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The Indian Proval Act : The Removal Of Native Americans

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Indian Removal Act was the removal of tribes Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole nations because it was thought that Indian tribes were standing in the way of white progress, and their dream of manifest destiny. After a lot of debates in Senate on April 24, 1830, Senate vote 28 to 19 to pass the Act and later on House of Representatives voted 102 to 97 then, president, Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act because the land west of the Mississippi was unsuitable for farming and white settlers wanted to move to the Southeast where Native Americans lived which is present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska. They wanted the government to move the Native Americans to the Plains, so the whites could settle in the Southeast for farming cotton and other crops but when asked the president said it benefited the Indian tribes. Also, Indian territory had gold and rich farmland fertile for cash crops such as tobacco and cotton. His justification was its progressive and allowed the Native Americans to keep their way of life. His motivation was to make the white settlers happy and get the rich land of the Southeast. Jackson helped to negotiate nine out of eleven treaties which deprive the southern tribes of their homeland for lands in the west. At first, many tribes disagree to sign the treaties but later agreed and moved but Cherokees refused. “While some Indians complied peacefully, the Cherokee, among other tribes, resisted.”
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