The Myth of the Vanishing Indian has served a vital function in U.S. history. The removal of the Cherokees indeed illustrates the pervasiveness of this myth. After the arrival of the Europeans to the Americas, the indigenous population dwindled significantly. This myth attempts to explain this phenomena by claiming that the disappearance of Native Americans after their contact with the European settlers was inevitable unless they assimilate because they were “culturally and genetically weaker”. Essentially, the myth was formulated by the white people to justify taking Native American land because they were interested in expanding the United States.…
President Van Buren was upset because the Cherokees weren’t leaving and therefore he sent his General Winfield Scott and his soldiers to remove the Cherokees out their home. They made these Indians travel up to 1,200 miles and they treated this tribe terrible. They would not feed them or help them and that’s how certain diseases and illnesses occurred such as starvation, whooping cough, cholera, and typhus. Out of all 16,000 indians, 5,000 died along the way. They reached the new territory that was given to the Cherokees by 1840.…
In 1834, John Ross and other traditionalists opposed giving up their land. Another leader of the Cherokees, Major Ridge, believed that the natives would move or die fighting the more vigorous Americans. So, he went to Washington and negotiated a treaty that would sell all Cherokee lands for $5 million ( History), and they would get compensation for lost property (Trail). It was signed by about 100 Cherokees known as the Treaty Party. Many of the Cherokees felt betrayed, but to the government it was already a done…
It tells the cruel story of the Cherokee nation and what they encountered during the Trail of Tears. The conditions of the Trail of Tears were horrendous. The Cherokee Nation were asked to leave the during the winter months so their old land would be free during farming season. Most indians were forced to walk the long journey west unless they were sick or incapable of walking the way. They were treated like animals being whipped and beaten by US troops on the long journey not to mention the disease infested blankets the government gave them.…
Not many people know or have heard of this event that took place on a trail that was 1,000 miles long. President Jackson issued a Removal Act of the Indians and white Americans were all for it. These people suffered and even some them died on their journey. If they did survive they had to adapt their new lifestyle. Those who wonder why it is called the trail of tears it is because the Native Americans would cry when they lost a loved one.…
Over 16,000 Natives were put on a 850 mile passage that turned from a two month journey into a half a year expedition. The swift and brutal process drove men, women and children out of their homes, sometimes with only the clothes on their backs. Many of the relocated people suffered from exposure to extreme climate weather, lack of planning from the Europeans whom did not know the land like the Natives, more diseases, and starvation from the lack of foods at the “Stops” while traveling to their reserve, and many died before reaching their destinations, estimates say up to 4,000-8,000 Natives were deceased. The most vulnerable members of the tribe to be impacted during the passage by the harsh conditions were the elderly, and toddlers/infants. The forced removals included members of the Cherokee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Nations.…
Catherine Uruchima E Period DBQ Essay Under President Andrew Jackson’s presidency, on May 28, 1830, he was authorized by the law to pass the Indian Removal Act since he didn’t tolerate the Indians. This was removing Indian tribes to reserved territory west of the Mississippi River to take over their ancestral homelands for white Americans. The United States’ policies towards the Native Americans in the Southeast was unfair and unjustified. The led up to the Trail of Tears. One of Andrew Jackson’s beliefs was not giving the Native Americans the same equal opportunity and rights as the Americans because he thought the Natives were “savages” and not up to the same level as the Americans.…
That is entirely true, they settled in the west long before the Americans. One of the big cons to Manifest Destiny was Americans used it to justify the corrupt things they were doing. For example, taking the land from the Natives. American’s believed that the expansion was God given. American’s also said God’s plan (Manifest Destiny) was to bring equalizing and an uplifting democracy to the whole continent.…
Knowing the natives would choose to remain independent, President Jackson (1829) proposed to, “[set] apart an ample district.... to the Indian tribes,” so that, “they may be secured in the enjoyment of governments of their own choice,” (para. 4). Later known as the Indian Removal Act, Jackson’s law issued an ultimatum for the Indians: either submit to American rule, or be legally subject to “abandon the graves of their fathers,” and forced to travel thousands of miles to “seek a home in a distant land,” (Jackson, 1829, para. 5). The Americans forced the natives off their land so that they could take it for themselves, and the brutal relocation of natives proved lethal to thousands.…
On May 28, 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. The law authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate with Indians for their removal to federal land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. Andrew Jackson was able to convince the American people that Indians could not coexist peacefully with them. He argued that the Indians were uncivilized and needed to be guarded from their own savage ways. As a result of his actions, thousands of Indians were forcibly ripped from their homes and onto a journey to a unknown territory, that was not as fertile as their home grounds.…