The Pros And Cons Of Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson in December of 1829 got the Indian Removal Act passed by Congress. This targeted the Five Civilized Tribes, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole, to move from their ancestral lands with inadequate supplies and resources 5 million acres in the Southeast to the west of the Mississippi River. Even though these five tribes had changed their way of life they were forced to move, Chief Justice John Marshall's rulings on the cases Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832) made this act illegal, Jackson paid no heed to even this and got the Act signed and passed by Congress ("Andrew Jackson's Indian Policy"). They were never allowed to progress or be recognized, reversing their successes and profits.
Georgia ruled that Georgia had no right to enforce state laws on a sovereign such as the Cherokee Nation. Worcester v. Georgia ruled that extension rules of Georgia couldn’t again be enforced on the Natives, that are their own nation. They are kind-hearted and welcoming while the Americans acted like true savages and betrayed them by kicking them off their own land and violating their rights, which was the most basic ideal of America, which we had a whole Revolution for. But we couldn’t grant rights to other minorities who are in the Americas. And then criticize Britain for not being able to give Americans a say in government even though they were a whole ocean away. After being pushed away from Americans, they were again provoked to fight for their rights in the California Gold Rush (1848). The American government with little sympathy for the natives's problems such as corrupt Indian agents, trespassing miners, the slaughter of buffalo, the building of immigrant trails, and the transcontinental railroad lines cutting through hunting grounds, aroused the Indians to revolt. The U.S. government moved them to minute reservations so they could be controlled and made dependent on the