Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

Thomas Jefferson found the solution for the “Indian problem” was to “civilize” the Indians. With little success of converting the “savages” into…

evidence provided, white Americans tended to view the removal policy in split opinions, while the Native Americans had a generally bad view of the policy. The Indian Removal policy caused for a stir of positive and negative opinions in the United States, by both the Cherokee nation and white Americans. The white perspective of the Indian removal was a generally accepting one, though more Americans preferred the idea of the Cherokee becoming citizens. Andrew Jackson stated that if the Cherokee…

The Indian Removal Act, or Trail of Tears, was a massive forced migration of many Indian tribes in the southeastern United States in the mid 1800’s. The Indian Removal Act caused a massive disturbance in the Native American tribes of the southeast United States. In the early 1830’s thousands of Cherokee Indians lived on a vast expanse of the southeastern United States, however, in the end of the 1840’s hardly any remained as a result of the Indian Removal Act (History). The Indian Removal Act…

To take something and claim it as yours, when you never owned it in the first place...the United States government and public supporters sought to justify the removal of Cherokee Indians in the 1820 and 1830s, and tried to move them west of the Mississippi river. Big supporters like Lewis Cass and the state of Georgia played a big role in justifying the removal. Lewis Cass wrote essays to support, and Georgia told the Cherokees to either abide by Georgia law, or get out. United States and…

The Age of Jefferson and Jackson had many similarities as well as differences in the cultural realms. Both of them being democratic gave them similar, but at the same time contrasting views. As the third president of the US, Thomas Jefferson did much for his people. Prohibiting slave importation during his second term and adding the 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution, Jefferson worked hard to improve life for Americans. He wrote the Declaration of Independence, found the…

Grant Foreman discusses the tragic events that occurred during the Cherokee’s travel to Indian Territory in the 1830s. Grant Foreman argues that diseases were the main struggle for the Cherokee Tribe. In Grant Foreman’s Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Grant states that the Cherokee Indians “had suffered much from disease and several deaths had occurred among them” (Foreman, 256). Measles and cholera were the main diseases that affected the Cherokee…

The Indian removal movement of 1830 started because Americans were moving west and acquiring land to settle, but the Indians became the obstacle. Another factor that made the Americans to remove the Cherokees was, because of the gold that Georgians had found in Cherokee’s land. The government would make treaties, but the government would not fully follow the treaties. While the Americans moved west, they introduced diseases, but this was not enough to wipe out the tribes, war was the answer. It…

Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 could be viewed as the start of racial tension between two different cultures. Jackson’s hatred was based on what he wanted and his non-stop effort to obtain Indian land at no cost. Indian suffrage and loss would come at a high cost. This in turn led to the removal called the Trail of Tears, where Indian were forced to move hundreds of miles away from their home land and their lives were lost at a high rate.…

and plundered villages, which purposefully depleted the Native American population. The tumultuous relationship boiled over when Andrew Jackson, known for his hatred of the British and Native Americans, signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 (Tindall and Shi 342). The Indian Removal Act authorized Jackson to give the Native Americans land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for the land in the south and in the east (Tindall and Shi 342). The removal of the Native American's was primarily…

actions towards Native Americans remain as a notorious part of his presidency. The United States desired to expand westward, but Indians living in the South presented a formidable roadblock. With integration proving to be too difficult, Jackson proposed the Indian Removal Act that passed in Congress in 1830. The act allowed Jackson to trade federal territory with Indians for their land. Jackson’s First and Second Annual Message revealed his attitudes towards Native Americans residing in needed…