Reading Analysis Essay In the journal, Mobilizing Women, Anticipating Abolition: The Struggle Against Indian Removal in the 1830s, the author Mary Hershberger describes the unprecedented acts of benevolent women participating in abolishment of the removal of Indians introduced by President Andrew Jackson. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in 1830 coercing Cherokee Indians to move beyond of the Mississippi River. The failure of the attempt of abolishing the removal of the Indians, the experience gave way to the support of other campaigns. President Jackson wholeheartedly favored the removal of the Cherokees west of the Mississippi. Jackson and other supporters claimed that if the Indians stayed east of the Mississippi, they would eventually become extinct. White settlers would continually invade their land destroying Indian life and culture. Jackson argued that if they moved west of the Mississippi, it would solve both their issue as well as preserving …show more content…
The Indian removal was a staggering example posed as the commercial injustice with those profiting for personal gain at the expense of the less fortunate. The millions of acres that were forcibly taken by the Indians were utilized for the slave labor as there was an increase in the demand. Women in the new republic had developed interests that diverge from the male electorate and recognized women’s role in promoting public virtue. Women had obligations to act as moral guardians of the nation’s virtue so they had established organizations and societies that improved social life. During the 1820s, women recurrently sponsored Indian youth and community leaders for school and agricultural progresses in their community. Georgia representatives restricted federal provisions of money for schools and agriculture due to their claim of Cherokees eventually becoming