Indian Removal Act Research Paper

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Is america ours? Well, let's start at the beginning. After the war of 1812 georgians wanted to take the cherokee and other indian tribes land. So they came up with the indian removal act of 1812 it is promising the cherokee land and 5 million dollars if they move west.But, the cherokee and all the other indian tribes did not want to move because we come over and cheat them kill them and steal their land then after the war of 1812 we expect them to just move over to the west peacefully using the indian removal act. So down below this will explain in depth why the indian removal act of 1812 is not justified Well, for starters we actually killed them using muskets and swords killing the men who tried to stop them. as well as we killed them with diseases that we had and we starved them because we killed animals for sport and we introduced new animals to the ecosystem. and intern were killing their way of life now they may have killed some of us but that is like saying a burglar runs into your house kills your family and then is trying to kill you. what do you do, you defend yourself and that is exactly what they are doing they are defending themselves. …show more content…

and making them move to the west. as well as many of them would die and where thieved from when they moved. also the land that we “own” was theirs in the first place. so if anything we should move back across the atlantic and live their. it is their land so deal with it. And even though we are offering them money and land it is still not a good deal. because, it was theirs even the land we have to begin with so why should they move and be robbed and die. Also here is a link to the actual supreme court