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    Jackson and The Native Indians Andrew Jackson, The United States seventh president, was possibly one of the worst human beings to be president and treated the Native Indians horribly. He, was a bully and used his position to get acts and petitions like the Indian Removal Act passed, to help push Native Indians around so he could get his own way. The Indian Removal Act in and of itself seemingly doesn’t contain that much power, however it was all the power Jackson needed. The circumstances of Jackson’s

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    speech, he makes a letter to President Franklin Pierce and any other Americans that play any parts in Parliament. The audience that the chief is reaching out to may have Manifest Destiny, belief that God approves of the U.S, as well as the belief that Indians are savages. Chief Seattle explains, however, that the Americans are the true savages because they can not hear the sound of nature in addition to having “no place to hear the leaves of springs or the rustle of the insect’s wings” (Seattle). Chief

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    Beginning in 1789 with George Washington, the Indians living next to the American people forced federal Indian policies to be created, which ranged from coexistence to removal. These policies under the seven different presidents coincided in ways regarding expansion and removal, but also changed in ways regarding American interaction, civilization, and removal tactics of the Indians. Despite the consistent similarities in federal Indian policies during the years between the Washington and Jackson

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    Politics, race, and medicine were all important factors during the Indian Removal of 1830, as they had convinced the people of the United States that removing the Natives from their land was the right step for the nation. Presidents Jefferson and Jackson main goals were to either force the Natives to migrate further away or to force them to assimilate to western culture. Politics has always and will always play a large role in how the United States interacts with other cultures. Jefferson through

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    Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, came to power with one important promise to the American people: the removal of Indian tribes “to make room for the whites”. This Indian Removal, conducted in the 1830s, affected all Indian tribes, and they responded in various ways. Some were ready to move to the west and follow orders, tired of resisting the whites and knowing that there was no other way out. However, several tribes stood on the land of their ancestors and fought to remain

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    he passed the Indian Removal act of 1830, he did this so that Americans could expand West. According to Document F(Andrew Jackson's Annual Message to Congress,1830), it says "...Will unite in attempting to open the eyes of those children of the forest to their true condition, and by a speedy removal to relieve them from all the evils, real or imaginary, present or prospective, with which they may be supposed to be threatened". That shows how Western expansion started and why Indians were kicked out

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    were treated, and the Americans don’t and shouldn’t have the right to kick them of land that wasn’t theirs. In the past before this act the indians had helped the Americans achieve and conquer different things. Such as the Louisiana Purchase the indians had been there during the act for guidance and somewhat wisdom of what’ll be in there journey. The indian removal act wasn’t justified because the Cherokee had arrived before the georgians had, Americans were disrespectful towards the Cherokee, and had

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    unquestionably negative actions, such as the Indian Removal Act, were done at the time not only in the interest of the citizens of the united states , but in regard (however misguided) to the survival of the Indian nations. It is this

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    the forced removal of Native Americans from their lands, carelessness and failure by the American government to protect, and multiple slaughters carried out by the American military on the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw, Sac and Fox, and the Seminole tribes. Closely related is “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee,” written by Dee Brown, his writings from chapter thirteen focus on the Nez Perces tribe that resided in Oregon, and their attempt at a journey in Canada, and other western Indian tribes’ affairs

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    TWhich group would have supported this depiction of Jackson? As a result of his unfaltering decision to prevent economic nationalism, most notably seen through his war against the Bank of United States, Andrew Jackson drew a heavy amount of opposition from those in favor of a nationalized economy, who viewed him as a tyrannical leader frequently making unilateral decisions based on his personal grudges. Jackson constantly opposed the concentration of power in regards to the economy. This could be

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