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What Are Andrew Jackson's Ideals

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We have read and completed packet pages and work sheets about the whole Andrew Jackson unit. I have taken away from many class periods that there are two us ideals that fit into our unit. Those Ideals are Equality and Rights. The Indians were stripped of their rights and forced to move out of their homeland. To go more into depth the Act or law that I am explaining is the Indian removal act of 1830. The Indians were forced to move west, Andrew Jackson offered the Indians the same amount of land, but that wasn’t the point. The Indians couldn’t care less on the land in the west. That land they were on was their sacred land. Overall the Native Americans were given the same amount of land that didn’t allow Jackson or the government to take

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