Andrew Jackson's Native American Removal Policy
During the time of Andrew Jackson’s presidency, he had thought it was best to remove the Native Americans from their territory in the South. This was also a chance for him to expand the American territory out more. When the Natives heard of this, they had thought of it to be threatening their territory where they live. Jackson had thought that he was doing the Native Americans a favor but the Natives had thought it to be an act of war. Jackson’s Native American removal policy was not beneficial to both American citizens and Native Americans only to the American citizens and endangered the Native American tribes.
The Indian Removal Policy that was put into place by Andrew Jackson was only to his own and America’s benefits. He had thought that …show more content…
Assuredly said, the Indian Removal Policy was only beneficial to America. Through it all, America only gained more land while the Native Americans lost land. It was a great inconvenience for the Native Americans to be moved from one area of vast land to a smaller area, combining many different tribes together. Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey states in the 1829 Congressional Address that, “We have crowded the tribes upon a few miserable acres on our southern frontier; it is all that is left to them of their once boundless forest”. It is even acknowledge that the Native American’s were just rallied together and cast off into a some smaller land. Also on their journey to their new territory, two-thirds of the Native Americans died on their sorrowful trip and had called the road they were on the “Trail of Tears”. Obviously, the Indian Removal Policy was just so that America could gain land and was only beneficial to them not the Native …show more content…
He had thought that he had been doing the Indians a favor by moving them away from the state's oppression against them but he had only been damaging the Native Americans. This move of the Native Americans only gave America more land and gave the Native Americans less land. Their move also damaged their different tribe by killing an abundance of their people. In conclusion, Jackson’s Native American removal policy was only benificail to Ameriac and not the Native
The Indian Removal Policy that was put into place by Andrew Jackson was only to his own and America’s benefits. He had thought that …show more content…
Assuredly said, the Indian Removal Policy was only beneficial to America. Through it all, America only gained more land while the Native Americans lost land. It was a great inconvenience for the Native Americans to be moved from one area of vast land to a smaller area, combining many different tribes together. Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey states in the 1829 Congressional Address that, “We have crowded the tribes upon a few miserable acres on our southern frontier; it is all that is left to them of their once boundless forest”. It is even acknowledge that the Native American’s were just rallied together and cast off into a some smaller land. Also on their journey to their new territory, two-thirds of the Native Americans died on their sorrowful trip and had called the road they were on the “Trail of Tears”. Obviously, the Indian Removal Policy was just so that America could gain land and was only beneficial to them not the Native …show more content…
He had thought that he had been doing the Indians a favor by moving them away from the state's oppression against them but he had only been damaging the Native Americans. This move of the Native Americans only gave America more land and gave the Native Americans less land. Their move also damaged their different tribe by killing an abundance of their people. In conclusion, Jackson’s Native American removal policy was only benificail to Ameriac and not the Native