The Genres Of Tears: The Indian Removal Of Native Americans

In the 1830’s the trails of tears was an act of removal of Native Americans out of their home lands. White Americans who also occupied the same land as Indians resented Native Americans. Most whites saw them as aliens and uncivilized people. Therefore, President Washington tried to solve the “Indian problem’ by making them as much as the whites. They encourage them to convert to Christianity and learn to speak and read English. Five different tribes embraced their customs and became known as the “Five civilized tribes”. These included Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek and Cherokee.
Many lands the Native Americans preserved were valuable to the whites. Many white settlers saw a purpose for the land Indians had and would do anything to get it. They wanted to expend growing cotton and slavery. White settlers treated their fellow Native American with the worst treatment by stealing and burning homes and towns and even raping. Several states passed laws limiting Native American rights. Many southern states such as Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee all had one goal and that was to drive the Indians out of south and into further west. This action was the beginning of the Indian removal signed by President Andrew Jackson.
Tis act gave the right to negotiate with southerner nations to affect their removal to the west. The treaty was supposed to be voluntarily and peacefully but, president Jackson sought otherwise. These Native Americans were had lived on these lands for years and generations. The land had been cultivated by their ancestors. The trail of tears begun in 1831 around winter under the invasion of U.S. Army. The first group of people who was attack first was the Choctaw they were beaten marched in chains without food and any moral support. Thousands of innocent people died especially the elderly many beaten and was taken from the place they called