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
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200 miles of rugged land. Over 4,000 of these Indians died of disease, famine, and warfare. The Indian tribe was called the Cherokee and we call this event the Trail of Tears. As you will soon learn, it is one of the most brutal and racist events to happen in America. The Trail of Tears happened when Hernando De Soto took his adventures to America. After he came to America more and more Europeans came and began to invade on Indian land. The Indians became lost in bewilderment and anger. Some tribes
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we destroyed ourselves.” Quoted from Abraham Lincoln. Although the quote itself was not directly associated with 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
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Jackson believed that the Cherokee were occupying valuable territory, which could be used for other necessities such as expanding farms and plantations. In the 1830’s, Andrew Jackson’s administration passed the Indian Removal Act; therefore causing the Cherokee Indians to travel to the west of the Mississippi river resulting in thousands of deaths. When the Indian Removal Act was set into place there was a drastic change in the political policies; however, the Cherokee tribes economic and social
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support of Indian removal provoked controversy not only in the Indian tribes, but also among the American community. Jackson's refusal to respect the independence of the Cherokee tribe, allowed the state of Georgia to assert its jurisdiction over the Cherokees. With Andrew Jackson's assistance, Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed which authorized the relocation of eastern Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River. President Andrew Jackson was the main supporter of the removal of Indian tribes
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native lands? 3 In December of 1835, a Cherokee treaty council signed away tribal lands and agreed to move the Cherokee people west of the Mississippi. What methods did the American Government use to obtain that treaty? Discuss the paradox of how a nation as the United States, founded on democratic principles of the government, could justify signing such a fraudulent treaty. In the Trail of Tears, there was a man named John Ross who was a well educated Cherokee leader. At the age of 19, he became
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migration of the Trail of Tears started i when President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1930, which was setup up to rid the new American land of all natives and free it for all the new English settlers. This gradual process of removing these 46,000 natives tribes took place over a seven year span, between 1930-1937. This inter-regional migration of the the Native American tribes included the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and the Seminole peoples. They were all from the southeastern
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helped pass the “Indian Removal Act.” The act gave the president the power to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes that lived east of the Mississippi. The removal was supposed to be peaceful, but some of the southeastern tribes resisted and Jackson forced them to move. Out of the Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Cherokee it can be argued that the Cherokee had it the hardest. The Cherokee were tricked into signing the Treaty of New Echota. Led by Chief John Ross, the Cherokee signed a petition
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settle the ongoing issue of the Indians and the land that they held within the states; as a result most of the energy and resources of his administration were focused on settling the dispute and moving on with the Nation. Within Jacksons first year in office he had plans to relocate the Indians to west of the Mississippi. With the relocation, Americans would be free to settle the land vacated by the Indians. Jackson’s stance on the issue is that if the Indians are not willing to adapt they
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Journal Entry of a Subordinate Group Member My name is Awanita, which means in my native language the fawn. I am part of the Cherokee tribe. It is believed that we originated by passing over the Bering Strait (Alaska) during the Ice age from Asia, while the Bering Strait was still frozen. Many spread out over parts of Canada, and North and South America (N.A. 2, 2011). Now people have invaded our land and have brought with them diseases that have struck our people. We have been at war with the
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