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Evaluating Andrew Jackson's Killing People

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Although Andrew Jackson ended up killing people, he was doing what he thought was best for the nation. Even though Jackson tried giving the Native Americans land elsewhere, they fought back, causing the Seminole wars and the trail of tears. Though Jackson had commendable intention multitudes of Native people were killed along with the culture. “[Forced] removal of 20,000 Cherokee from their ancestral lands”1 was probably one of the worst decisions Andrew Jackson could have enforced. Evaluating Andrew Jackson’s decisions we can try and get inside his mind, figuring out why he made the choices he did and what ethical backing he had behind it all.
Where did this all begin? From our first interactions with Native Americans, we have always
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