Andrew Jackson Power Analysis

In the mid-1800s the United States began to rapidly grow, the population of the whites sadly outnumbered the Indians tremendously. Due to the growth of the white Americans, they required large amounts of land in order to suit their needs and to provide for their society. President Andrew Jackson’s power influenced many of the white Americans that the land belonged to them, his power as president allowed him to forcefully move the Cherokee west of the Mississippi. The Jackson administration’s decision to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi river in the 1830s significantly changed the previous social, political, and economic policies pursued by the colonies and The United States towards the American Indian tribes.

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The U.S. has stated that, “Those Indian tribes and nations, which have remained under their own form of government, upon their own soil, and have never submitted themselves to the government of the whites, have a perfect right to retain their original form of government…” This is an important political change because the U.S. has already claimed that the Cherokee are civilized. The Cherokee have already had to assimilate and lose their old culture in order to be more like the white people, yet they are being forced to move. By assimilating the Natives, the Americans have to teach the Cherokee all of the white American laws, and inform them that their native laws were “incorrect”, “They must be brought gradually under our authority and laws, or they will insensibly waste away in vice and misery.” The new laws that the Cherokee had to follow were a huge political change they had to undergo, Now that Jackson had become president, as a new leader he made drastic changes like this, that would cause the Cherokee Indians to change all of their old laws and learn the “new laws” that the whites went by. TRANSISTION

Ever since the colonists arrived, “You can look and see that the U.S. has keep taken their land. ‘The earth was given to mankind to those who were capable…”’ This is important because it shows how the United States wanted the land so they could benefit from it; they believed they needed the land the most and it was meant for them. The original goal was to take the land from the Cherokee so they could have some for themselves, eventually, the white Americans ran out of land and needed to remove the Cherokee from theirs in order to have more land for themselves. The Cherokee were known as “uncivilized” and “savages”, the whites not only wanted them for their land, but also wanted the Cherokee people to become like the whites, they believed that, “...the Cherokee Nation may be led to a greater degree of civilization, and to become herdsmen and cultivators, instead of remaining in a state of hunters...” The Cherokee had assimilated and were forced to change from their old ways of life in order to fit in with the white Americans. The Cherokee were becoming like the whites, they began to dress like them, and took up some of their ways of life. Cherokee people began to farm, and started to become “civilized” in the eyes of the whites. TRANSISTION TO NEXT PARAGRAPH

The Cherokee Indians went through drastic social, political, and economic changes during the 1830’s when they were forced to the lands west of the Mississippi River.