How Did Andrew Jackson Treat Indians

In the 19th century West, the policy of the U.S. government toward Indians kept changing because couple president’s administration against Indians were different. Andrew Jackson, served as the 7th President in the United States, promoted the Indian Removal Acts. The 18th President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant set up the first Indian Reservations.

Andrew Jackson treat Indians as suject of the United States, and he promoted the Indian Removal Acts because he believed removal could save the Indians from extinction instead of assimilation. Then, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed, appropriating $500,000 to relocate eastern tribes west of the Mississippi which was a ethnic expulsion. Public were disagreed with this explusion, even
In the midcentury, the government gave money to Indians in trade of taking control of their lands, and the government would reserve their lands if they wanted to use. However, white kept distroying Indian tribes, and they cut down their trees and brought diease to there which decreased their population. Indians signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851 in order to reserve their culture. Indians were forced to accept reservations, and they could be taught in English ,farming, and their childern could go to school. Indians also signed the second Treaty of Fort Laramie to remian Indian’s control of the Black Hills.

The establishment of the reservations forced Indians go onto the reservations which occupied a large acreage of lands. Senator Henry Dawes sponsored Dawes Allotment Act to grant Indians (except married women) 160 acres of lands which reduced Indians’ lands a lot. Those who recieved lands were eligible to the U.S. citizens, but the U.S. still remained its right to hold those lands in trust in which it could sold the rest of the lands to white settlers. However, this act deprived Indian’s lands and made them became