The lands that the americans moved to are the rightful property of the tribes. The lands don’t belong to the states. The Indian Removal Act was not justified. One reason the indian removal act was not justified is because the land was the Cherokees first and the americans just came in and took it. The land was not america's so the americans could not just kick out the Cherokee out of their own land.…
The Trail of Tears In 1830 President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act which moved the Indians west to ensure the expansion of the Americas. This act was posed to ensure safe travels by American troops but this 2,200 mile journey proved to be traitorous killing about 4,000 people, there forth earning its name The Trail of Tears.…
Although they passed the Indian Removal Bill they were upholding the Treaty of Hopewell. This treaty is the government agreeing to protect the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation’s land in the southern part of the United states. The Indians thought that they had a right to their lands in Georgia so one third of the Nation decided to migrate…
Trail of Tears is a gruesome event that involved the forceful eviction of the native Indians in there ancestral homes to designated areas. The arrival of the whites in America meant that the local communities suffered so much in terms of forced labor and places of occupation. The Native Americans initially lived in Florida, North Carolina, and Alabama. The whites forced the native Americans to move across the Mississippi river a journey that was described as the Trail of Tears. To the Whites who occupied the western frontier, the Native Americans represented a group of people who were aliens to them hence they were not to be allowed living in amongst themselves.…
I don't think that you would like that too much. The plan of the removal act was to first take their land, then the U.S. government would force the Indians to relocate west to an area that we now know as Oklahoma. The removal act of the Cherokee Indians was written by President James Monroe. The act was put in place because the citizens of Georgia wanted to mine the gold that is under the ground.…
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…
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.…
and that were fueled by racism. The Cherokees lost approximately one-fourth of their people to disease, malnourishment, and hardship during the exodus to Indian Territory(wikipedia). The few that survived moved west and made a new life, and the few that decided to agree to become North Carolina citizens, remained in the western North Carolina mountains. Initially, under President George Washington, the federal government encouraged Indians to embrace mainstream white American customs, such…
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.…
He commented "It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation” (Library of Congress, Jackson, 1830). At that time however only two tribes agreed to leave their land, the others were not in agreement with the Indian Removal Act. In response, the American Indians fought back on a political level, Chief John Ross who represented the majority of the American Indians who did not want to leave their lands tried to diplomatically and legally maintain autonomy with the United States…
In the 1820s and 1830s, the Cherokees had to figure out whether they would stay or leave from their land in Georgia because the United States wanted Cherokee land. Historians today still debate about whether the Cherokees should have stayed or left. Cherokee representatives believed that the United States will let them stay, while Boudinot believed that they should leave otherwise the United States would force them out in a violent way. One reason why removal offered the best chance for Cherokee survival is that if they stayed, they would lose their Cherokee civilization.…
The Cherokee Are People Too In the book The Cherokee Removal, the author argued that most of the Americans did not want the Cherokee nation to be considered equal and wanted them removed. The American people tormented the Cherokees and tried to break their spirits. The Americans thought that if the Cherokee people could be dispossessed, that they would have agreed to the removal (Purdue, 84).…
The indian removal act of 1830 was justified and the cherokees should've moved because they had done horrible things to people, better land, and freedom. The first reason, the cherokees should’ve moved is because they have done horrible…
The American government is going to take Cherokee land by any means possible, especially in Georgia. At this time, the United States is still expanding their territory and so they want the land that legally belongs to the Cherokee, even if it requires breaking laws. The main debate is over the Cherokee’s deciding which path offers the best chance of survival for the Cherokee in the early 1800’s: staying in their original territory or removal to the west. The best option, in regards to survival, is removal to the west. Some may disagree on the fact that the land legally belongs to the Cherokee but the best chance they have is to get away from the American government.…
On May 28, 1830, Congress concurred in the Indian Removal Act, which President Andrew Jackson signed immediately. The Indian Removal Act begins Chapter CXLVIII as “An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi.” The Indians had been moved west of the Mississippi river, and removed from their land with a sum of $500,000 dollars to their…