The removal of American Indian tribes from lands east of the Mississippi River to what is now the state of Oklahoma is one of the tragic episodes in American history. Early treaties signed by American agents and representatives of Indian tribes guaranteed peace and the integrity of Indian territories‚ primarily to assure that the lucrative fur trade would continue without interruption. American settlers’ hunger for Indian land‚ however‚ led to violent conflict in many cases‚ and succeeding treaties
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It cannot be questioned that Andrew Jackson had extreme impact serving as the United States seventh president. He‚ along with many others of the time‚ believed that with the impact he had he was even a hero. The fact of the matter‚ however‚ is that many results of his impactful decisions were often not always for the benefit of the country. His personal values alone did not seek the country’s best interest. With the overall result of the choices that Jackson made‚ he was indeed not hero and only
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for some? In 1830‚ all of the Indians except for some of the Cherokee signed the Treaty of New Etocha. This treaty‚ was between a small group of Cherokee and the U.S. government where they agreed to leave. Most of the Cherokee refused to leave their land. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 should not be justified because the Americans and Indians have an abysmal‚ the americans gave the Indians bad land‚ and the Indians were there first. First‚ the Americans and Indians have an abysmal. They have an
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Andrew Jackson a democratic man who cared about the word of the people‚ but criticized by his enemies. Jackson lived a tough life from losing his father days before his birth ‚at the age of 13 he enlisted in the Revolutionary War he was captured by a British officer and later freeed with a negotiation for him and his brother by his mother .Shortly after returning home his mother dies‚ leaving him alone.Jackson worked hard from studying law to being elected Tennessee’s first representative in the
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occupied by Native Americans. Jackson created the Indian Removal Act to get them off the land‚ leading to the Trail of Tears where Native Americans were forced off their land and taken to Oklahoma. The multiple perspectives of the sources concerning the Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears help shape the reader’s view of these events by explaining what happened‚ the causes of it‚ and the perspectives of the people involved. To begin‚
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In 1830‚ Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act was a law that authorized the president to remove southern Indian tribes out of their homes and to travel to the federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands. The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation trail for the Native tribes. The multiple sources regarding the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears help shape the reader’s understanding of the event because you get different perspectives
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In May 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act‚ this approved that the President Andrew Jackson could remove all Native Americans from their land and to arrange settlements of evacuation with every single Indian tribe living east of the Mississippi. After the Indian Removal act was established Georgia‚ surveyors and squatter entered Cherokee lands‚ instantly focusing on the Cherokee tribe‚ they chose to battle back in government court. The Cherokee country brought a suit against the condition
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John Ross a Cherokee chief‚ Andrew Jackson the president‚ and the congress were all involved in the signing of this act. The Congress and the other people involved on the government side wanted the land because they had more access to it and had better quality than the previous land. “The bold effort the president Central Bank had made to control the government… are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded
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In the 1830’s the trails of tears was an act of removal of Native Americans out of their home lands. White Americans who also occupied the same land as Indians resented Native Americans. Most whites saw them as aliens and uncivilized people. Therefore‚ President Washington tried to solve the “Indian problem’ by making them as much as the whites. They encourage them to convert to Christianity and learn to speak and read English. Five different tribes embraced their customs and became known as the
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Unit 4 Essay - The Trail of Tears/Indian Removal 1815-1860 was a busy time for the United States of America. The country was still fairly new and everything was changing. The country had to deal with new land areas‚ Indian removal‚ nullification‚ a national bank‚ and everything in between. Whoever was elected as president had a large task ahead of them‚ not one president had it very easy. Ever since this country was founded‚ there was one substantial problem that lay ahead of them; the Native Americans
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