Native American Pros And Cons

The whites believed Native Americans we alien creatures, unfamiliar, and occupied the land that the white settlers wanted. A couple of years earlier the American Republic, such as George Washington believed that the way to solve this “Native American Problem” was to teach the Native American how regular people are. In other words, to civilize the Native Americans. The Civilization Campaign meant to try to encourage Native Americans to change their religion to Christianity, learn and speak the English language, learn how to individualize ownership of property and money. The Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and the Cherokee tribes became known as the “Five Civilized Tribes.” The land that they belong at is: Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee is where the whites had came all of the

In some of the state government has passed laws saying to limit Native Americans rights, territory, power, and authority. In the U.S. Supreme Court, they rejected the laws that limited Native American rights. The harshness still continued especially from the President Andrew Jackson. President Andrew Jackson spoke out on he called the “Native American Removal.” He was an Army general. He spent many years fighting the land from the Native Americans to give to the white farmers. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson, he signed the Native American Removal Act. When President Jackson signed the act, it gave the Federal government power to exchange with the Native Americans. They were considered as part of the United States. When that happened, it gave the government to do treaties fairly, voluntarily and peacefully. No one that was powerful, never even the president, can force Native Americans to give up their land. President Jackson ignored the letter of the law made by the government and he forced the Native Americans to leave their territory where they lived for many