Indian Removal Act

for the Indian Removal Act. The goal of this act was to allow the United States access to the lands East of the Mississippi river. There were many different reasons why Congress decided to pass this act, however the primary reason was because the Indians were sitting on large reserves of untouched riches and minerals. This act, however, went against the law, and was highly immoral because it was taking over lands which did not belong to the United States, and involved kicking the Indians out…

missed learning without your personal cultural influences? The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830 to permit the elimination of Indian tribes to federal territory west of the Mississippi River. According to our text (McNamara & Burns) the government then held the belief that the Indians did not have the right to hinder progress within the public (McNamara & Burns, 2009, p. 126). If this act would have occurred when I was a child and held the same…

Natives and U.S. settlements increasingly demanded a solution; Congress eventually passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which they believed would settle the century-long land disputes with Natives. This act forced all Native settlements to migrate to the lands west of the Mississippi so that U.S. settlements would be able to expand further. Between the years 1828 and 1838, over 80,000 American Indians were removed from their homelands and pushed west, giving American Government 15,355,767…

"The Indian Removal Act was signed by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. The Indian Removal Act authorized a series of migrations that became known as the Trail of Tears."3 Andrew Jackson made it his mission to free up land that the Indians had lived on. This removal act was just a way for the government to make more money off their land and a forceful way to move tribes away from their…

(2007), on May 28th 1830, the United States of America passed the Indian removal act, after heated debates in congress, which saw the senate vote as 28 to 19 for the bill. The House of Representatives endorsed it by 101 to 97 votes. President Andrew Jackson then signed it into law. The Indian Removal Act was a law that was passed to allow the president to negotiate with the Indian tribes occupying the Southern states on their removal: and subsequent settlement on the federal territory located to…

advances to force them further west, to the underdeveloped, mostly untouched portion of America. One major player in this mission was called the Indian Removal Act, aptly named for the purpose it was trying to accomplish. President Andrew Jackson was an integral part in enacting this plan. The Indian Removal Act sought to make “deals” with the different Indian tribes in order to move them west. They would “give” them land in the West in replace of the land they would be vacating, or they…

you are a little Indian boy in the midst of playing with his friends on a nice clear day. Suddenly, white soldiers pour into your territory. Those men abruptly pushed you out of your home along with your family. Amongst the yelling of the white soldiers, you hear gunshots echo through your camp. Fellow tribe members fall to the ground, buried in their desperateness to keep their homes. This was called the Indian Removal Act. However, what was the big reason to remove all these Indians from their…

show this, Indian Removal Act shows the extent at which the goal was forgotten. Established under the Jackson administration in 1830, the Indian Removal Act enacted the government 's financial aid in the uprooting of the “Five civilized tribes”- Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. Previously, tribes like the Cherokee attempted to assimilate to the Western life by forming schools, and even adopted the nation’s government model. The government believed that the Indian Removal was a…

horrible things the Cherokee Indians did to Americans. The Indian Removal Act moved lots of Indian tribes to a reserve, this got them out of the way so America could expand westward. All the Indian tribes signed the treaty and all of them moved but one, the Cherokee. The Indian removal act was justified because the act was completely reasonable, The Cherokee did bad things to Americans in the past and they were the last tribe in the way of progress. The Indian removal act is justified…

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…