Democratic Party Research Paper

Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” (page # and where it is from) This quote expresses the way people unconsciously tend to be when researching for the truth about political parties. Instead of looking for the actual truth, certain websites push their ideas onto people intentionally leaving out the factual evidence. Half the time people go into searching for information blindly only looking for what they want to see, letting their illusions get the best of them. There is a lot of information out on the internet covering the Democratic party, although some facts are included they are more often than not clouded with bias statements and inaccurate propaganda. The following essay will directly inform readers about the change in the Democratic party within the years and will express the attitudes shown by leaders of the party in regards to minorities during the jacksonian era, the civil war, and the civil rights movement, without including any misconstrue information.
The democrat leaders of the 1820s were Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun who had the followings of the northern working class, churches, and the minority who happened to be immigrants. The removal act was implemented in 1838 and 1839 by Andrew Jackson. After the Supreme Court ruling in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia(1832), states had no authority over tribes, which later led to the trail of tears in 1938. The trail of tears forced the Cherokee Nation to give up all land east of the Mississippi River and migrate on to present day Oklahoma. The journey caused starvation and many other effects that killed over 4,000 people. (Explain without opinion how the democrats felt about the