Indian Removal DBQ Google Docs
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Braden Moss
Mr. Boyd
10/27/14
1st Period
Indian Removal DBQ
Ever since the American people arrived at the New World they have continually driven the
Native Americans out of their native lands. The decision of the Jackson administration to remove the
Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s was not the only viable decision
Jackson had in view of the issues, but Jackson had many reasons why he thought the decision was valid even though the Supreme Court said it was illegal in 1832.
Andrew Jackson wanted to protect the indians from harm by relocating them in an area farther away from the United States. In Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, he states that the
United States were, “ sincerely desirous of saving the remnant of the natives, and of maintaining them in the free possession of that territory which the Union has guaranteed to them.” Like Jackson most of the states wanted to save the last of the natives. On the other hand, there were some that thought that they were barbaric and a threat to the states. So, the government had to side with the opposing states to exterminate some of the barbaric tribes [Document A]. Jackson wanted to protect the Cherokees from being exterminated so he started trying to convince them to relocate farther away. Lewis Cass agreed with Jackson and Alexis saying that the Cherokees were, “A barbarous people, depending for subsistence upon the scanty and precarious supplies furnished by the chase, cannot live in contact with a civilized community.” He believed that the Cherokees were barbaric and primitive people and they did not deserve to live in contact and get support from the Union [Document E]. Jackson did not exactly
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agree with this. He wanted the indians removed, but that was because he wanted to save them not discard them. The map in [Document F] shows where the lands of the indians was before they were removed, where they were relocated to, and the routes the took to get
Braden Moss
Mr. Boyd
10/27/14
1st Period
Indian Removal DBQ
Ever since the American people arrived at the New World they have continually driven the
Native Americans out of their native lands. The decision of the Jackson administration to remove the
Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s was not the only viable decision
Jackson had in view of the issues, but Jackson had many reasons why he thought the decision was valid even though the Supreme Court said it was illegal in 1832.
Andrew Jackson wanted to protect the indians from harm by relocating them in an area farther away from the United States. In Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, he states that the
United States were, “ sincerely desirous of saving the remnant of the natives, and of maintaining them in the free possession of that territory which the Union has guaranteed to them.” Like Jackson most of the states wanted to save the last of the natives. On the other hand, there were some that thought that they were barbaric and a threat to the states. So, the government had to side with the opposing states to exterminate some of the barbaric tribes [Document A]. Jackson wanted to protect the Cherokees from being exterminated so he started trying to convince them to relocate farther away. Lewis Cass agreed with Jackson and Alexis saying that the Cherokees were, “A barbarous people, depending for subsistence upon the scanty and precarious supplies furnished by the chase, cannot live in contact with a civilized community.” He believed that the Cherokees were barbaric and primitive people and they did not deserve to live in contact and get support from the Union [Document E]. Jackson did not exactly
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agree with this. He wanted the indians removed, but that was because he wanted to save them not discard them. The map in [Document F] shows where the lands of the indians was before they were removed, where they were relocated to, and the routes the took to get