Indian removal

The Removal Act of 1830 was signed by seventh President of the U.S., Andrew Jackson. This act allowed the President to explore unsettled lands pushing the Indians west. The act was not in specific removal of Indian tribes, but in order to acquire their land with treaties. Andrew Jackson professed the Indian Removal Act would be best for the tribes to get away from the whites and it gave them their chance to escape U.S. power. In Jackson's eyes, removing the Indians will also grant them a…

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. On October 2nd, 1832, Elias Boudinot wrote, “The states’ control over the Cherokee government will stop their progress and it…

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…

The removal of Indians resulted in this brutal effect. They were moved from their home and had to leave the graves of their ancestors and everything behind as they were forced to transfer to the west. Andrew Jackson’s proposed Indian Removal Act of 1830 is the main cause of this malice and inhumanity. Racism to Indians plays a large role in the concept and action of this act. In Andrew Jackson’s annual message Transcript of President Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress ‘On Indian Removal’…

unfair agreements is the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This law was signed into law in May of 1830 by President Andrew Jackson (Library of Congress). It gave Jackson the power to grant Native American lands within state borders to white Americans in exchange for land that was unsettled west of the Mississippi. This act lead to many Native Americans being forcefully removed from their homes and lands and being forced into lands west of the Mississippi. Through the Indian Removal Act of 1830,…

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…

Indian Removal: Is it justified? The Act of Removal of the Cherokee Indians was a rough era in history. The Removal of the Indians happened because the citizens of Georgia wanted to mine on their land. The Cherokee Indians had refused to let them mine on their land because the land belonged to the legally and they were not going to let some strangers come and take their land away from them. How would you like it if someone came into your house and told you to leave? I don't think that you…

The Indian Removal Act The Indian Removal Act was an event that happened in 1838. This event was the removal of the Cherokee. The U.S Congress pass this act so that the americans could move to their lands. It was not right for the americans to take the Cherokee lands. 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…

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 The Indian Removal Act of 1830 is a very highly debated act. According to Johansen (2000), the removal of the “civilized tribes” from their homeland is one of the most notable chapters in history of American land relations (pg. 80). The removal influenced the natives in more ways than you can imagine. They had to change the way they live, the way they do things, the way they dress and even some had to speak a different language if they wanted to remain in their…

When the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed, it gave the president, Andrew Jackson, power to talk to the tribes and negotiate them into signing a treaty saying that they will move to the Indian Territory. He promised money and new land, and most tribes moved, but the Cherokee refused, and for good reasons. The Indian Removal act was not justified at all since the Cherokee helped us during the war of 1812, the Supreme Court already sided with the…