Imagine being woken up in the middle of the night and being taken out of one’s house by soldiers and moved from their homelands to a foreign land in the west. That is what happened to the Indians during the Indian removals. The Indian Removal Act gave the government enough power to seize the Indian’s land and move them west. The removals were meant to be peaceful and fair. They were also supposed to be done voluntarily (“Trail”). Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act on May 28‚ 1830.
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The Cherokee Indians The American Indian History in the Eastern part of the country is always associated with the Cherokee Indian nation. The Cherokee’s were by far the largest and most advanced of the tribes when Europeans first arrived and came in contact with Native Americans. There are too many tribes to go over background on every one of them‚ so I’m going to focus on the Cherokee’s since many of their ways and customs are so similar to all the other tribes in the East. When Europeans
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Period 3 Andrew Jackson Response Questions 1. What do you see? How does Jackson change over time? What do we know about Jackson based upon these portraits? The first shown portrait of Andrew Jackson was a small picture by a friend Jean-Francois de la Vallee. This image shows Jackson as the young‚ poor‚ and common man. The following images however‚ show Jackson in an athletic position and give the sense of heroicness and justice. This dissimilarity indicates the first two of three stages
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Andrew Jackson DBQ Andrew Jackson served two terms as president from 1829 to 1837. Since then‚ Jackson’s name has been tied very closely to democracy. Democracy is a form of government in which all people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. During Jackson’s presidency‚ he was presented with many issues that tested his democratic devotion. Overall‚ Jackson seemed to move the country toward democracy‚ but individual issues he handled‚ like the Bank Veto‚ the removal of
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Act was not justified because the U.S. Government (President Jackson)‚ lied to the Cherokee people about what they promised‚ President Jackson took away the Cherokee’s rights and the Cherokees had a lot of hardships while they walked the Trail of Tears. The Indian Removal Act was not fair for anyone and shouldn’t have been created in the first place. So many people lost their lives and their rights so it was not justified. President Jackson lied harshly to the Cherokees about what they were promised
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government agents chosen to arrange the removal‚ but the events as they actually transpired ran totally opposite to what he expected and promised. Jackson’s policy nearly destroyed many Native American lives they lost everything like in the road of tears. The president had said that the Indians were correct and could stay but Jackson said u could stay but u will be killed and that ruined many lives it ruined their culture‚ Language and customs. Jackson quoted that if the Indians stayed they would “disappear
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Chapter 1 Augustine and his friends are doing bad stuff‚ running through fields‚ and taking people’s fruit. He and his best friend Alypius get caught behind and have to hide out. Then‚ they meet up with the others at the center of town they called the Hollow. Here‚ Augustine told his story he had with a lady‚ who had a husband. Then an argument occurred. Chapter 2 Augustine’s parents‚ Monica and Patricius‚ talk about sending their son away. While talking‚ they realize that Augustine has become
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Indians if he got elected as president because the white people wanted the land the Indians were living on. The Supreme Court said that the Indians can stay‚ but Jackson ignored them. He forced them to leave‚ but some didn’t‚ so that is how the trail of tears started. In document G‚ on July 11‚ 1832‚ James Mooney‚ wrote a paper in it he quoted a Georgia volunteer during the removal states‚ “I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands‚ but the Cherokee removal
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In 1838 and 1839 Andrew Jackson from Tennessee was forceful on Indian Removal‚ and from 1814 to 1824 jackson was instrumental in negotiating nine out of 11 treaties‚ which had devastated the southern tribes of their eastern lands in the west. So the Cherokee indians were tired of it so they went to the supreme court. The n in 1830 Jackson pushed a whole new piece of legislation called the “Indian Removal Act”. Jackson’s attitude towards the Native Americans came off as rude because he did not like
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The removal of American Indian tribes from lands east of the Mississippi River to what is now the state of Oklahoma is one of the tragic episodes in American history. Early treaties signed by American agents and representatives of Indian tribes guaranteed peace and the integrity of Indian territories‚ primarily to assure that the lucrative fur trade would continue without interruption. American settlers’ hunger for Indian land‚ however‚ led to violent conflict in many cases‚ and succeeding treaties
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