just want to give up their land and this resulted in war between the Indians and the Colonists. During this time Native Americans were sold into slavery belittled and removed from their land, due to the fact that the Colonists had more advanced technology and weapons. One of the major wars was the French and Indian War which resulted in the removal of Native Americans from their land and many casualties on both sides. Over time many battles were fought over land, even after America was an established country with presidents, laws, and court systems. Native Americans were continually pushed out of their land for hundreds of years while they were forced to move west. The constant push of Native Americans out of their land would cause an event known as the Trail of Tears where thousands of Indians were removed from their land by the Indian Removal Act. “In 1830 the Congress of the United States passed the "Indian Removal Act." Although many Americans were against the act, most notably Tennessee Congressman Davy Crockett, it passed anyway. President Jackson quickly signed the bill into law. The Cherokees attempted to fight removal legally by challenging the removal laws in the Supreme Court and by establishing an

government has unspecified and unorganized policies, which were unprotected for Native Americans who lived in the west because of all the new coming Americans. During westward expansion, a majority of who moved were whites, who didn’t know the Native Americans who already lived in the west. The Natives felt their land was being conquered, because of the U.S government policies(Louisana Purchase & Homestead Act) and the whites not wanting them to be there, which lead to fighting between the Natives and the whites. These acts and policies such as the Indian Removal Act often resulted in violated treaties and violence. The Indian Removal Act was the removal of Native American homes and tribes. “This also confines the Indians to still narrower limits, destroys that game which in their normal state, and constitutes their principal means of subsistence.” Resulting in westward expansion, Native Americans began rapidly decreasing in the area by wars and new diseases caught by new coming

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

In 1830, Andrew Jackson allowed then act to remove Natives from the land that they had been living on for their whole lives. A lot of factors had an effect on the reason that the Natives were forced out of their land, but one was the biggest reason. The Indian Removal Act was a result of the United States' greed.

During the eighteenth century, European settlers began settling in the Cherokee lands located in the interior southeast. After the revolutionary war though the Cherokee Indians gave up over half of their land to the American government. Over the years the American citizens continued to overstep onto Cherokee native land. In the late 1780s, the United States officials began to pressure the Cherokee to leave their traditions and way of life behind. They wanted the natives to learn to live like all Americans citizens. The Indians did conform a bit. They did this by

The Cherokee Indians were one of the most heavily populated of the southeast and did not agree to simply give up their land. The Cherokee Indians had been harmonious to the Americans so they inquired for some help. It was decided that the Cherokee Indians could be able to keep their land. Regardless President Andrew Jackson and his army

The Twenty-First Congress agreed with president Andrew Jackson that the tribes had to be separated into other territory. Congress stated that the territory that Indians had was part of the United States. They also mention that they will have to exchange the land, or they would be forcing them out and reverting their land to the United States. Land that was taken away from these tribes had to be improved such as adding value to the land and then paying it off for the improvements that had been made. After removing the Indians congress claimed that it was the right of the president to help them with any assistance after being removed from their previous homes.

Native Americans were treated rather unfairly. Casting Native Americans out of their homes was not only robbing them of their land, but their basic human rights as well. Many colonist refused to bond with Native Americans out of fear, eventually they got so scared of the Natives that they called for the “Indian Removal Act.” Andrew Jackson was the man behind the

history, cause by the excruciating relocation of the Indians. This is also considered as the beginning of the Indian extermination by the U.S. government even though they had lived in the country several generations before the white settlers set their foot in America. Altough after the American Revolution and the establishment of the United State, the Indians were consider as a discrete nation. Enclosed by a monarch country even so, the Indians were completey perpetrate to a tranquil coexistence, together with the White settlers.

The reasons for this were two-fold. First, many of the western politicians were responding to the demands of their business constituents, who saw Indian lands as hindrances to economic development. Indians were not able to develop their lands and so if the Indians were relocated off the reservations, the land would once again be accessible by non-Indians who could then benefit economically from it. Secondly, once assimilated, the tribes would no longer be a financial burden to the government. As part of the territory of the United States and no longer living on sovereign lands, the Indians became taxpayers and would be subject to the same laws and entitled to the same privileges as other U.S. citizens. The Indians were told by the BIA that all services on the reservations such as schools, medical facilities, etc., would be stopped and there would be nothing on the reservations to help them. Thus, the migration began in earnest for many Indians seeking a better opportunity in urban areas.

Jefferson's solution to the issues of America acquiring land from the Indians was imply getting rid of people that traded with the Indians; furtraders from foreign markets. Jefferson wanted to directly trade with the Indians. Jefferson believed that this will

Moreover, presidents along with the governmental influence abused their power bringing slavery, exploitation, oppression and many negative influences in the society. After the Americans started migrating to the West, the U.S government took Natives land and gave it to the people who were moving westward (white Americans). The Natives did not want to give up on their land, because that place meant their life, their ancestors and their culture by losing it, they would lose their dignity. For this reason, some of them refused to leave their property and the government implement both political and military action from removing natives Americans from their tribes. The Indians were forced to assimilate, follow U.S laws of leaving their homeland and the Indians forced themselves to move away from their land to Oklahoma. The Indian tribes that were affected the most were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole which were the civilized tribes and ended up losing their ancestral lands. It was the Native Americans who suffered most from Andrew Jackson's vision of America, just because that relocation would make room for Americans settlers migrating westward. In response to president Andrew Jackson’s actions of the tension the Cherokees refused to follow his orders and give

Long ago on the great plains, the buffalo roamed and the Native Americans lived amongst each other. They were able to move freely across the lands until the white men came and concentrated them into certain areas. Today there are more than five-hundred different tribes with different beliefs and history. Native Americans still face problems about the horrific history they went through and today 's discrimination. The removal of American Indian tribes is one of the most tragic events in American history. There are many treaties that have been signed by American representatives and people of Indian tribes that guaranteed peace and the values of the Indian territories. The treaties were to assure that fur trade would continue without interruption. The American people wanting Indian land has led to violent conflict between the two. Succeeding treaties usually forced the tribes to give up their land to the United States government. There were laws made for Native American Displacement that didn’t benefit the Native Americans, these laws still have long lasting effects on them today, and there was a huge number of Native Americans killed for many reasons.

In the beginning, the whites had enough land to satisfy their own needs. However, in enough time, the whites settlers started craving more and more land, because of their fast growing settlement and need for space. Instead of buying more territory, or trying to condense their already large settlements, the Whites suggested the idea to move the Indians to the west. As, there was gold found in the already fertile and animal-populated lands of the Natives, not many Whites argued against taking it. When White settler officials, such as generals, presented the idea of taking over the chunk of land, the government could not refuse, and decided to pass a law. The law stated that whites had the right to move Indians westward, and since they wanted