In 1830, the US had recently purchased land that had originally belonged to the Native Americans. The Native Americans were not happy about having to give up their land, and settlers were coming in day and night and taking over what was before their territory. There were always conflicts between the two nations, even at one point coming to terms of a battle. Over time, the US had successfully claimed all of the land except for a part of Georgia. To claim this part of Georgia, President Andrew Jackson issued the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act forced almost all of the Indians to relocate to Oklahoma on a 1,000-mile trek by foot. Many of their people died of starvation, exposure, and illness. These multiple sources to be cited help …show more content…
The video states, “Think about the fact that of the 14,000 Cherokee people who were on the Trail of Tears, heading from the Southeast to Oklahoma, that 2 to 4,000 of those people died along the way...I know Cherokee people who don’t like $20 bills just because they see President Jackson on them...But the removal and the indifference of the public created a dark precedent that was doomed to be repeated...After Pearl Harbor, there was very little outcry against the decision to relocate the Japanese and Japanese-Americans, and Roosevelt could look at previous presidents who had taken similar actions.”. The speakers mentioned how many people died, and that the relocation of the Japanese-Americans after the Pearl Harbor bombing didn’t spark too much outcry from the public. In fact, Roosevelt felt absolutely no shame, because he saw that Jackson had taken similar actions in the past. Also, the speaker mentioned that he knows some Cherokee people who don’t like $20 bills just because they have Andrew Jackson’s picture on it. This just goes to show how the Indian Removal Act negatively impacted people’s actions and views of certain things from that point
Is america ours? Well, let's start at the beginning. After the war of 1812 georgians wanted to take the cherokee and other indian tribes land. So they came up with the indian removal act of 1812 it is promising the cherokee land and 5 million dollars if they move west. But, the cherokee and all the other indian tribes did not want to move because we come over and cheat them kill them and steal their land then after the war of 1812 we expect them to just move over to the west peacefully using the indian removal act.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was not justified, not everyone agreed and signed the treaty, of the Native Americans who did decided to move, many ended up dying, and in wars later on they sided with the Americans and fought with them. First of all, not everyone agreed and signed the treaty. The Cherokee and many other Native Americans were treated unfairly. They were also often cheated out of deals.
The Indian Removal act of 1830 wasn’t acceptable, causing many conflicts which was a debate where the cherokee’s was allowed to stay in Georgia or not be able to stay because the Americans wanted to expand, but the indians owned the land first, the americans also cheated the indians in trades and broken treaties, finally barely any of the cherokees aided the treaty to move into the new land. So, the Indians should stay. The indians should stay because they owned the
The Indian Removal Act was an act that forcibly removed Indians from their land and made them relocate. In result of doing this, the new settlers would have somewhere to live; West of the Mississippi. Not only did the Cherokee have to move to a new Indian territory, but they also had to move their capitol. The sighting of gold in this land made it even worse for the Cherokee; the white men pushed the issue even harder. Some of the Indians left willingly, while others were forced to leave, and didn’t even have time to collect their belongings.
Many Americans believed that the Indian Removal Act would be a series of treaty making with the Native Americans, to form alliances and give them the land that the Americans didn’t believe the US would ever extend to, and the original Supreme Court ruling in 1831 also invalidated Cherokee sovereignty over their land. However, the Indian Removal Act quickly became an excuse for Jackson’s tantrum over the Supreme Court’s second ruling in 1832, which confirmed Cherokee sovereignty in 1832. Though the US believed that they had owned the land, the Cherokee had been there for much longer and held the rights to the land. The US also did not have the legal right to the land though they had the treaty because the treaty had been signed by renegade Cherokee who believed in relocation, not by the actual government of the Cherokee Nation. Chief John Ross argued that it had been made illegally, but it was ratified by a single vote and signed by Jackson.
How would you feel if you were told that you have to move off of your own land to somewhere else just for the pleasure of other people? The Indian Removal Act will not only be cruel and harsh, but it will be extremely wrong on our part. What side do you stand on? Are you in favor of, or against it? You surely, will not only disagree with this act, but will be completely against it.
The government of early America was not kind to people of any color besides white. The president at the time, Andrew Jackson, had spent many years in the army campaigning, taking Native American land and passing it on to white farmers. In the year 1830 he signed for the Indian Removal Act. This allowed the government to exchange Native American land east of the Mississippi for land in the west called "The Indian Colonization Zone. "
The Indian Removal Act was signed in 1830 by President Andrew Jackson to remove the Cherokee Indians from their homes and force them to settle west of the Mississippi River. The act was passed in hopes to gain agrarian land that would replenish the cotton industry which had plummeted after the Panic of 1819. Andrew Jackson believed that effectively forcing the Cherokees to become more civilized and to christianize them would be beneficial to them. Therefore, he thought the journey westward was necessary. In late 1838, the Cherokees were removed from their homes and forced into a brutal journey westward in the bitter cold.
This shows that United States believes that they are the supreme ruler, and they can do whatever they want to do without the consent of others. With no emotions from the United States, they decided to force the relocation of the Cherokee with armed
Between 1816 and 1840, Indian tribes signed more than 40 treaties to secure their lands. In 1829, President Jackson relocated the eastern Indians and in 1830 the Indian Removal Act forced the Indians to move west of Mississippi. Between 1830 and 1850, 100,000 Indians were were living between Michigan, Florida, and Louisiana. Many Indians was abused during the traveling to the west by the U.S. Army. The Cherokees traded with the European settlers that arrived here.
The United States wanted to remove Native Americans from the Southeast. The Indian Removal Act began 1830. It allowed southern states to purchase land that the Natives had settled on. They planned to divide land west of the Mississippi for the Native Americans to move to (History.com, 2009).
The conflict between the Americans and the Natives for the Native’s lands caused the government to created an Act to move the Natives. This compromise was the Indian Removal Act, “An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories and for their removals west of the river Mississippi” (United). The Act was passed on May 30, 1830 (Removal), and moved the Natives’ across the country from Georgia to Oklahoma (adamelhamouden). The Removal Act was for all Indians, but there were many other treaties that the government used to move the Natives. The Cherokees used the Treaty of New Echota.
In 1830, Andrew Jackson signed what was known as the “Removal Act”. This Removal act authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. Few tribe move peacefully. If an Indian tribe would not go willingly, the U.S. army would come and force them. Even then some tribe would still resist and to the sad end they were crushed.
On July 17, 1830, the Cherokee nation published an appeal to all of the American people. United States government paid little thought to the Native Americans’ previous letters of their concerns. It came to the point where they turned to the everyday people to help them. They were desperate. Their withdrawal of their homeland was being caused by Andrew Jackson signing the Indian Removal Act into law on May 28, 1830.
The Indian Removal Act and the forced relocation of the Cherokee Nation was a key step in the spread of slavery and therefore played an important role in the development of the nation and the course of the Civil War. The social aspect of this act had a lasting impact on the U.S. for its role in territorial expansion, the spread of slavery, and the belief in manifest destiny. This served as a justification for the government and individual settlers' actions leading to the displacement and oppression of indigenous peoples.