The act was passed as was very quickly put into practice. S. L. Tyler describes this processes,
The act was passed as was very quickly put into practice. S. L. Tyler describes this processes,
During Indian removals, many Native tribes were attempting to find loopholes in treaties to be able to stay on their native lands. One of the loopholes included gaining permission to stay from the English government. Most of the people who were successful at gaining the exemption were well respected by the English or they claimed they would become civilized Americans. The second option included hiding out and hoping not to be found by the soldiers. Lastly, the Natives could have become members of a community that was exempted from removal.…
In the Indian Removal the Indians were pushed out of their territory and pushed to new territory. The policy made the Indians live longer making them rich and wealthy with new and extensive territory. The Indian Removal act did its purpose and didn’t end with annihilation from war. The United States benefited the Indians, “The United States will play to send the natives to a land where they may live longer and possibly survive as a people”(Doc A). The act was a benefit to both sides.…
The Union would have been at a disadvantage if Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) joined them. Texas to the south and west, Arkansas to the east were Confederate. Kansas to the north was part of the Union, but very few people settled there. It provided very little, if any, protection for the Indian tribes.…
Although the act was not popular with the Native Americans it did fulfill the desire to control Native Americans and to integrate them into American society. The Dawes Act failed in creating independent Native American farmers because most of the land was too small for good agriculture and even when the land was good, farming requires money to buy equipment, seeds and cattle which Native Americans did not have access to. Also, Native Americans viewed farming as very disrespectful do to their views of the earth and how it should be…
The cause of the act was that the government needed their land to improve their economy and industrial business. 2 This act allowed the president to grant Indian tribes unsettled western land in exchange for their territories within…
Sacred land was illegally and unconstitutionally being taken from the Cherokee. Lastly, the government had basically tricked the Indians into giving away their land, and made promises they didn’t keep. The first reason why the Indian Removal Act was not justified was because innocent Indians were forced to go on this treacherous journey while not getting enough food, water, and shelter. They started migrating towards present day Oklahoma during the winter of 1838.…
So in the end, overall it was beneficial for being freed. 2. I don’t believe treating American Indians it that way could ever be justified. The fact that we “stole” there property, saying we bought the land by giving them next to nothing and no option to decline. For instance, the Sioux lost all there hunting land and wouldn’t be given their food from the ware house forcing them to sign treaties or starve.…
Background Information and Thesis When America was still in its early years, Indians had a socioeconomic status less than that of a black person -- that is unless they became assimilated tax payers. The U.S. government toyed with them like puppets for years as America expanded west, forcibly securing them in federally controlled reservations under the guise of protecting them. By the mid 1800’s, all Native American tribes resided west of the Mississippi River on reservations due to the Indian Removal Act signed in 1830. Relationships between Indians and the government had been strained at best for decades. The government didn’t view Indians as human, which, in turn, made them think they could simply relocate the tribes whenever they pleased…
The Indian Removal Act, which was passed by Congress in 1830, completely changed the path for the future in multiple aspects. In determining what impact this event still has on our country today, one must start by analyzing the relationships between Native Americans, the United States government, and the common white settler. Additionally, one must analyze how the removal of these tribes affected not only them, but the white settlers. Socially, Native Americans were viewed as no more than objects in the way of what the Americans viewed as rightfully theirs.…
The hidden motivation of this program is to remove the Indians. The federal government utilize it to promote relocation of Native Americans, to accelerate the westward expansion and to ensure the Indians’ friendly attitude towards the Americans.…
It forced the Native Indians to surrender millions of acres of land and to move to west. Throughout the removal many Indians suffered through sickness and death. The Indian Removal Act not only removed the Indians from their rightful lands forcefully but also is responsible for over 4000 deaths of the Native Americans, that today is known as the ‘Trail of Tears’. Bibliography Calloway, Colin G. Kill the Indian and Save the Man 1870s-1920s. (In Bedford/St. Martin’s (Ed.), First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History, 4th ed., 2012) 412-483.…
The indian removal act of 1830 was justified and the cherokees should've moved because they had done horrible things to people, better land, and freedom. The first reason, the cherokees should’ve moved is because they have done horrible…
Things that lead up to the Indian removal act being passed was the greed of white settlers who kept moving onto Indian lands. They believed the Indians were in their way and pressured the federal government for Indian land. All five tribes showed resistance, but the Cherokee tried doing it the peaceful way. Their leader John Ross took their case to the Supreme Court. Chief John Marshall appealed to the Cherokee in March of 1832 and said “The law of the Georgians can have no force”.…
The natives land was constantly being settled on, their livestock stolen, even their villages burned to the ground by the European American Settlers. By signing with the Indian Removal Act, the indigenous peoples were given an opportunity to get away from the violence and discrimination of the settlers. The Indian Removal Act gave the Native Americans a means of survival, thus benefitting the Native Americans and saving many lives that may have been lost on both the European American and the Native American sides had the Native Americans remained on their homeland. The Native American Tribes were offered land west of the Mississippi River that they would have total sovereignty over. President Andrew Jackson was given the legal right by the Indian Removal Policy to grant the land west of the Mississippi River to the Native Americans for them alone to govern over to the tribes that did agree to give up their ancestral homelands. Most of the European American population believed that America would never expand beyond the Mississippi River, so the Native American Tribes would be safe from the settlers heading west to create their homes on the new…
This law triggered the mass genocide of Indians in the United States. The Indian Removal Act was unjustifiable due to the natives creation of a civilized…