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The Indian Removal Act
Jackson argued with Congress to pass a law calling for the US government to negotiate with five main Indian tribes to relocate west, and he was victorious. He has had a history of wanting the Indians to relocate because the abundance of gold on the Cherokee’s land and how fertile all their land was. The “Five Civilized Tribes” were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw. There are concerns for the effects of the new law, such as the inevitable suffering bound to happen. Jackson defends the policy saying they are better off without the Americans interrupting their practices. Beside a majority of the Cherokee, most of the tribes signed treaties and relocated to the west of the Mississippi. At …show more content…
That area consists of present day Oklahoma and part of Kansas and Nebraska. Cherokees that refused to leave because the treaty were gathered and forced to march with the little belongings they had. One Fourth of the Cherokee population is deceased from the route. The conditions were harsh including climate, disease,and absence of food. One reason for the Native Americans to be relocated is that Americans wanted their fertile land. Also Jackson had always been for Native Americans moving west, as they were once his enemy as a soldier. Watching the Indians travel was a sad sight as a soldier said “Murder is Murder”. Some people did not want the Native Americans to be treated the way they were. This includes Quakers, and even some politicians. Americans saw the Native Americans as lesser than themselves , but considered the Five Civilized tribes to be okay because they adopted American customs. Even at a time where racism was prevalent with slave the Indian Removal act and the greed that resulted in the Trail of tears, rightly named, was …show more content…
He believes it only favors rich upperclassmen.As soon as he was reelceted for his second term he officially declared war on the bank. He did succeed in tearing the bank down. This although a victory for Jackson ended up hurting the economy so much it became a panic. A panic in the economy can cause several banks to fail, and it is less sever that a depression and more sever than a recession. Jackson liked the idea of have large state banks rather that a large federal bank.When the Federal bank fell the state banks popularity increased. This resulted in numerous amounts of money being taken out in loans. When the bank kind of ran out of money they printed more which caused inflation. To solve this problem banks gave out gold and silver in exchange for paper currency. Then they ran of that too. Employers had to cut people because there was no money to pay their salary. No workers mean there were no functioning factors. That meant no jobs, and that meant no money for food or shelter. This all started when Jackson wanted the National Bank to die because it was a monopoly only helping the rich at the expense of the