Native American Pros And Cons

Eventually, the Armed force stifled the Indians and constrained onto reservations, where they were permitted to administer themselves and keep up some of their conventions and culture. However, as white Americans pushed ever westbound, they clashed with Native Americans on their tribal grounds. A number of these white pioneers saw the proceeded with routine with regards to local customs as brutal and heinous. They trusted that union into standard white American culture was the main satisfactory destiny for Native Americans. This conviction was regularly framed in religious terms; many white Christians contended that lone by surrendering their profound customs and tolerating Christian authoritative opinion could the Indians be "spared" from the flames of hellfire.

Andrew Jackson is truly not worthy of being on the $20 bill. He was a common man up until his presidency. He wanted to give what he could to common man. He fought for his presidency but once he was elected it almost seemed like he gave up. What president should be put on a dollar bill if their entirety of their presidency was an absolute mess just left for the next president to handle.

The Second Seminole War (1835-1842) was the result of the United States government attempting to force the Seminoles to leave Florida. The Seminoles refused to leave their land and war then broke out. At the end of the war, the U.S. had sent most of the Seminoles to reservations in the west. The 2nd Seminole War is regarded as the most expensive Indian conflict the U.S. had. The Third Seminole War (1855–1858) resulted from renewed efforts to track down the remaining Seminoles in Florida.

“Jackson argued that the United States policy of attempting to assimilate the tribes into white society had failed and the Native Americans’ way of life would eventually be destroyed.” (thehermitage.com) Thousands of Native Americans died due to his decisions; he seemed to show his total disregard for their culture and rights. This displays his autocratic tendencies, but his crisis involving South Carolina does as well. When the Tariff of 1832 began to harm South Carolina but aid the North, our state threatened to leave the union in order to protect our economy. However, Jackson was going to use force to make us follow his laws; he wasn 't willing to bend at all.

President Jackson earned credit for preserving the Union. This did not cause controversy, it was what happened next that lead to such a controversial problem in Jackson’s presidency. In contrast to his strong stand against South Carolina, Andrew Jackson took no action after Georgia had claimed millions of acres of land that had been guaranteed to the Cherokee Indians. Jackson disregarded that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled Georgia had no authority over Native American tribal lands. Jackson did not allow South Carolina to do as they please with federal tariffs, however, Georgia was able to do whatever they wanted when it came to taking over the Cherokee Indian’s land.

The act for Indian Removal was huge for Jackson because he saw it as taking over their land. In Daniel Feller’s article, he states “There is no doubt that removing the American Indians, was centrally important to Jackson.” (CITING?) This shows Jackson’s motivation to push the Indians out of their own land to increase Americans territory was huge.

During the war, Jackson defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson was admired for many battles and many treaties he fought or negotiated. One history did not and can not forget, The Indian Removal Act, the removing of Native Americans from their lands for expansion into the territories leaving behind the historical Trail of Tears. The trail was caused by death and displacement of thousands of Natives of different tribes forced together and moved. Losing family, friends, homelands everything because Jackson believed that growing the United States in geographical region outweighed the loss of Native lives.

Andrew Jackson is known for being a major advocate for the superfluous removal of the Native American tribes. Jackson was being oblivious when he decided that he should ignore the treaties signed with the natives. The president was exhibiting selfishness and naïveté by confiscating the lands of the natives, to which they rightfully owned. Jackson had forced the “five civilized tribes,” which were natives who had adopted their neighbor’s ideas. These tribes were forced to make a long and perilous journey to the west of the Mississippi River.

Ever since the Constitution was written, there have been many interpretations of the phrase “all men are created equal”. Does that include every human, or just the white man? The seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, and his party, the Jacksonian Democrats, proclaimed themselves to be defenders of the Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. But during the Jacksonian Era, only white males could vote. Additionally, the Jacksonians violated the basic rights of Native Americans by kicking them off of their own land.

The Indian Removal Act was the movement of about 16,543 Native Americans across the nation’s land to create more farming space for crops necessary for the survival of the american people. Andrew Jackson had moved tribes such as the Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw and Cherokee, also known as the five civilized tribes, west of the Mississippi River. Jackson’s rebuttal for the removal of the Natives consisted of telling the people that moving the Indians would separate them from the white settlements, free them from the power of the states, and would stop their extinction. Unfortunately, Jackson had created a path of death for the remaining Indians that would not give up their land willingly. He then used armies of men to push out the leftover tribes.

The government tried to force assimilation on Native Americans as well as an attempt to “kill the indian, save the man.” These ideas and policies are similar to those popular during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Jackson developed a sense of ‘paternalism’ towards indians and believed he was saving them by forcing them to live out west of the Mississippi river away from white culture. The difference was that Jackson did not believe in assimilation of indians into white culture, he believed they should be kept separate. With the help of the Federal government removing indians from land west of the Mississippi, Americans were

Nicholas Lemann begins his book “Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War” with the 1873 Colfax, Louisiana massacre where a White League militia comprised of former Confederate soldiers killed black Republican voters. The Colfax massacre was perhaps the bloodiest event of Reconstruction. Lemann views this event as a startup of what would happen later in Mississippi if Federal troops did not defend black voters. Lemann blames Ulysses S. Grant’s Secretary of War, William W. Belknap, for not stopping the White Line activity in Louisiana and Mississippi. Grant had worked hard to stop the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1870s with Congress passing legislation and Federal troops putting down Klan activity.

The Indian Removal Act The Indian Removal Act was signed as a law by President Andrew Jackson in 1830. This law was to remove and settle the Native Americans from East of the Mississippi River to the West, known as Indian Territory. This law also prohibited white people to settle in the nation. Thousands of Indians made attempts which were not violent. Many Indians refused to leave from their lands because they worked for them really hard to just be removed like that.

To be a Cherokee in the 1820s it meant constant pressure and encroachment from settlers and farmer as well as rising tension and pressure from the state of Georgia. To the Cherokee Chief John Ross the encroachment threated his people and their lands. The collected letters and statements of Chief John Ross showed glimpses of a people devastated by the Western world discovering America. Ross described what him and his ancestors lay witness to since the arrival of the Europeans, in 1824 Ross sends a letter to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War under President Monroe. “By tracing the situation of our Ancestors for two Hundred year back, we see nothing desirable, but much to deplore – the happiness which the Indians once enjoyed…was now poisoned

But the rest of the tribe were determined and refused to move. Soon after Andrew Jackson became the president of the United States, he pushed through Congress an Indian Removal Act. After the pass of the Indian Removal Act in 1830, the