Dbq Indian Removal

People move to places where they know is strong and independent, with strong and leading rulers. In 1806, Thomas Jefferson wanted to expand west to have more land and more people move there and start farming and making new products, etc… when Thomas Jefferson wanted a land, but some people were living there, so he said that Americans would move there, and as for the original residents, they will be independent, and uncivilized (Document 2). Later in 1829, Indian Removal Act happened, Andrew Jackson wanted the land so he offered to the Indians who lived there at the time, to take their land, and give them another piece of land where they can all move and live there, because he wanted to take the more fertile and better land (Documents 5). This

The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Jackson in 1830. President Jackson decided to have the Indians moved to lands west of the Mississippi River. Believing this offered the best hope to sanctuary peace and protect the Indians from being dispersed and demolished. This removal was intended to be voluntary but groups of Indians were strongly pressured to go. These migrations often turned into forced marches during which led to many perishing.

The Federal government forced the Indians tribes from their native lands and had to live on reservations. According to history in the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson moved five civilized tribes, the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and the Seminole tribes from their lands. Several surrender for peace because of unfavorable conditions they faced along the way such as starvation, diseases and weather. On the other hand, the Crow allied with the United States, other tribes stayed and fought for the land. A case in point, the Nez tribe tried fleeing to Canada never succeed. The Cherokees suffered hunger, exhaustion and diseases along their way, and that path known as “Trail of Tears.” Cherokees at the end relocated in present Oklahoma. For

When Americans expanded their country west, they interfered with many American Indian Tribes. In a letter he wrote to congress, he explained “This emigration should be voluntary… (but) if they remain within the limits of the states they must be subject to their laws” (Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress December 7, 1829). Andrew Jackson offered to let the American Indians stay if they followed their laws. But in 1831, Jackson forced the Native Americans out of their homelands starting the Indian Removal. According to a reprinted in Niles Weekly Register, the Cherokee’s said “We wish to remain on the land of our fathers. We have a perfect and original right to remain without interruption or molestation”. Jackson lied to the American Indians about allowing them to stay. Jackson did not act democratically because he did not allow the American Indians to stay and forced them to move west. Jackson was fair to his supporters, but not to

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.

The Americans expansion past the Mississippi Valley and the Appalachian Mountains resulted in the removal of Indians. From previous paragraphs, in 1763 Americans couldn’t settle land beyond a certain line at the Appalachian Mountains. However, after defeating England, the Americans assumed that the Indian land was theirs, only to discover that “their land” was inhabited. The Indians who were not needed, but rather an obstacle was dealt with by extreme force, thus clearing the land for whites. This land was cleared for cotton in the South and grain in the North, for expansion, immigration, canals, railroads, new cities, and the building of a huge continental empire clear across to the Pacific Ocean. President Jackson’s 1814 treaty granted Indians

The removal of the Creek Indians in the Indian Removal Act helped the development of the United States but in a cruel and harsh way. Without the Indian Removal Act, most of the land that is America today would be inhabited by indians. Although we were mostly at peace with the Creeks and had trading and housing arrangements, after the Indian Removal act was created, it all went downhill. There were wars, conflicts, and bribes for land and that just made the Creeks fall apart .

During the ninetieth century the United States began a policy to remove Indians in the lands east of the Mississippi. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 Indians were forced to give up their lands east of the Mississippi and forced to move west of the Mississippi. Indian removal did not actually begin there. Prior to the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the United States used treaties and other means to remove Indians from lands that white settlers wanted or moved into. Aside from treaties the United States waged wars on Indians that refused to leave their lands peacefully.

The Indian Removal Act, inspired by Andrew Jackson; the 7th president of the US and the enhanced ambition for American settlers to find more land in the southwestern regions of North America. The Indian Removal Act enabled Jackson the power of negotiating removal treaties with Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. Among these tribes were: Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaws and Seminoles. Very few authenticated traits were signed. The Choctaws were the only tribe to agree without any issues. All other attempts resulted in War and blood shed for both white settlers and Indians. The conflict with the U.S. and Indians lasted up until 1837. In 1838 & 1839 Jackson forced the relocation of the remaining Cherokee Indians;

The law permitted the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi River to Native Americans in exchange for the lands they occupied. The United States government forcibly took lands owned by Native Americans and expelled them into territory outside of its borders. During the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation of the Cherokee tribe, approximately 4,000 died. Law and policy in relation to Native Americans rendered this period tumultuous, cruel, and void of justice.

Because of the desire for land and the discovery of gold in Georgia, there was a push in doing what was necessary to remove Indians from their land (Native History Association). This was the time of Manifest Destiny, where white moved all over the country in hopes to spread their culture and customs. This involved them moving onto Indian land (Peppas 2013, 14). Even though gold was found on Cherokee land, the Cherokee could not touch it because the government did not want the Cherokee to have access to the gold. People from all over came to their land to mine the gold (Peppas 2013, 18).

In the case of the Cherokee only a small portion of the tribe agreed to leave their land. The majority remained and attempted to use protests and legal means to remain. In the end the U.S. Army was used to confine and forcibly move the tribe. This action lead to the death of one in four of the Cherokee as they marched on what would become called the Trail of Tears (Foner, 2011, p. 400).

During the late 1820s, America began to push for the removal of Indians living in the east. Newly elected president, Andrew Jackson, was given the opportunity to sate this desire, while also securing the popular favor. His address to congress on December 8, 1829, was made in an effort to persuade them allow this ‘removal’. Although the primary goal was to remove ‘troublesome’ tribes, it is implied that Jackson only wanted to remove those who weren’t slave-owning and/or cotton producing Indians who traded with the US. Jackson utilized a sense of American superiority, sympathetic appeals, and the desire to preserve the United States to justify his argument to congress.

The Indian removal policy of the US government got signed to law on May 28,1830 which gave the president the right to grant unsettled lands west of Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing borders. “A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.” Approximately 15,000 Cherokees had opposed the treaty because they wanted to keep their nation under their control not the U.S. government. The Cherokee Indians were moved west from the United States government during the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839. The leaders of the Cherokee nation had wrote a letter to congress to protest the treaty of Echota. Some of the Cherokee Indians had approved the treaty and signed their land into the U.S. government but majority

The day the colonists first set foot on American soil marked the beginning of an arduous struggle for Native Americans. When the colonists first arrived, there were ten million Native Americans; over the next three centuries, over 90% of the entire population was wiped out due to the white man. The removal of Native Americans marks a humiliating period of United States history. President Andrew Jackson attempted to consolidate the Native Americans when he told them “‘circumstances render it impossible that [they could] flourish in the midst of a civilized community. [They] have but one remedy within [their] reach, and that is to remove to the west. And the sooner [they] do this, the sooner [they] will commence your career of improvement and prosperity.’” In contrast to Jackson’s justification for removal, historians such as Charles Hudson describe removal as a “‘gentle, almost antiseptic word for one of the harshest, most crudely opportunistic acts in American history.’” A number of American people were opposed to removal, the most notorious of which included newspaper editor Noh-Noh-He-Tsu-Nageh. Author Walter T. Durham seeks to illustrate the abdominal nature of Cherokee Removal in his article "Noh-Noh-He-Tsu-Nageh and the Cherokee Removal” through Noh-Noh-He-Tsu’s personal accounts and through the flaws of the various treaties signed with the Native Americans.