During Indian removals, many Native tribes were attempting to find loopholes in treaties to be able to stay on their native lands. One of the loopholes included gaining permission to stay from the English government. Most of the people who were successful at gaining the exemption were well respected by the English or they claimed they would become civilized Americans. The second option included hiding out and hoping not to be found by the soldiers. Lastly, the Natives could have become members of a community that was exempted from removal.…
I believe that the driving force behind the Indian removal act was the Americans greed for land, which in turn would be used to grow and produce cotton. America at the time was the largest producer of Cotton in the world as it produced “400 million produced 400 million pounds of cotton per year” (Wallace PG 189) which “accounted for two thirds of all cotton produced for export in the world” (Wallace PG 189). Even though America was producing tremendous amount of cotton per year, the world’s demand for it wasn’t deteriorating making profit extremely profitable. On average cotton was produced for 10 cents a pound and on average sold for 16 cents a pound with peak prices of 40 cents a pound. This mean that a farmer with a “500 acre cotton plantation…
In the Indian Removal the Indians were pushed out of their territory and pushed to new territory. The policy made the Indians live longer making them rich and wealthy with new and extensive territory. The Indian Removal act did its purpose and didn’t end with annihilation from war. The United States benefited the Indians, “The United States will play to send the natives to a land where they may live longer and possibly survive as a people”(Doc A). The act was a benefit to both sides.…
Andrew Jackson The United States’ seventh president, Andrew Jackson served two terms from 1829-1837. He is known for making many difficult decisions, but I believe that his decisions on the Indian Removal Act, the Spoils System, and Bank War were wrong. The Indian Removal Act created tension between the United States and the Native Americans. The Indian Removal Act granted the United States land the Native Americans were living in east of the Mississippi River.…
Indian Removal: Is it justified? The Act of Removal of the Cherokee Indians was a rough era in history. The Removal of the Indians happened because the citizens of Georgia wanted to mine on their land. The Cherokee Indians had refused to let them mine on their land because the land belonged to the legally and they were not going to let some strangers come and take their land away from them. How would you like it if someone came into your house and told you to leave?…
The removal act by congress led to conflict against the americans as seen in the constant attack on american settlers. conflicts within the Comanche territory between Comanche and intruding southern Arapahos and Cheyennes also became a major problem for the…
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to a piece of land that was designated as Native Territory. In 1803 the Indian Removal Act was passed leading to the removal of the Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Seminoles, and Cherokees were relocated off their land. The trek was over 1,000 miles long and thousands of people died while being transported. Before the Indian Removal Act, the tribes were thriving in the southeastern United States. White americans saw American Indians as unfamiliar, alien people, causing them to try to “civilize” them by trying to make them as much like white americans as possible.…
Moving West Manifest Destiny the negatives and positives of moving westward. The reason to move west and the struggles for moving westward. The consequences that were there when the Westward Expansion happened. The risks that the move held and the what people hoped to gain.…
Their moving or not moving being voluntary was not really the truth and with that, many battles ensued. With the Indians moving such a long distance with no resources, many died on a trail that is now known as the Trail of Tears, many also died in the battles in the colonies. So was the Indian Removal Act an injustice and only used as a way to take their land or was it needed for peace between the natives and colonists and for further development of America? I see it as an injustice and only used for a selfish end because, though many tribes were not peaceful, many had already assimilated into the American…
Native American 's Treatment In The 1800s Have you thought of all the land that is the now U.S? Have you thought about how exactly did they acquire the land? No one thinks of the people who lives were giving or taken for the expandtion of this great nation. The treatment that was endured by the Native Americans for more land, by greedy white settlers. Although the white settlers desired more land for settlement,the treatment of the Native American harsh and unjust.…
The Indian Removal Act, which was passed by Congress in 1830, completely changed the path for the future in multiple aspects. In determining what impact this event still has on our country today, one must start by analyzing the relationships between Native Americans, the United States government, and the common white settler. Additionally, one must analyze how the removal of these tribes affected not only them, but the white settlers. Socially, Native Americans were viewed as no more than objects in the way of what the Americans viewed as rightfully theirs.…
First the white men’s old leader made an act that was to force all tribes leave their land and move west. Then Andrew Jackson went against a case made by his Supreme Court deeming Native Americans sovereign nations. Though it wasn’t until Martin Van Buren became president that we, the Cherokee, were removed. After the Treaty of New Echota had been signed by the renegade Cherokee and Chief John Ross’ petition against it denied, they came for the Cherokee who had yet to leave for the new appointed Indian Territory in the west.…
Again, the acts were politically, morally and practically unwise, and natives and some whites protested; and again, the government forced Native Americans off land that rightfully belonged to…
It forced the Native Indians to surrender millions of acres of land and to move to west. Throughout the removal many Indians suffered through sickness and death. The Indian Removal Act not only removed the Indians from their rightful lands forcefully but also is responsible for over 4000 deaths of the Native Americans, that today is known as the ‘Trail of Tears’. Bibliography Calloway, Colin G. Kill the Indian and Save the Man 1870s-1920s. (In Bedford/St. Martin’s (Ed.), First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History, 4th ed., 2012) 412-483.…
The removal was very unjustified because we were unfair and made a lot of people die, we did. This is why the Indian removal act was unjustified and how America can be towards others. Imagine how it would feel to lose your home and have to walk about 1,000 miles to get to your new home. “The Cherokees lost approximately one-fourth of their people to disease, malnourishment, and hardship. ”This is only one hardship they faced.√The removal was unjustified because the native Americans owned the land before we had even come to America and they rightfully owned the land.…