Jeremiah Evarts

Americans are explaining to them that the United States has freedom, so how are they any different from Whites, in that they are not allowed to keep land they have inherited and not taken from anyone else. Chief Ross from the Cherokee County, Jeremiah Evarts, and Peleg Sprague all worked hardly and endlessly in expressing how the United States honored many commitments from the past but now they are taking a turn in getting rid of all the Indian communities. All three men together tried to…

Individuals will remain to feel that they are vassals, and to sink unheeded to despondency, despair, and extinction." Evarts concluded that the Removal Act's goal would not benefit the Natives like President Jackson and Senator Forsyth had suggested. The movement surged because of Evarts but sadly, his death in 1831 also dwindled the movements…

How did the American government shift from an “expansion with honor” policy to a policy of the expulsion of the Cherokee people? The Cherokee people were once a great nation whose population spanned all across the South Eastern corners of the North American continent. The Cherokee people once called states such as North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, and Virginia home. The Cherokee people once governed their own nation, a nation where men hunted and women farmed…

Annika Swenson Period 6 11/16/17 Research Paper Natives had lived on American soil for hundreds of years before Europeans had inhabited it(Document E); however, their birthright did not protect them from the wishes of their American neighbors. Through the Indian Removal Act, Natives were forced to take part in a deadly journey which came to be known as the Trail of Tears. The results of the Trail were catastrophic to Natives, Cherokees alone lost 4000 people on the Trail(Document D); overall,…

According to Stewart (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…

Since the arrival of the Europeans in America, The native Indians had been under a lot of pressures. Acculturation, broken treaties, assimilation and removal policies had a few, if any, positive impacts on the Native Americans. The purpose of this paper is about the Indian removal policies that was created by an American president Andrew Jackson. In the development of this research, the removal of the Cherokees to land west of the Mississippi will be the center of attention . It’s important…