How Native Americans Were Civilized

The United States has had many events in the past that weren’t very civilized, as we know in the past we did some horrible things to people who didn’t deserve it and we now realize that know. When the colonists met the Native Americans, the natives were peaceful to them by showing how to survive the new land they discovered. The pilgrims decided to have a feast with the natives on November 27th, 1621, to show thanks for the natives. (History.com).
During George Washington presidency years, he stated to educate the natives by converting them to Christianity, learn and speak English. In 1803, the United States bought the Louisiana Purchase from France; the President of United States at the time was Thomas Jefferson he sent out two men and their
We toke their land forcing them to move westward or towards Canada territories. The whites didn’t care if any of these tribes were making settlement; if they wanted that particular piece of land they would do anything to get their piece of land. Whites would burn and destroy the Native Americans home not caring about if they hurt anyone along the way. Soon after destroying everything the government decided to pass a law that limits Native Americans rights, this caused cases such as Cherokee v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia; both of these cases were refused for approval by Andrew Jackson. Beginning in 1830, 125,000 Native Americans lived on land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida. (History.com). One of the major event that caused the Trail of Tears is the Black Hawk war, tribes Sauk and Fox fought the white settlers because the settlers started the attack even though the tribes surrender, this war didn’t loosen the tense at all it caused more damage by the whites goal was removing all tribes from the west. The United States forced the Native Americans from their homelands leaving behind their ancestry land; this is known as the Trail of Tears. The white settlers were often scared and feared the Native Americans; to the settlers Native Americans
(Lector notes). Many Cherokees didn’t listen to the treaty, Jackson sent an army of 7,000 to invade and push the natives westward towards the Mississippi.(Lecture notes). During the invasion of the army a group of Cherokees agreed to the treaty but without the whole consent from the whole tribe, they left with the money and let the other half of tribe deal with army. Many Indians did escape the invasion most of them either went up north to Canada or went through the swamps, the army tried to go after them but the natives knew the land more than whites. The walked last about 8 years, the walk started in many different places but all ended in Oklahoma; the tribes marched more than 1,200 miles. Men, women and children were forced to walk and carry their belongings that they could carry along the way. Along the way to the reservoir, many Indians died from disease such as measles, small