...the Indian Removal Act of 1830, it depicts the circumstances regarding towards the persecuted Indian tribes by the authorities of the United States when they were confronted with the enactment under compulsion. The prejudice endorsed by the U.S. towards the native Indian tribes inaugurated with the tenet of manifest destiny in the beginning of the 19th-century. The ideology primarily shapes the justification for the U.S to gradually expand their territory westward. However, the united states would have to be dealt with some...
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...Indian Removal Act of 1830 Essay By: Hayden Yackeren Although many people thought the Native Americans were the Americans allies, they weren’t always. They took the side of our enemies during wars that changed history. One war in particular, 620,000 lives were brutally taken from their friends and family, and the Cherokee were a big part of that. Later, we took over their land and told them to stay and abide by our laws, or move to a reservation. Most Indians went to the reservation, which was bigger than where they previously resided, but the Cherokee were a stubborn tribe who didn’t want to do either. The movement to get the Indians out was called the Indian Removal act of 1830. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was justified because the Indians got to keep a majority of their...
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...My topic is about The Indian Removal Act and how it benefit the Native Americans and/or the Americans. The main components of this topic is that there were many benefits that supported both the Native Americans and the Americans. In the excerpts of Andrew Jackson’s speeches regarding the Removal Act by Hezekiah Niles, it explains how the Removal Act benefits the Native Americans and how it benefits the Americans as well. Along with the excerpts, there was more information from books like History in the Making by Kyle Ward and Term Paper Resource Guide to “American Indian History” by Patrick Russell Lebeau. The Indian Removal Act is when Americans came into Indian territory and forced them out of their homes and properties pushing them toward...
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...The Indian Removal act was not only a symbol in American History but really devastating. The Native Americans that lived in the 1800s especially the 1830s have endured the worst things possible and we didn’t have too because of our own selfish needs. But that’s not all how and why did the Indian Removal act have caused the war and there is more to talk about. Claim The Indian Removal act was important, it was significant to American History, and led to the Civil War. Reason The Indian Removal act was significant to American History because it allows Native a Americans to own that land and keep it from harm, and it led to the Civil War because of fugitive slaves. The Indian removal act was important because it led to the eviction of over...
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...THE INDIAN CONTRACT ACT, 1872 The Law of Contract Constitutes the most important branch of mercantile or commercial law. It affects everybody, more so, trade, commerce anq industry. It may be said that the contract is the foundation of the civilized world. The law relating to contract is governed by the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Act No. IX of 1872). The preamble to the Act says that it is an Act "to define and amend certain parts of the law relating to contract". It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The Act mostly deals with the general principles and rules governing contracts. The Act is divisible into two parts. The first part (Section 1-75) deals with the general principles of the law of contract, and therefore applies to all contracts irrespective of their nature. The second part (Sections 124-238) deals with certain special kinds of contracts, e.g., Indemnity and guarantee, bailment, pledge, and agency. The term contract has been defined by various authors In the following manner: "A contract is an agreement creating and defining obligations between the parties". -Salmond "A contract is an agreement enforceable at law, made between two or more persons, by which rights are acquired by one or more to acts or forbearances on the part of the other or others". -Anson "Every agreement and promise enforceable at law is a contract". -Sir Fredrick Pollock The Indian Contract Act has defined contract...
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...In contrast to past U.S. government policies towards Natives, during the Great Depression of the 1930s when industrialization was at a standstill and Americans were suffering, the government looked to Native past cultural traditions as a possible answer to industrial problems. This was call the Indian New Deal. The policy was offered by the Indians affairs commissioner, John Collier, who admired the Indian’s culture. He stated that they had “…the secret of building great personality through the instrumentality of social institutions” and this knowledge should be appreciated and protected. Collier encouraged mixing the American with the Indian culture and proposed a bill that abolished allotment and helped preserve Indian society. This “New Deal” for Indians was called the Indian Reorganization Act of 1938. This new policy did not benefit all Native tribes. Some like the Navajo, had acculturated, and to go back to old tribal ways financially impacted them negatively. When the New Deal was enacted, the Navajo rejected it because they believed it was a way for the white men to control how they lived. In 1933, their suspicions proved correct when Collier decided that they needed to...
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...Contribution of RTI Act 2005 in last 8 years of Indian Democracy PRIT DAYAL dayal.priti5@gmail.com Contribution of RTI Act 2005 in last 8 years of Indian Democracy In today’s era of power of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, new information and its application hold the key of intense impact on overall productivity gains. Almost every society has made endeavors for democratizing knowledge resources by way of putting in place the mechanisms for free flow of information and ideas so that people can access them without asking for it. People are thus empowered to make proper choices for participation in development process. Every individual or section of society requires wide range of information to be able to effectively function in the knowledge and technology driven economy. Until 2005, an ordinary citizen has no access to information held by public authority. Under the Official Secret Act, 1923, the entire development process has thus been shrouded in secrecy. It was not easy to seek information which affected the citizens, and in lack of such knowledge it was not possible for a common man to participate in meaningful debate on political and economic options available to him. The freedom of speech and expression is guaranteed under the constitution of India. Even then the citizens had no legal right to know about the details of public policies which disables them to scrutinize and rectify the deficiencies in policy planning and the execution program. Thus the...
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...Canada is often painted as the perfect polite country that does little to no harm to other cultures. In a non-Canadian perspective, Canada has always done the right thing. However, our history of exploiting and dehumanizing Indigenous people through state policies contradicts such beliefs. The Indian Act of 1876 is an infamous example of this. The Indian Act is a federal law that governs issues involving an Aboriginal’s status, bands and their reserves in a manipulative manner that exercises white dominance over the Natives. Many of the sections inscribed in the document undermines Canadian Aboriginal culture and creates disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous people. In one of the readings, author Pamela Downe explains how the Indian...
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...THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830 Migdalia Tuero HIST101: American History to 1877 Professor Kathleen Davis February 13, 2014 There are several historical events and issues that have impacted the contemporary political development among American history. In the history of America one of these groups are the Native Americans. The white man throughout the South called for a removal of the Indian peoples. They wanted the Native Indians to be resettled to the west because their presence created a problem for the white man who needed additional land for settlement. “The status of Native American peoples posed an equally complex political problem” (Henretta, Edwards, Self 2012, 302). Therefore, Andrew Jackson posed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This Act was passed on May 28, 1830 in order to authorize the president to give unsettled land in the west to the eastern state Indians as part of the removal from their land. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 removed the Native Americans from their rightful lands and it also is responsible for the deaths of 4000 Native American Indians. In 1830, the population in the states of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and, Florida amongst other southern states, were growing rapidly, therefore it appeared that the “removal to the West seemed the only way to protect Indian peoples from alcoholic devastation and financial exploitation and to preserve the Indians’ culture” (Henretta et al. 2012, 302). However, this was not the case and...
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...The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, also known as the Wheeler Howard Act or the IRA, had a major impact on the everyday lives of Native American Tribes that were scattered across the United states. The Indian Reorganization Act provided the means and tools for tribes to form their own governments and constitutions. The IRA stopped the general allotment act that was put into effect by the Dawes of 1887. The Indian Reorganization Act granted the Secretary of Interior a tremendous amount of power over Native American affairs ranging from land, livestock, employment, government, etc. According to the reorganization plan, after a tribe or nation voted to accept the IRA, it would draw up a constitution and bylaws, submit it to a referendum, have the Secretary of the Interior certify the results, and then start operating as a corporate tribal council. Of the 181 tribes accepting the Indian Reorganization Act between 1934 and 1945, only ninety-six adopted a tribal constitution, and only seventy-three tribes ever received corporate business charters. Seventy-seven tribes with a population of 86,365 members rejected the Act outright. Several of these were large reservation groups, such as the Klamath Indians of Oregon and the Crows of Montana. An especially bitter blow to Collier was the rejection of the IRA by the Navajo Nation. With 98 percent of the eligible Navajo voting, the tribe rejected the Act by 419 votes. The Navajo had not forgiven the Collier administration for its drastic...
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...Critical Thinking Essay (Indian Removal Act) As the 19th century began, Americans who had their eyes set on new unclaimed land poured into the south and began heading towards present day Alabama. Since the Indian tribes living there seemed to be the main thing prohibiting the expansion, white settlers petitioned the federal government to remove them from the land. In his 1829 State of the Union address, President Jackson called for the removal of Native Americans from their tribal lands. Andrew Jackson wanted to renew a policy of political and military action for the removal of the Indians from these lands and worked towards creating a law for Indian removal. The Indian Removal Act was put in place to give to the southern states access to the land that Indians had formerly settled on (U.S. Department of State). The Indian Removal Act brought many issues to the table. Such as whether it was constitutional, who had the authority to pass what, and could it be done peacefully. In 1823, a case, Johnson v. M’Intosh, which was fighting for Indian’s rights, was brought before the...
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...with respect to American Indians, in which tensions between the federal government and natives created a complex trust relationship. The election of Andrew Jackson in 1828 ushered in an era marked by a growing demand to expand westward for political and economic opportunities for the common, white man. By the early 1830s, the U.S. government’s relationship with Indian tribes had changed and President Jackson had come to view the tribes as obstacles to American expansion. Consequently, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law in 1830, authorizing him to negotiate with the Indians for their removal to federal territories west of the Mississippi in exchange for their homeland. While most historians are in...
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...The Indian Contract Act, 1872 is the law relating to Contracts in India. It came into force on September 1, 1872 and is extended to the whole of India except to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian Contract Act, 1872 initially also dealt with Sale of Goods, Indemnity and Guarantee, Law of Bailment, Agency and Partnership. However, in 1930, a separate Act on the Sale of Goods was passed. The Indian Partnership Act was passed in 1932. Interpretation of The Indian Contract Act, 1872 1. When one person signifies to another his willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything, with a view to obtaining the assent of that other to such act or abstinence, he is said to make a proposal; 2. When the person to whom the proposal is made signifies his assent thereto, the proposal is said to be accepted. A proposal, when accepted, becomes a promise; 3. The person making the proposal is called the "promisor", and the person accepting the proposal is called the "promisee"; 4. When, at the desire of the promisor, the promisee or any other person has done or abstained from doing, or does or abstains from doing, or promises to do or to abstain from doing, something, such act or abstinence or promise is called a consideration for the promise; 5. Every promise and every set of promises, forming the consideration for each other, is an agreement; 6. Promises, which form the consideration or part, of the consideration for each other are called reciprocal promises; 7. An agreement...
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...Jose serrano History The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830 which was during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law allowed President Jackson to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their relocation to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. In the early 1800s, the United States government began a well calculated effort to relocate Native American tribes from the southeast to the west side of the Mississippi. The Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Creek, Seminole, and original Cherokee Nations referred to as the "Five Civilized Tribes" by European settlers due to the fact they adopted of aspects of colonial culture. These tribes had been established as independent...
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...The Indian Removal Act was a law issued through our 7th president, Andrew Jackson, on the 28th of May, 1830. It was passed through Congress, authorizing the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their relocation to territory west of the Mississippi River. This would, of course, be in exchange for their ancestral homelands, a trade being made between the United States and five Native tribes. A general resettlement of the the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Seminole Natives would transpire, and between 1830 to 1840, approximately 60,000 Natives went through migration. Though many may argue that this was an act unconstitutionally passed, the amendments of our constitution say quite otherwise. The actions President Jackson...
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