On July 17, 1830, the Cherokee nation published an appeal to all of the American people. United States government paid little thought to the Native Americans’ previous letters of their concerns. It came to the point where they turned to the everyday people to help them. They were desperate. Their withdrawal of their homeland was being caused by Andrew Jackson signing the Indian Removal Act into law on May 28, 1830. In the letter, the Cherokee nation addresses several reason on why they should not have to move. One reason is that the new land if foreign to them. They are being expected to pack up, leave everything they know, and move to the unknown. Another reason to add on to the above is that there are other Native American tribe already
Obey them when they tell you that your can remain no longer in this country.” 2.1 In General Winfield Scott’s argument, Scott reports the main point of the treaty about the emigration, “[t]his solemn address shall reach your distant settlements, the emigration must be commenced in haste, but I hope without disorder.” And he also warns some Cherokees, who will try to defy the treaty, “Chiefs, head-men and warriors!
It started as the Indian Removal Act of 1830, moving 74000 Indians East and South of Mississippi River. Majority of the Indians deemed it unfair and unjust so they started a rebellion. Causing Jackson to send federal troops to destroy the rebellion, it only gained more reason to get rid of the Natives. While the Cherokee Nation, took a more civilized approach by taking this matter up to the Supreme Court to fight the way the Americas did.
Even the soldiers escorting them felt bad for them, but they had to follow orders. Native Americans had long lived in settlements stretching from Georgia to Mississippi. However, President Jackson and other political leaders wanted to open this land to settlement by American farmers. Under pressure from Jackson, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. Congress then established Indian Territory (land in what is now Oklahoma) and planned to move Native Americans there.
The Trail of Tears was a massive transport of thousands of Native Americans across America. After the Indian removal act was issued in 1830 by president Andrew Jackson, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole tribes were taken from their homelands and transported through territories in what many have called a death march. The government, on behalf of the new settlers ' cotton picking businesses, forced the travel of one hundred thousand Native Americans across the Mississippi River to a specially designated Indian territory for only the fear and close-mindedness of their people. The Native Americans were discriminated against by not only their new government, but also the people of their country and forced to undertake one of the most difficult journeys of their lives.
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 dispersing of the Indians, particularly the five civilized tribes of the southwest: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole fairly began before the approval of the Indian Removal Act. As the European-Americans were progressing the procedure of passing the Act was bound to happen. They were once a secluded society and now forced to a loss of war. The Indian Removal Act was signed on 1830 by President Andrew Jackson. The act allowed President Andrew Jackson to provide the states with federal funds to remove the civilized tribes and reject the Indians from letting them to be part of the European-American society.
The cherokee tribe is a big nation with many ancestors who have known their culture and legends for decades. Who they also have been passing on their cultures and myths. The Cherokee tribe have many cultures. They have six traditional festivals throughout the year.
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.
The Indian Removal Act was passed during Andrew Jackson’s presidency on May 28, 1830. This authorized the president to grant land that was west of the Mississippi River to Indians that agreed to give up their homeland. They believed that the land could be more profitably farmed by non-Indians.
Native American Apache Tribe One’s culture, beliefs, traditions, food, dances, and many other things make people who they are. Everyone is different and believes in different things which make them unique. People’s actions and beliefs are different and have their own special characteristics in life that make them different from everyone else. There is one special culture that really grabs my attention because of how different and unique they are.
Khrystal A. Gutierrez Nov. 9, 2016 Per. 2 Apache Indians Who are the Apache Indians? The Apache Indian are a tribe that was one of that last tribes Americans had to deal with in the 1800-1900s. There name is a Zuni word meaning “enemy”, but to that Spaniards, Comanches, and especially the United States Government were enemies to the Apache.
Under influence of president Andrew Jackson, the congress was urged in 1830 to pass the Indian Removal Act, with the goal of relocated many Native Americans in the East territory, the west of Mississippi river. The Trail of tears was made for the interest of the minorities. Indeed, if president Jackson wished to relocate the Native Americans, it was because he wanted to take advantage of the gold he found on their land. Then, even though the Cherokee won their case in front the supreme court, the president and congress pushed them out(Darrenkamp).
He signed this Act in 1830. While most other Indian tribes chose to take their grievances with Jackson’s Act to the battlefield, the Cherokee were more civilized and knowledgeable about the legal system of the United States and decided to challenge The Removal Act in court. The way of the Cherokee was almost always one which sought for peaceful resolution first. This did not mean every Cherokee tribe chose to make the same decisions. In 1835, a group of Cherokee leaders and made an agreement -a treaty- with the U.S. government to accept payment and land in the west with the promise to relocate.
Have you ever been told what to do even though the law says otherwise? Was it easy or fun, but the same thing happened to the Cherokees and it was harder than what you had to go through because there wasn't as much help back then. The Cherokees were told to either move off of the US land or to follow the US rules. The Indian Removal act of 1830 was not justified because Andrew Jackson did not follow the constitution that he signed, the US forced the Cherokees to leave, and the US compelled the Cherokees to rebuild their nation.
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