support the removal of Indians? In 1830‚ President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. Indian tribes were forced to move from their homelands to the Indian Territory. On their journeys to the Indian Territory‚ the Indians faced exposure‚ disease‚ and starvation. Many died on their journeys. The Native Americans began to call this trail "The Trail of Tears." In my opinion‚ the Trail of Tears was a very despondent event in history. I do not support the removal of Indians. To begin with
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documents. You will have 60 minutes to read and analyze the documents and answer the question. This question tests your ability to work with historical documents. To what extent was the decision of the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830’s was more a reformulation of the national policy that had been in effect since the 1790’s than a change in that policy? Document A Document B Source: Henry Knox‚ secretary of war‚ letter
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“civilize”‚ assimilate‚ and/ or make peace with the Natives. The decision made by the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to the land west of the Mississippi in the 1830’s did not affect the economic‚ and political continuations of policies; however‚ there were social changes pursued by the colonies and the United States towards the American Indian tribes. Nearly ninety years apart‚ there was an economic continuation and social
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and Michael Green. In 1838-1839 the US troops expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for land during the growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast‚ the discovery of gold on the Cherokees land‚ and the racial prejudice that many white southerners had toward the Indians. The Cherokees had lived in the interior southeast‚ for hundreds
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president of his time. Although he was extremely contradictory‚ he attained being seen as a war hero‚ an intelligent political man‚ and a great representation of the American dream. It is hard to believe that the same man who slaughtered thousands of Indian people and forced them out of their homeland received ample attention and admiration. This fame is because of his military
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support for one year as said in the excerpt from Indian Removal Act 1830 (source 1). This act should be justified because it resolved the conflicts between the U.S. and the Indies were given comparable land and support. In Source 2 Andrew Jackson makes a speech about if the Indians movie it will benefit the U.S. and make Alabama and Mississippi stronger. The U.S. wanted to separate the Indians for many reasons. Andrew Jackson wanted the Indians to stay away from whites‚ “by opening the whole territory
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often he did away with the laws of the constitution and followed his own ways. In 1829 Andrew Jackson created the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act was a law that stated that Native Americans that were settled east of the Mississippi River had to move west of the river to a portion of land that was set aside for them in the Oklahoma territory. The Cherokee Indians that were settled in Georgia became angry with the law and decided to sue the state of Georgia‚ because they felt like they
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democratic by saying Americans needed to help these people before they became “extinct‚” and they would do so by pushing them west into a land for just them (Doc 8). In 1830‚ Jackson secured the passage of the Indian Removal Act‚ which authorized him to exchange public lands in the west for Indian territories in the
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The Indian Removal act of 1830 was in short; an act made law by Andrew Jackson relocating many Native American tribes west of the Mississippi river to unsettled lands. This would open up safer territory for those looking to colonize further west than the original thirteen colonies. Here are four men’s messages regarding the act that gives further insight into it all. Andrew Jackson’s Second Annual Message was a paper addressed to Congress in which he spoke about the good of The Indian Removal Act
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Southwest Wisconsin after they had gone under attack first by the Ottawa and Iroquian-speaking Neutrals‚ and then the Iroquois. Then‚ in 1833‚ the Kickapoo’s were forcibly removed by the military and moved to Oklahoma and Texas.This was all known as the “Indian Removal” and Kennekuk led the Kickapoo’s. 1832 was also the year that the Missouri Kickapoo exchanged their reserve
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