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How Did The Cherokee Removal Act Vs Indian Removal

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The Trail of Tears and the Cherokee and Indian Removal Acts were some of the darkest times in American history. This was a period where thousands of Native Americans were taken from their homes and were forced to move West. These events were fueled by greed and prejudice from both the United States government and its citizens. People who had political power used their authority to harm the Natives and the common folk could do nothing to help. By the end, the Native Americans endured some of the most appalling treatments imaginable. While many Natives saw no point in resisting the American forces, tribes such as the Cherokee were determined to fight back. Overall, high tensions between Americans and Native people led to the Indian and Cherokee …show more content…

The Americans had always felt resentment toward the indigenous people, and they saw property disputes as a way to get rid of Natives entirely. While most Americans liked the idea of removing Native’s, some people strongly opposed it. One such person was Jeremiah Evarts. Under the name of William Penn, Evarts wrote several letters to Congress to try to convince them to not pass the Removal Act. In 1829, Evarts wrote “A Brief View of the Present Relations between the Government and People of the United States and the Indians within Our National Limits.” Here, he stated that, “...the removal of any nation of Indians from their country by force would be an instance of gross and cruel oppression….” Evarts adamantly tried to remind government officials and regular people like himself that Native Americans had rights of their own. He also believed that the government’s job was to protect the Natives, not to push them away. Unfortunately, few people saw things in this way, and so Evarts’ efforts were in …show more content…

The Cherokee tribe specifically was one of the most defiant groups of the Removal Act. One of the most notable forms of protests that the Cherokee did was contacting the United States Congress. These actions eventually led to the Cherokee Removal Act. Officials realized that the Indian Removal Act failed to control the Cherokee, so some states extended jurisdiction into the Cherokee nations to force them out. By having this power, states like Georgia were able to sell the Cherokees land while they were still living there. In 1832, flyers like the Survey of John Ross’s Plantation were posted everywhere to break up and sell the Cherokee property. In this specific flier, Cherokee chief John Ross’s plot was being sold, asserting Georgia’s power over the Cherokee nation while simultaneously insulting the

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In the book, The Cherokee Removal, Perdue and Green argue that the Cherokee Nation was treated unfairly by the U.S. Government in the 1800s. The majority of Americans were not fond of the Native Americans, and the Americans felt as if the Native Americans were on their rightfully owned property. Perdue and Green display how the states were trying to remove the Natives when they write, “A state could use its legal institutions to make life for Indians so miserable that they would gladly sell their lands and flee to the West” (Perdue and Green, 73).

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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).

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The Act led to an array of legal and moral arguments for and against the need to relocate the Indians westward from the agriculturally productive lands of the Mississippi in Georgia and parts of Alabama. This paper compares and contrasts the major arguments for and against the

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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.

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This story of the Seminoles’ struggles for identity and sovereignty is a microcosm of the true horrors inflicted on Indian nations by the federal government. The Seminoles remarkably defied federal, state, and local government pressures of removal in the early nineteenth century. They also disputed Creek insistence on tribal consolidation, and other Indian nation claims to their property. Among the federal tactics were the illegal removals, and treaties that meant little to the federal government when land, as part of Manifest Destiny, and wealth the federal government sought entered the equation. The Seminoles also endured the paternalism, coercion tactics, and pressures from Bureau of Indian Affairs agents who made promises to them that were frequently broken.

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In 1830 Andrew Jackson passed the “1830 Indian Removal Act” (2) though senate. Out of the five major Native American groups that were affected by this legislation, only the Cherokee decided not to run or give up, but rather fight in the courts. This led to the most referenced court case in the supreme court history. This court case is a mile stone in the United States History due to, the events leading up to the court case, the Supreme Court ruling represents, and what became of the court’s decision.

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While white settlers bought up lottery tickets and a chance at Cherokee land, the Georgia Legislature began to pass new laws that would override Cherokee sovereignty. Georgia ruled that meetings of the Cherokee Legislature and courts would be illegal and anyone living on Cherokee land and not Cherokee were subject to approval under Georgia law. Some would blatantly reject these imposes of Georgia, one being Samuel Worchester, a white missionary who lived in Cherokee territory for years was jailed and sentenced to “hard labor.” Georgia state legislator’s efforts, were in essence to write the Cherokees out of existence, ignoring the nation’s constitution, borders and laws in the pursuit of Cherokee land. When Cherokee’s approached President

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The white men were trying to force the Cherokee out of their own land. The white men made the Indian removal act to force the Indians out no matter what. The historical question means, should the Cherokee leave or stay and if they stay they will lose all their ways but if they leave they could have their own land. People might disagree because they feel the Cherokee owned the land before any white man would have even known that land existed. My answer to the question is for the Cherokee to leave and just not bother with the men trying to make them change their ways.

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The “Indian Removal Act”, for example, was put into action in order to clear out the land for white settlers to live upon. The United States used such shameful methods as the slaughter of native tribes as well as biological warfare through blankets covered in smallpox. Forced marches used to relocate the natives resulted in very high death rates. The “Trail of Tears” in 1838 was cause by the Indian Removal Act, and caused the destruction of the majority of the Cherokee tribe. After being removed from their homes, the Native Americans were placed in a small reservation with little land and resources.

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They almost achieved universal literacy at a time when a lot of their white neighbors could barely read and or write. But the whites still weren’t satisfied. But after 1828, it wasn’t only about the matter of land because there was a discovery of gold in Ward’s Creek. Ward’s Creek was a western branch of the Chestatee River in the state of Georgia in the middle of the Cherokee Nation. And on December 20, 1828, Georgia passed an act annexing all Cherokee land in the state and pushing away all of the Cherokee laws and

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The letter written by Henry Dearborn addressed to Callender Irvine in 1803 stated, “policy encouraged Indians to adopt white American customs and economic practices.” It shows that some of the Native Americans that the U.S. government tried

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" They offer you a fraction of what it cost, and you refuse. Now, they don 't give you any money and bring a small army to force you off your land! You wouldn 't like that would you? Well, that 's what happened to the Cherokee, and it was deemed proper because of the lies the government fed

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Many years before the American Civil War began, white settlement into Native Land was a growing issue. White Americans wanted the land many Natives lived on, as the land was rich with soil, and a rumor was heard that gold was found in the land. “The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians” (Garrison Cherokee Removal). American Indians; including the Cherokees, were seen as savages and unable to fully adapt to American traditions and values. “In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which gave the federal government the power to exchange Native-held land east of the Mississippi for the land in the west … located in present-day Oklahoma” (Editors The Trail of Tears).

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