Most people are aware of the devastating effects The Trail of Tears had on the Cherokee people and some people may question why this horrible event had to take place and what kind of President was Andrew Jackson to not only let but to fight tooth and nail for this policy. Though much has been written about the injustices that the Native Americans endured during the Trail of Tears very little attention has been given to why the people of that time would allow this forced removal to take place. This paper will analyze the immoral, unconstitutional and illegal engagements that took place during the development of President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Policy as well as the actions instigating the trail of trails and the devastating aftermath.
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By 1830, the Cherokee leaders had already stuck a series of hard bargains with the U.S. In return for the safety and security of the Cherokee people and the right to remain on the land of their four fathers. The land that the Cherokees believed that their ancestors had always inhabited.
Over two-hundred years prior to the Trail of Tears, English colonization would begin and thousands of settlers would come to establish the 13 colonies. Some looking for wealth and prosperity while others were being casted out of their homeland for religious beliefs. A vision of wealth, power and religion was to be the driving force of Americans that would eventually lead to the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Cherokee Nation would be under constant threat. Keeping a wary eye of any encroachment by their near neighbors; The Shawnees, The Creeks, The Choctaws and Chickasaws and now a new force, The …show more content…
These treaties would establish borders and make Cherokee land a sovereignty nation so long as the Cherokee Nation remained willing to adapt to a policy America was offering called “Civilization”, it provide funding for missionaries to go into the Cherokee Nation and teach the Cherokees to live the kind of live Anglo Americans believed to be civilized life. The promises of the U.S. Government were that if the Native Americans could somehow assimilate ways of living that were more like their white neighbors then they could be the political and social equal of their white neighbors. Thomas Jefferson stated, “You will unite yourself with us, join our great councils and form one people with us, and we shall all be Americans, you will mix with us by marriage, your blood will run within our veins, and will spread over this great
By 1830, the Cherokee leaders had already stuck a series of hard bargains with the U.S. In return for the safety and security of the Cherokee people and the right to remain on the land of their four fathers. The land that the Cherokees believed that their ancestors had always inhabited.
Over two-hundred years prior to the Trail of Tears, English colonization would begin and thousands of settlers would come to establish the 13 colonies. Some looking for wealth and prosperity while others were being casted out of their homeland for religious beliefs. A vision of wealth, power and religion was to be the driving force of Americans that would eventually lead to the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Cherokee Nation would be under constant threat. Keeping a wary eye of any encroachment by their near neighbors; The Shawnees, The Creeks, The Choctaws and Chickasaws and now a new force, The …show more content…
These treaties would establish borders and make Cherokee land a sovereignty nation so long as the Cherokee Nation remained willing to adapt to a policy America was offering called “Civilization”, it provide funding for missionaries to go into the Cherokee Nation and teach the Cherokees to live the kind of live Anglo Americans believed to be civilized life. The promises of the U.S. Government were that if the Native Americans could somehow assimilate ways of living that were more like their white neighbors then they could be the political and social equal of their white neighbors. Thomas Jefferson stated, “You will unite yourself with us, join our great councils and form one people with us, and we shall all be Americans, you will mix with us by marriage, your blood will run within our veins, and will spread over this great