Indian removal

violent acts of injustice committed by the United States government against the indigenous peoples of America, perhaps no other effort can compare to the implementation and aftermath of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 for sheer sinister deliberation. By the end of the 1840s, an estimated 16,000 Cherokee indians were forced to leave their homes, 4,000 of whom died along the way from east of the Mississippi to Oklahoma (Teaching History.org, home of the National History Education Clearinghouse.,…

The Treacherous Journey of the Trail of Tears Before the British came over to the Americas, the Cherokee Indians, among many other tribes, inhabited these rolling hills, mountains, and plains. Unfortunately, they were removed from their homeland very viciously. The removal of Cherokee Indians is referred to as the Trail of Tears. The journey of the Cherokee Indians from before their removal, their fight to not be removed, their travel conditions, and the actual event of the Trail of Tears…

and justified by a mid-nineteenth-century ideology (or national vision) known as Manifest Destiny.i Manifest Destiny was infeasible to majority of the people who were willing to get on board with the expansion of America, except for the Indian people. The Indian people felt as though their land, in which they owned, was a good source for hunting, while the settlers thought it was a good idea to expand the nation 's territory. Reaching no concluded agreement, the white settlers came up with an…

how democratic was he? To be democratic means one's support of democracy, which is defined as rule by the people directly or indirectly by elected representatives. Andrew Jackson promoted democratic social/election and banking policies, but his Indian removal policies were on the other hand quite undemocratic. Jackson strongly believed in people’s rights for involvement in government, this social/election policy was democratic because it increased the power of many people. Evidence of people’s…

use of derogatory terms. Eframs point of view seems to be based off an idea that the arch-builders are dumb or savages. This shows a lot of similarities between Efram and the sentiments of the United States government during the Indian removal act. During the Indian removal act Native American tribes and communities were moved to aware from areas that American settlers were beginning to settle in to make sure the settlers could easily settle which would allow for the more rapid expansion of the…

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 for land and urbanization of that land, which were held by the Native Americans at…

This Indian removal policy was put into place after the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which was created during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It granted the federal government the right to forcefully relocate many Native American nations, such as the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Muscogee, Creeks…

century was hard for the Indians to adjust to. The Westerners decided to claim as much as they could. So how could the Indians adjust to such living conditions that had just been pushed onto their land? In recent years the Americans only remembered the Indians when we celebrate “Thanksgiving” and of course the myths and legends of Pocahontas. Sure that was part of the Indian culture only affecting the influence it had on America. There are many things can contribute to this. Indians didn’t have…

The Indian removal itself shows how people will manipulate freedom to benefit from the outcome, which in this case is the land that Indians occupied. The act forcefully encouraged established Indian societies east of the Mississippi to abandon the comfort of their homes and lives in order to move west of the Mississippi. The Cherokee in Georgia are a great example of a stable Indian society where they felt their social independence allowed them…

we find very wrong today. However in that time period, this was considered normal. This might be because it wasn’t viewed as wrong in that time period, or nobody told them it was wrong. In 1830, Andrew Jackson passed a law referred to as the indian removal act of 1830. This law made a lot of natives leave their homes and move west. A lot of them died during the process (webquest 6).This ties into my…