Segregation In President Jackson's Case For The Removal Act

The Trail of Tears was a really dark time for the Native Americans. Which is a topic many of us skip over or don’t go into much detail about. Knowing what we have done wrong in the past helps us not to make the same mistake again and guide us as a nation. The Trail of Tears was like the Holocaust to all the Native Americans. There were all these white Americans that wanted the land that the natives had owned and president Andrew Jackson decided to use the Utilitarianism model which wasn’t the best option in this case.

How Democratic Was Andrew Jackson? Jackson was born in the year 1767 to a poor family. When he was only 13 years old he was captured from the British during the revolutionary war. As he got older he found himself in the military and he was called a national hero when he fought in the battle of 1812. He served for two terms as president and Jacksonian or is followers say that he was democratic where the people are heard.

In Merriam Webster Online Dictionary, the word segregation means a “cause or force the separation of (as from the rest of society).” American society has for decades segregated African-Americans from their White counterparts. Even today, with equal rights for all, many people of color feel segregated in their daily lives. However, today’s segregation does not compare to the 1930’s America.

The dictionary definition of the word segregation is, “1: The act or process of segregating. 2: The separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by discriminatory means. 3: The separation for special treatment or observation of individuals or items from a larger group.” In other words, segregation is being mean to someone or something because of their differences.

Thomas Jefferson during his terms (1801-1809), Jefferson made on of the most controversial decision at that time, the Louisiana Purchase, he sent James Monroe in 1803 to help with the negotiation to buy New Orleans. Monroe was astonished to learn that France already offered to sell 828,00 square miles of Louisiana to the United States for $15 million (4cent an acre), by April 30 they sign a treaty to purchase the vast territory. Its legality was questionable, the constitution gave him no clear authority to acquire new territory and incorporate into the nation but it promised fulfillment of the dream of a continental nation reaching the Pacific Coast. When John Quincy Adams was adopted as Secretary of State, one of his remarkable moves was to settle long-term dispute with Spain. During the war of1812 U.S. remain on the West Florida, Adams dealt with Don Luis de Onís (Spanish minister) who ceded Florida without payment this was later on known as the “Adams –Onís Treaty”.

America is a country where tenacious individuals unified, and took control over the land that is now rightfully ours. The grueling hardships of my ancestors must not go unnoticed and disregarded- we must take control back over our country. The savages are hindering our progress in the expansion of land ownership, and therefore hindering our progress as a maturing nation. Indian habitation immobilizes the advancement of population, wealth, and power, and the Removal Act will in turn correct these derailments. Andrew Jackson, who I support fully, made several important points about the aboriginal population and the importance of relocating them.

The trail of Tears in 1838 and 1839, as a part of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy, the Cherokee was forced to give up their land that were east of the Mississippi and they were too migrate to present-day Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears began during the 1830’s. The reason the Trail of Tears took place was because of the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota. The Treaty of New Echota was an agreement that was signed under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act. The Trail of Tears was a big event that happened.

Precisely right! Then came gold - and we all know what greed can to do a civilization! The second largest gold rush in the United States (and first largest for Georgia) came with the discovery of gold in 1829, found near what is known today as Lumpkin County. This period would be referred to as the “Georgia Gold Rush.” News spread like wildfire and almost immediately white man moved in to take charge of land occupied by the Cherokee.

At the beginning of the 19th, the United States was looking for an expansion of land. The white settlers wanted the lands used by the Indians for their own economic gain. By 1830, President Jackson issued the Indian Removal Act; allowing state officials to override federal protection of Native Americans. Most Indian tribes left their homelands in Georgia during the early 1830s. However, the Cherokees remained.

In the 1950s America found itself facing the deep-rooted issue of racism, specifically toward African –Americans. Slaves were freed and people were declared equal, equality was not always prevalent. Segregation remained in much of the country. This meant people groups such as blacks had were forcefully separated from whites in schools, transportation, hospitals, and more. Particularly in the South, segregation had a strong hold on society. This began to change as supreme courts re-evaluated segregation laws, especially in schools.

They say that they’ve given them rights, but in truth they deny them their basic citizen rights(2). I will not all our American government to deny the African Americans’ right to vote. Our voting officials obstructed their right to vote because of their hate. Until we joined together, we were alone from part of society in our thinking (6). Believing that everyone should be treated equally until there is some reason to act otherwise.

After this great friendship was made between Richard Allen and Benjamin Rush, Allen considered Rush to be a “brother” and a great aid in abolishing slavery and assistant in establishing the Free Black Society of Philadelphia. Of course, there would be obvious disagreements with great reasoning of blacks having mixed signals of the help of Benjamin Rush. Richard Allen held hope and trust in Rush and Rush did not disappoint the black community, but enhanced the community. Rush didn’t allow his fellow “whites” to discourage him from doing the right thing. Allen imagined a group in Philadelphia, where basic respect and regard between the races existed and one in which the behavior of one's character, and not the color of his or her skin.

Andrew Jackson was the first president without any political background or formal education. He never received a college education but relied on his military record in order to gain popularity. He was the first person considered an outsider who was elected president. This meaning that he had no affiliation with the government before his presidency. This gave him much popularity as he appealed to the common man.

Andrew Jackson, in his “Address on Indian Removal” speech, argues that his Act, which relocates Native Americans in the South East, is ultimately beneficial for both the United States and the Indians. To slowly degrade the opinions congressmen have on the Indians and conjure sympathetic emotions, Jackson uses derogatory words which further diminish the little respect congressmen have for the Native Americans. For example, almost every paragraph contains the word “savage” which connotes incivility, barbarism, and stupidity. The use of “savage” allows Jackson to imply that America is better than the “red men” and should decide their fate in order to protect them. Furthermore, towards the end of the second paragraph Jackson uses words like “retard,”