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Andrew Jackson's Attitude Towards Native Americans Between 1838 And 1839
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 the Indians and he wanted them gone. By 1837, Jackson’s administration had removed over 46,000 Native American people from their land east of the Mississippi River, Most of the Indian Territories had been relocated west. In 1838 as a part of Andrew

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