As President of the United States, there are countless challenges that must be overcome. There isn 't always a right answer or an easy solution, and Andrew Jackson was no exception to this. One of these incidents was the Indian Removal Act, where Jackson decided that all of the natives living east of the Missouri River would have to march a 1,200-mile trek to the Indian reserve, which is currently modern day Oklahoma.1 Many historians today view Jackson 's actions as cruel and unnecessary. This evidence will help prove that the Indian Removal Act could have been avoided if they had followed their own laws, respected moral boundaries, and considered the consequences of their actions. The law by itself didn 't give Jackson the power to remove
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The Cherokee had their own newspaper, The Cherokee Phoenix, slaves, schools, and many other things adapted from the Americans.4 The Cherokee were so much more advanced than what most of the Americans during that time recognized. Jackson didn 't want to show that these people were civilized or his plan to relocate them would be foiled because people would be sympathetic to others that are so similar to each other. They would be sympathetic to the people who lived in log cabins, owned stores, established plantations, and had a constitution;5 this wasn 't the Americans, it was the Indians that were civilizing themselves and learning from their …show more content…
The natives have been in America for nearly 12,000 years.6 They have grown up where their ancestors lived, where the ground was special to them and had a deeper meaning to them than to anyone else. Not only was this their land in a spiritual sense, tribes like the Cherokee, where legal owners of their land that the cherished.7 The white settlers only had one reason for their need to take the Indian land: greed. They wanted the gold, that was recently found in Georgia, for themselves and also wanted to set up plantations to grow crops to ship up north to become rich. These settlers hated the Indians simply because they had legitimate claims on their land. The settlers didn 't understand that the land meant more to them than any amount of crops, gold, or money. Ancestral connections were very strong with them and could not be easily
The Cherokee had their own newspaper, The Cherokee Phoenix, slaves, schools, and many other things adapted from the Americans.4 The Cherokee were so much more advanced than what most of the Americans during that time recognized. Jackson didn 't want to show that these people were civilized or his plan to relocate them would be foiled because people would be sympathetic to others that are so similar to each other. They would be sympathetic to the people who lived in log cabins, owned stores, established plantations, and had a constitution;5 this wasn 't the Americans, it was the Indians that were civilizing themselves and learning from their …show more content…
The natives have been in America for nearly 12,000 years.6 They have grown up where their ancestors lived, where the ground was special to them and had a deeper meaning to them than to anyone else. Not only was this their land in a spiritual sense, tribes like the Cherokee, where legal owners of their land that the cherished.7 The white settlers only had one reason for their need to take the Indian land: greed. They wanted the gold, that was recently found in Georgia, for themselves and also wanted to set up plantations to grow crops to ship up north to become rich. These settlers hated the Indians simply because they had legitimate claims on their land. The settlers didn 't understand that the land meant more to them than any amount of crops, gold, or money. Ancestral connections were very strong with them and could not be easily