Andrew Jackson the seventh president of the United States was devoted to make the nation a better place to be in. This means to have power, wealth, and riches in America. In order to make The United States a better place, president Jackson believed that the Indians were going to become a problem in the near future. There are many arguments for and against Indian removal. One of the major arguments for Indian removal were that due to an increase in cotton production. Jackson wanted the Indians removed so their land could be used to grow cotton. More cotton meant more goods which lead into a better economy. Early in the 19th century the United States was growing rapidly into the lower south. Growing down south was a problem because Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole were settled there. Americans were desperate to expand so the citizens convinced the federal government into acquiring Indian territory. In 1830, president Jackson persuaded a new piece of legislation called the "Indian Removal Act" through both houses of Congress. It gave the president …show more content…
These people brought their roots with them and started to make their own little world. New York a city where most of the population were Christians, was very dense and the population kept increasing rapidly. As the population grew so did the religion of Christianity. Americans wanted to convert Indians into Christians but many Indians denied changing their beliefs. This became a problem for the Americans and felt the need to remove the Indians from their land. Some Indians who did change their religion to Christianity still were not treated the same like the whites. Most Americans felt they were superior to the Indians due to their skin color. No matter what the Indians agreed too, the Americans were never completely fair to the
Andrew Jackson was President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Some call his term a triumph and some a tragedy. A big part of his tragedy was the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Jackson wanted to remove the native tribes from lands in the eastern and southern United States (Stock). Jackson referred to the Native Americans as savages and supported Georgia’s efforts to seize Cherokee land and nullify the tribe’s laws (Foner).
Andrew Jackson, acting as both a government employee and a private citizen, was more responsible than any other single person for creating the region we call the Deep South. He did the most to establish the land for the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. As president, his first significant initiative was a proposal to remove all Indians from the area. But, long before, while serving as a major general, he wrote, “The object of the government is to bring into market this land and have it populated.” Native Americans were removed by armies, acts, treaties and laws.
When Andrew Jackson stated that the the manifest destiny was a right to the citizens of America he created the national thought on whether or not to take the land that rightfully belonged to the indians. Even when he was talking about the manifest destiny, he called the indians uncivilized and savages. That sentence was untrue, The Indian wanted peace not war. One of their strategies were to adopt american
The Indian Removal Act was signed in 1830 by President Andrew Jackson to remove the Cherokee Indians from their homes and force them to settle west of the Mississippi River. The act was passed in hopes to gain agrarian land that would replenish the cotton industry which had plummeted after the Panic of 1819. Andrew Jackson believed that effectively forcing the Cherokees to become more civilized and to christianize them would be beneficial to them. Therefore, he thought the journey westward was necessary. In late 1838, the Cherokees were removed from their homes and forced into a brutal journey westward in the bitter cold.
The Indian Removal Act authorized Jackson to give the Indians land west of the Mississippi in exchange for their land in the states, but could not force them to leave. He violated and broke commitments that he even negotiated with them. He tried to bribe the Indians and even threatened some of them. Alfred Cave organizes his article thematically and is trying to prove
In 1803, the Americans purchased the Louisiana Purchase. Anyways, little did they know, there were many Indians scattered throughout this territory who would not give up their land. The American people started to travel West on the Oregon Trail where they didn’t really interfere with the Indians on their way to finding gold, but something had to be done about the Indians on American property. The Indian Removal Act, issued by Andrew Jackson, who was the seventh president of the United States of America.
He believed Jackson needed a reality check. The Indians were there first, it was their land. He force the Natives to move away from their homeland, with brute force. He believes Jackson could not justify his actions just because it was for America’s benefit. He also stated Jackson refused to listen to many people, and he refused to let Indians live.
4,000 Native American Cherokees died on the dreadful, around 1,000 mile journey to the Oklahoma territory. The United States forced them to move out west. But why wasn’t the U.S government justified to do this? There were two main reasons the Indian Removal Act was wrong.
Although Jackson was important, he was part of many terrible things. Around the 1820s there were many major indian tribes in eastern United States such as Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole. This soon came to a change. Andrew Jackson thought these Indians were in the way of eastern development, using the Indian Removal Act which the congress had approved he decided to kick them out and send them west. In 1831 the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Indians had the right to self government and the United States could not interfere with that.
Most people think he was cruel for creating the Indian removal act but he was only trying to expand america. Jackson’s plan was to move the Indians out so he can expand the U.S. border to the mississippi. Jackson even gave them their own to move to. Jackson said it would help the natives because it would separate them from white settlers. It would also make them free from the power of the state.
Finally, when Christopher Columbus came to the Americas he wanted everybody to convert to Catholicism. If the Native Americans didn’t convert to Catholicism the Europeans would burn them(OSU.EDU). Christopher Columbus didn’t think that the Native Americans had a religion(ChristianHistoryInstitute.com) Even though they were going to be burned, the Native Americans didn’t want to convert to Catholicism(OI). This is the final reason why the Native Americans population decreased
The government tried to force assimilation on Native Americans as well as an attempt to “kill the indian, save the man.” These ideas and policies are similar to those popular during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Jackson developed a sense of ‘paternalism’ towards indians and believed he was saving them by forcing them to live out west of the Mississippi river away from white culture. The difference was that Jackson did not believe in assimilation of indians into white culture, he believed they should be kept separate. With the help of the Federal government removing indians from land west of the Mississippi, Americans were
Writing can change the way people see things. Words have the power to make something horrible seem good, or make an event in history seem very different than how it may have actually gone down. Throughout history, people have used words to empower and destroy people, to showcase something dark in a good light, or to show the darkness of a seemingly good event. One example of this is Andrew Jackson’s, On Indian Removal speech, and Michael Rutledge’s Samuel’s Memory.
Many Native Americans tried to fit in with American culture, by learning to write and read, establishing governments similar to those of the United States, develop their own written languages, and start a plantation system with slavery. However, it was not sufficient. The New American still did not like the Native Americans, and wanted them to go. President Andrew Jackson was the one who thought of immediate solutions to the problem. Indian threaten westward expansion in the mid-nineteenth century with Second Seminole War, Treaty of New Echota, and Trail of Tears, To begin with, the Second Seminole War started after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
However, in 1830, the Indian removal act of 1830 was signed by Andrew Jackson and suddenly everything changed. “The Indian Removal Act in 1830 forced the relocation of more than 60,000 Native Americans to clear