Removal Act Dbq
After years of assimilating to White culture and building a successful, independent economy, the question of whether or not Native Americans residing in the southern states and specifically the Cherokee in Georgia should be removed was hotly debated until the ratification of the Removal Act in 1830.
Andrew Jackson, the man representing the federal government as the President of the United States, actively pursued the Removal Act despite his previous opinion of Natives being so savage it were better to have them driven to extinction. (Wallace, 54) Later, he ruled that all Natives had been conquered and it was the U.S.’ responsibility to “save” these people by moving them away from their ancestral lands and West of the Mississippi. (Wallace,
Andrew Jackson, the man representing the federal government as the President of the United States, actively pursued the Removal Act despite his previous opinion of Natives being so savage it were better to have them driven to extinction. (Wallace, 54) Later, he ruled that all Natives had been conquered and it was the U.S.’ responsibility to “save” these people by moving them away from their ancestral lands and West of the Mississippi. (Wallace,