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How Was Andrew Jackson Indian Removal Act Justified

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“Chief John Ross led in prayer and when the bugle sounded and the wagons started rolling, many of the children rose to their feet and waved their little hands good-bye to their mountain homes, knowing that they are leaving them forever.”(Courtesy Marion Co., Arkansas Historic Geneological Society) Cherokee Indians had to move from their homes during the snow not to somewhere warm but west where it was freezing cold. President Andrew Jackson was a war hero but not a good leader of our country. He pasted a treaty that the Cherokee Indians had to give up their land and move west of the Mississippi River. President Jackson promised the Indians horses and shelter but he did not give them anything. Indian removal act was not justified because President Jackson was not being a good leader, they Cherokee Indians were there first and claimed their land before the white settlers came, lastly the Indian Removal was very cruel and …show more content…

President Jackson didn’t treat the CHerokee Indians with respect at all. In the U.S. Constitution it states that the CHerokee Indians were there first and they own the land that they took their territory. President JAckson said,” The sooner you do this, the sooner you will commence your career of improvement and prosperity.”(Doherty and Jaffe) Meaning that the sooner the Cherokee Indians moved west of the Mississippi River the sooner you will get our help moving. Another example is that the Cherokee Indians didn’t move when the white settlers wanted them so, “ In Georgia, especially, multitudes were allowed no time to take anything with them. Also, the property of many has been taken, and sold before their eyes for almost nothing,”(Green and Perdue) This shows that President Jackson didn’t let the Indians pack up their stuff so, they would have some supplies to walk on the “Trail of Tears”. President Jackson was very unfair and unconstitutional to all of the Native

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President Andrew Jackson was not a good leader. I say this because he was unfair. President Jackson Signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The Indian Removal act was started because people in Georgia wanted to expand their land to the South so they could plant more crops. By doing this the Indians were forced to move out of there land.

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The Indian Removal Act was to exchange unsettled lands west of the Mississippi for indian lands. The impact of the Indian Removal Act was that the people could claim indian lands and they moved the indians to unsettled lands west of the Mississippi. According to the book it says that the indians felt forced to sell their land and move west. The Cherokee Nation refused to move or sell their land to the United States government.

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Why did Andrew Jackson sign the Indian Removal Act of 1830? The Trail of Tears is, and forever will be, an unfortunate event in American history. Many would wonder what led to this tragic event. And even though there were a lot of contributing factors, the main cause of this was the Indian Removal Act. This act allowed Native Americans to be forcefully removed by the American government.

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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a time where there were lots of contradictions. Meanwhile It was a period of land hungry Americans who wanted to expand land democratic institutions which unfolded the limitations of democracy. The states put an end to property restrictions and due to the Louisiana purchase of1812 the American's saw more opportunities to start expanding and settling in towards the west, but was all destroyed for the native Americans who lived that way. No one knew the way the democracy worked at this age better than the Cherokees, who embraced their lifestyle and culture only to be mistreated and misunderstood when sent to be moved forcibly against their will from their home land and move to the east. In this document I will

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Cave adds, “He failed to honor promises made in his name in order to win congressional support of the removal, and he broke a number of federal treaty commitments to Indians, including some that he had personally negotiated” (Cave). Jackson broke promises he made for his own personal benefit and disregarded the people involved. As mentioned earlier, the Supreme Court acknowledged and ruled in favor of the Cherokee stating that Indian tribes were domestic dependent nations. The Supreme Court also noted how they could conduct their own political processes and that they were afforded the protection of the federal government (McNeill). Everything was against what Jackson was trying to do to the tribes and not just morally, but they were supposed to be protected by the government.

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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was justified because the Cherokee scalped many Americans during the 1700s and 1800s, their leaders already agreed to move, and we gave them even more land than

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But, Jackson Completely did not care about the Native Americans and used great military force when the deadline was reaching for the “Trail of Tears” to end. In the end Andrew Jackson because of his force killed over 4000 Native Americans on the journey. This was very cruel for Jackson to do, especially killing this many people on the journey. On top of his killing them, it was very inhumane for him to make them walk this distance and not even give them any help along the treacherous journey. You might have thought that this was all for the better for the states and expanding the new nation, but it was uncalled for him to force

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But this time according to the appeal on the Law made in 1830 which prohibited whites from living on Indian territory after March 31, 1831, without a license from that state. So when with the Supreme Court they decided that the Cherokee did not have a right to keep and have their own government in their land, the Georgia extensions of the state's law to be agents the law. From the Indian Removal Act you can see that Andrew Jackson different Values and beliefs than the CHerokees. Andrew Jackson valued American Progress and expansion, because he wanted and continuously was trying to remove the indians out of their land because he believed that they were obstacles to the american progress.

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Jackson wanted his country to have more land, which is a good thing. However, the Indians were unfamiliar with the land that they were forced to move to. They wanted to stay on “the land of their fathers.” This was shown in the Indian removal document 2. They had to leave their homes, their farms, their streams, and their forests.

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Would you remove an abundance of Indians from their homes for money? That is what the Indian Removal Act did. Hundreds of Native Americans were taken from their homes. Andrew Jackson and John Ross had a debate on if they should get rid of the Indian Removal Act or if they should keep it. The Indian Removal Act was a step in the right direction.

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After many excruciating and bloody battles, one example being the Battle of Horse Show Bend, Native American tribes began to realize they couldn’t defeat Americans in war. Instead they developed a strategy of appeasement. This plan consisted of the Native Americans giving up a large portion of their land, in hopes that they could retain some of it. However, appeasement and resistance did not work. Following, Andrew Jackson convinced congress to pass the Removal Act of 1830.

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The Indian Removal Act was a deal, which made the president, Andrew Jackson, of The Unites States authorised to resettle the Indian tribes who lived in the eastern parts of Mississippi. The deal was signed in 1829 and took effect in 1830. The main reason for why Jackson signed the deal was plain and simple. The American soldiers found huge amounts of gold in the areas of the Natives, and they wanted the Natives removed so that they could dig and search for more. A few of the tribes decided to leave peacefully, while others tried to resist Andrews unfair policy.

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No living human is either entirely virtuous or wholeheartedly evil. Sometimes it can seem that way, but that’s because most of the time individuals hear want to hear what they want to hear. This concept is entirely true in regard to Andrew Jackson, who people can see as a heroic American war hero who came from nothing and stood by his beliefs or the complete opposite. People could also perceive him as an evil, tyrannical leader who forced thousands of Native Americans out of their homes. I believe Andrew Jackson was not a hero but a villain because of the way he treated Native Americans, the actions he took during his presidency, and the fact he was a slave-owner.

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Other presidents had wanted to move the Native Americans further west so that they could utilize their land, but they never really enforced it, until Andrew Jackson came along. He used the law to get Native Americans to move west from the land they grew up on. The military was even involved in enforcing the removal of the Native Americans in an event known as the Trail of Tears which killed many. Jackson earned the name “sharp knife” for how harshly he treated them and had his people speak out about how horrific it was. This can be observed in paragraphs 10 and 11, “The event was so horrific, a soldier in Georgia who helped in the removal said, “I fought in many wars between the states and have seen many men killed.but the Cherokee Removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.”

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There is a saying in Africa, “Don’t make decisions about us, without us!” Andrew Jackson did not talk to the Indians before he made a bad decision which cost the lives of 4,000 Indians and dislocated 46,000 others. At the same time, the settlers weren’t happy with the Indian Removal Act process, it was too slow for them. “The policy was enacted with remarkable speed, but not fast enough to satisfy whites in the South and Southwest.” (p.331) Jackson's Democracy was always cast for the benefit of white men, it didn't even include white

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