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The Indian Trail Of Tears Close one’s eyes and imagine that the government move’s one out of his/her home because one is considered a problem. In May of 1830, President Andrew Jackson issued The Indian Removal Act also known as The Trail of Tears, to fix the Native American Problem (pg.293). The Indian Removal Act is the government’s solution to the problem. The Indian Removal Act is an important part of Native American History because of how it took place, why it took place and what happened as…

NAME PROFESSOR NAME COURSE NAME DATE The Native American Visit It is very seldom that a person thinks about the Native Americans, their culture or even where they are in today's contemporary world. However, one of the most interesting and by far life changing events was visiting the Cherokee Native American reservation located in Oklahoma. This reservation was unlike any other place ever experienced for a variety of different reasons including the level of depression and anguish that…

The March to the Sea was a terrorist attack planned by the Union General William T. Sherman. Coming from Atlanta, he led around 60,000 men on a 285-mile march to frighten Georgia. They did not harm the people who tried to stop them, yet stole the food, livestock, and burnt houses and barns to the ground of those who did. The reason for this attack was to make the “old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war” Sherman explained. General Grant’s two campaigns for 1864 were the capture…

Ray Charles was a blind musician. At the age of five Ray started to lose his sight. Shortly after Ray began his career. Rays career takes off. Ray started to lose his sight at the age of five “most likely as a result of congenital juvenile glaucoma”( ). Rays younger brother drowned that same year. Rays family was in dire poverty and had many setbacks but despite those setbacks ray's mother pushed him “toward greater independence” ( ). At the age of seven when ray was declared legally blind…

Anti Removal Paper While most White Americans supported the Cherokee removal in 1830, many White Americans disagreed with the removal. Many people viewed the Removal as unconstitutional because it infringed on the Cherokees rights as a Sovereign nation. Both the British and American governments had established, in multiple treaties, that the Cherokee were a Sovereign nation. Meaning that land could only be taken by the United States if the Cherokee nation submitted themselves or their land on…

Indian Policy Andrew Jackson’s policy of removing the Native Americans impacted the lives of many Native Americans and claimed thousands of their lives as well. To this day, this brutal policy is well known for its awful background and role it played upon civilizing the Native Americans. This policy is important since it significantly reveals how desperately they wanted more land. By pushing the Native Americans west of the Mississippi River, it showed that they would take a desperate action…

always believed that white men were superior than those of other races. What was not favorable to Jackson was that Native Americans in the South had gotten stronger and emerged to be potential threats to whites. In addition, gold was discovered in Georgia in 1829, setting of a gold rush in territory inhabited by the Cherokee. The event put pressure on Jackson to somehow get Cherokees out of the land. As Native American tribes started to interfere with white society’s interest, Jackson induced…

On May 28, 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. The law authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate with Indians for their removal to federal land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. Andrew Jackson was able to convince the American people that Indians could not coexist peacefully with them. He argued that the Indians were uncivilized and needed to be guarded from their own savage ways. As a result of his actions, thousands of Indians were forcibly ripped from their…

They were given no choice but to unwillingly give up their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated area labeled “ Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. Federal troops were sent to Georgia to forcibly remove the standing tribes, who had yet to vacate their lands. As a result, a few of the Cherokees agreed to accept western land and payment in exchange for relocation. This agreement, known as the Treaty of New Echota, was enforced in…

The citizens of Georgia were hungry for the gold which ran through Cherokee land, which made them desperate to remove the Cherokee. Southerners who wished to eliminate Native Americans from their homelands gave their support to Andrew Jackson, an army general who had led military operations against the Native Americans and a supporter of their removal. (History.com) When Jackson became president of the United States, he supported Georgia in their goal to remove the Cherokee.…