The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a heated topic in Congress. Defend the passage or rejection of the Act with reference to the moral‚ political‚ constitutional and practical concerns of a congressman. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was at the time‚ thought to be justified and acceptable. There were two groups‚ the people who wanted the Indian’s gone‚ and the people who believed they should be allowed to stay. I believe forcing the Indians out of their territory was immoral‚ had no effect on
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generalization that‚ "The decision of the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s was more a reformulation of the national policy that had been in effect since the 1790s than a change in that policy‚" is valid. Every since the American people arrived at the New World they have continually driven the Native Americans out of their native lands. Many people wanted to contribute to this removal of the Cherokees and their society. Knox proposed
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question of whether or not Native Americans residing in the southern states and specifically the Cherokee in Georgia should be removed was hotly debated until the ratification of the Removal Act in 1830. Andrew Jackson‚ the man representing the federal government as the President of the United States‚ actively pursued the Removal Act despite his previous opinion of Natives being so savage it were better to have them driven to extinction. (Wallace‚ 54) Later‚ he ruled that all Natives had been conquered
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Introduction Since the colonization of America‚ there have been tensions and confrontations between white settlers and Native Americans over territory and civilization. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830‚ allowing him to communicate with Native American tribal leaders in order to negotiate their voluntary relocation to Federal reservations west of the Mississippi River. When several tribes refused to relocate‚ the conflict turned violent and was conducted through the
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Who should move? The Cherokee or Americans? The Indian Removal Act was created by the former President Andrew Jackson in 1830. The Americans wanted to settle land in Georgia‚ but most of the Cherokee tribes refused. The Indian Removal act of 1830 was not justified and the Cherokees should not move because they fought for the U.S.‚ Cherokees were cheated in trade by the U.S.‚ and the supreme court ruled in favor for the Cherokees. The Cherokees should not move because they fought for the United States
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Critical Thinking Essay For thousands of years‚ Indians freely inhabited American land with peace and harmony. Then‚ all of that drastically changed when the white settlers began encroaching on their territory. Only the Five Civilized Tribes by the 1830 ’s proved to be the most suitable in this rapidly changing environment‚ but just when they started adopting the whites ’ ways of life‚ they were forced out of their land. Years have passed and Indians still only hold small pieces of territory. Although
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in forcing the Indian tribes to leave their homeland and move to the Oklahoma territory. I believe the Tribes were taken advantage of and abused by the states whenever possible. In 1971 the Cherokee tribe was in the process of making treaties with United States. The state of Georgia recognized the Cherokee tribe as a nation allowing them to make their own laws and follow their native customs. In the late 1700’s their land started to be invaded by the white man. The Cherokee Indians began to move
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The United States government used many different techniques to remove Indians from Western lands so they could use it for their own selfish needs. Some of these methods were clearly harmful‚ while others were written to seem reasonable and helpful. Nomadic Indians were finding it hard to live due to declining bison herds and deteriorating grasslands. This situation was made worse by thousands of pioneers pouring into the west because of the new discovery of silver and gold in the Rocky Mountains
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America. It stirred many questions. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was at the time‚ thought to be justified and acceptable. There were two groups‚ the people who wanted the Indian’s gone‚ and the people who believed they should be allowed to stay. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 that forced the Indians out of their territory was immoral‚ had no effect on the state of Georgia‚ and it increased conflict between the Native American tribes. When the Indians were being removed from their territory
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Rogers HIST 2003 “Abuse of Power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830”‚ Alfred A. Cave This article concentrates on the seventh president of the United States of America‚ Andrew Jackson‚ and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans by forcing relocation to west of the Mississippi River. The removal of the Native Americans was to be voluntary‚ but it was nothing of the sort. In 1829‚ President Jackson stated to Congress about the Indian removal that‚ “This emigration should be voluntary
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