How should the American people deal with the Indian problem? Civilization or removal. Indians, also called Native Americans, lived in America long ago before European settlers came. The Cherokee Indians lived peacefully with White settlers, and nothing really happened until Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828. He did a terrible thing to the Indian people by forcing them to leave their ancestral lands to move west of the Mississippi, which is the state of Oklahoma today. President Andrew Jackson wrote the Indian Removal document as a message to the people of the United States. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 and died at the age of 78 in 1845 (Kelly). He was born in poverty, and his father died shortly before his
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that the Indian Removal has many positive effects on the government, the individual states, and the Indian people (Jackson). The document says it gives Andrew Jackson the pleasure to announce the Congress that the goal to remove Indians from east of the Mississippi after nearly 30 years almost ends happily (Jackson). He says two important tribes, Choctaw and Chickasaw already accepted emigration, and he hopes the rest of the tribes will do the same thing. Next, he says this Indian Removal will benefit the United States, individual states and the Indians as well (Jackson). He lists some advantages for the Indians such as the removal will save them from the depredations of Whites and free them from the power of the States. They can resettle in the area where they can govern themselves in peace, and they can become an interesting, civilized and Christian community (Jackson). Andrew Jackson also says the government is good enough to pay for the whole expense of the removal, give them money by purchasing their lands, support their new homes from the moment of their arrival, and give a new and extensive territory (Jackson). Lastly, the document says there is no reason for Indians to refuse to move to their new land; it is such a good deal for them. In return, Jackson says that Indians should feel thankful and happy because the government is giving them an opportunity to go to a new
that the Indian Removal has many positive effects on the government, the individual states, and the Indian people (Jackson). The document says it gives Andrew Jackson the pleasure to announce the Congress that the goal to remove Indians from east of the Mississippi after nearly 30 years almost ends happily (Jackson). He says two important tribes, Choctaw and Chickasaw already accepted emigration, and he hopes the rest of the tribes will do the same thing. Next, he says this Indian Removal will benefit the United States, individual states and the Indians as well (Jackson). He lists some advantages for the Indians such as the removal will save them from the depredations of Whites and free them from the power of the States. They can resettle in the area where they can govern themselves in peace, and they can become an interesting, civilized and Christian community (Jackson). Andrew Jackson also says the government is good enough to pay for the whole expense of the removal, give them money by purchasing their lands, support their new homes from the moment of their arrival, and give a new and extensive territory (Jackson). Lastly, the document says there is no reason for Indians to refuse to move to their new land; it is such a good deal for them. In return, Jackson says that Indians should feel thankful and happy because the government is giving them an opportunity to go to a new