Jesse Yavner President Andrew Jackson is guilty of violating laws, treaties, and Supreme Court orders in his dealings with Native Americans. Jackson used violent tactics to remove the Native Americans from his land, which is unconstitutional and violated many laws and treaties. In addition, Jackson disregarded supreme court orders, resulting in the deaths of many Native Americans. Jackson’s concept of democracy did not extend to the American Indians whatsoever; He agreed with the citizens who were impatient to take the land held by the Native Americans. In his mind, the solution to this was to pressure the Native Americans to leave their traditional homelands and resettle west of the Mississippi River. The Indian Removal Act, signed in 1830,
Andrew Jackson and Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The Indian Removal authorized the relocation of Native Americans from the lands East of the Mississippi River and to the west. The plan was finished by moving the Native Americans to what is now Oklahoma. The Indian Removal Act was meant to support the expansion of the United States without interference by moving the Natives out of the way. The Indian removal act was rationalized by the self-serving concept of manifest destiny, the belief that the expansion of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean was divinely ordained and inevitable, was used to justify the eviction of Native Americans from their native homelands.
To begin with, President Jackson knew that before he could input any of his desired policies he had to have a fresh new start in his government. He sincerely felt that Congress wasn’t representing the American people he was always concerned about. At the start of his presidency, he got rid of senior federal officeholders that had previously served under several presidents. He replaced these officials with his own Democratic supporters. This way of selecting people for government jobs came to be called the “spoils system”.
Andrew Jackson was born in March 25, 1767. He grew up poor and his father died before he was born. His home was in Waxhaws, a place where there were battles between the Native Americans and the whites. His mother eventually moved into her brother-in-law’s house and work as a maid there. Jackson was known for being short-tempered and getting in trouble many times.
Andrew Jackson was known as the hot-head president of the 19th century. His controversial attitude surrounding racial bias and equality was quite prevalent in his eight years of office. Although he was well respected among the common man, he was faced with several acts of criticism from the upper class and American Native citizens. The political cartoon, “King Andrew” portrays Jackson as a demanding and controlling figure, as he grips a staff in his right hand. He is also pictured with luxurious regal robes, to symbolize the authority that he held during his time of presidency.
When Andrew Jackson became president in 1829, the Native American condition worsened. Congress allowed the president to solve the "Indian problem" with the Indian Removal Act of 1830 (O’Neill 11). This act gave President Jackson permission to offer tribes land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their tribal lands east of the Mississippi. Politicians of the day considered this a generous offer, (O’Neil 11) but the Native American population would not surrender their homes so easily. So the federal government used some shady tactics in order to get many tribes to accept the agreement.
The root of Jackson’s hatred toward the Native Americans, which would lead to the Trail of Tears, is with the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. In this battle, he ruthlessly massacred the Creek Indians. In fact, one American said, “The river might very well be called a river of blood” (4, 28:30). Fast forward to 1830, during which Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. This gave the green light for “the President to demarcate Indian territory on public land west of the Mississippi River and negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes for their resettlement” (1).
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.
The Indian Removal Act authorized Jackson to give the Indians land west of the Mississippi in exchange for their land in the states, but could not force them to leave. He violated and broke commitments that he even negotiated with them. He tried to bribe the Indians and even threatened some of them. Alfred Cave organizes his article thematically and is trying to prove
The Indian removal act of 1830 provided funding for the uprooting of the five civilized tribes.
The Indian Removal Act is going to be controversial bill that is going to help President Andrew Jackson complete two things which was pay the national debt of with Indian Land Sales and most importantly move the Native American out of East, especially Georgia, to open new land for eager white settlers. In a letter from Alfred Balch to Andrew Jackson on January 8, 1830, Alfred said that about the possibility of the removal act, “The removal of the Indians would be an act of seeming violence. But it will prove in the end an act of enlarged philanthropy.” He went on to write, “…cannot exist in a state of Independence, in the vicinity of the white man.”
The Indian Removal Act was passed during Andrew Jackson’s presidency on May 28, 1830. This authorized the president to grant land that was west of the Mississippi River to Indians that agreed to give up their homeland. They believed that the land could be more profitably farmed by non-Indians.
Under influence of president Andrew Jackson, the congress was urged in 1830 to pass the Indian Removal Act, with the goal of relocated many Native Americans in the East territory, the west of Mississippi river. The Trail of tears was made for the interest of the minorities. Indeed, if president Jackson wished to relocate the Native Americans, it was because he wanted to take advantage of the gold he found on their land. Then, even though the Cherokee won their case in front the supreme court, the president and congress pushed them out(Darrenkamp).
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.
Andrew Jackson’s sentiment towards the Native Americans was certainly not a kind one. Manifest destiny was a popular belief among Americans, including Jackson, and he would go to the extent of forcing Native Americans out of their homes to reach their “ordained goal”. He believed in the expansion of southern slavery which is why he pushed for removing the Indians west of the Mississippi, which makes it the more disgraceful. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 said that it will allow American government to offer in-state territories to the Indian’s for their western land. This wasn’t the case when the U.S. went in and drove the Indians out by force.
However, in 1830, the Indian removal act of 1830 was signed by Andrew Jackson and suddenly everything changed. “The Indian Removal Act in 1830 forced the relocation of more than 60,000 Native Americans to clear