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The Trail of Tears- During the 1830s the Americana's viewed the Natives as a problem and felt as if they were entitled to the land the natives had inhabited far longer then them. As more settlers began to colonize the Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia, gold and other treasures were discovered on Indian territory. The Americans grew determined to gain this land and it riches. They decided that the best way to avoid clashes between the natives and white settlers was to encourage English culture such as Christianity and learning to speak and read English. Officials met to discuss a removal treaty at New Echota, the Cherokee capitol, and later formed the treaty of New Echota (Constitutional Rights Foundation). This
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The economy faced a crisis known as the Panic of 1837. It was caused by dried up credit, banks going into foreclosure, a depression in Great Britain which led to restrictive lending policies and a decreased sale of cotton. Because of his remedies to solve the depression he earned himself the nickname “Martin Van Ruin” (Biography). He proposed that the government that the government continue Andrew Jackson’s deflationary policies, although it only worsened the depression. He opposed the idea of another Bank of The United States, and worked towards forming an independent treasury system. The Panic of 1837 had a significant impact on the United States because the recession continued for nearly seven years, and it contributed to the defeat of Martin Van Buren in his …show more content…
It began with the slave Sengbe Pieh who broke out of his chains and later feed the other slaves. The seized control of the ship by killing and disarming most of the crew members. They later attempted to sail back to African, however they were sailing in the wrong direction and ended up in Long Island, New York and were soon arrested by the United States Navy. The Spanish government, urged President Martin Van Buren to return the slaves. The abolitionists groups protested and formed a defense for the African slaves (Law. Cornell). Eventually, the supreme court ordered their freedom. Although it did not end slavery in the United States or slave trading, it had a significant impact on the process of ending slavery and gained more support from government
The Trail of Tears was one of the examples of when America treated Native Americans terrible. This event was absolutely terrible. We forced the Indians to walk to the West because white settlers wanted to grow more cotton. There was actually a law that let America remove all indians to the West, so that they can get more land to grow cotton. Now this wasn’t just a normal peaceful walk. These people were dying of starvation, most of them wasn’t able to keep their belongings, and there was many sicknesses. This 1,200 mile walk led to over 5,000 Cherokees dying.
Andrew Jackson signed the indian removal act in 1830. This act allowed him to make treaties with the natives and steal their lands. The Trail of Tears was a forced relocation of more than 15,000 cherokee Indians. The white men/people gave the natives 2 options: 1. Leave or 2. Stay and Assimilate (learn our culture). The natives couldn’t have their own government. There were 5 civilized tribes including the cherokees. They learned english and went to american schools and when the cherokees went to court they won.
Andrew Jackson is often referred to as one of America’s greatest presidents. Yet, evaluating his presidency has proven to be a problematic undertaking. Weighing his accomplishments against his tribulations is often conflicting. Having written three volumes and six novels on the life and presidency of Andrew Jackson, Robert V. Remini (1921-1913) is regarded as a Jacksonian authority. In Andrew Jackson & His Indian Wars (2001), Robert V. Remini unearths many of the atrocities committed against Native Americans by Jackson. Remini argues that Jackson’s experience and sentiment towards natives aided his ascension of the military and political ladders.
The trail of tears was a hideous harsh horrible time that the Native Americans will not forget the 1830s about 100,000 Native Americans peacefully lived on 1,000,000 and 1,000,000 of akers. They have been on this land generations before the wight men arrived. There was gold found in Gorga and the land was for ital. They used huge cotton plantations because the people would get rich off of them. In 1830 Andrew Jackson privily sinned the removal act. Te removal act gave the Government the power to trade the land for the land that the Native Americans were on. The Native Americans did not want to move, but the precedent sent troops to force the removal. Solders who looted there homes traveled 15,000 Cherokees, and gunpoint marched over 12,000
Jackson remained in the military after the war. Late in 1817,he received orders to subdue the Seminole Native Americans, who were raiding across the border from Spanish Florida itself. He captured its bastions at St. Marks Pensacola and arrested, tried, and executed two British nationalists whom he charged with abetting the Native Americans.
The Cherokee Trail of Tears resulted from the execution of the Treaty of New Echota (1835), an “agreement” signed under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 (The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears). With the expansion of the American population, the discovery of gold in Georgia, and the need for even more land for American results in the push to move the Natives who were “in the way”. So with the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Congress acted to remove Natives on the east coast of the United States to land west of the Mississippi River, something in which was never embraced or approved by them (The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears). Many state governments, such as Georgia, did not want Native-owned land within their boundaries, while the Natives did not want to move. However, under the Removal Act, the United States Congress gave then-President Andrew Jackson the authority to negotiate removal treaties.
To own land, that is the privilege of whom? To Andrew Jackson the Cherokees current homesteads where on his country’s land. For whatever reason at that time some people living in America weren’t treated as good as there white counterparts. Meanwhile the Cherokees principal chief John Ross felt like that land belonged to his people. If you want to get technical he was speaking on the behalf of a tribe that made up a mere one-eighth of his ancestry. Not exactly a full blooded leader. He also was one of the main reason the “trail of tears” was as hostile and brutal as it was on his people. Its ironic, even as hard as Jackson pushed and deceived the Cherokee, the Cherokee people in turn pushed back, but past the point of being rational.
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States and was, arguably, the president that caused the most controversy. History shows Andrew Jackson overused his power yet, despite this, he was still well liked by the common men that elected him. Andrew Jackson used more veto power than all of his predecessors combined. He used his law making and veto power according to how he wanted the government to be perceived. At the time, Andrew Jackson was admired by many people. His laws represented the common man and were in line with what the citizens of America wanted, regardless of the actual effect on the economy and government. Despite the voter views, Andrew Jackson only acted according to his wants and how he thought government should
The Trail Of Tears is about how Andrew Jackson was removing the Native Americans out of their homes and away from those that they loved and the Native Americans have been for a long time.The soldiers had to help Jackson remove them, and also the soldiers had to do what they told or they might have either been killed or put into jail. Jackson had the Congress agreeing with him, and they passed Indian Removal by the Congress, and then signed by Jackson.President Andrew Jackson was not justified in his support of and the enforcement of the Indian Removal because he should not have taken the land away from the Native Americans and giving to other people.
As one of the most controversial figures in American history, Andrew Jackson, in the modern era, is regarded as a detestably violent and morally devoid individual. There is a certain moral complexity when one examines the accomplishments and political decisions accompanying Andrew Jackson's legacy. While Jackson is certainly deserving of credit in certain, primarily political, respects, the disastrous, violent outcomes underlying his starkly held personal beliefs supplant the aforementioned positive aspects Jackson's legacy includes. When examined in this manner, time has crafted an entirely disparate and stained narrative for Andrew Jackson. Taking this information into account poses a question to modern Americans: Should Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson is one of the most controversial presidents. Many regard him as a war hero, the father of the Democratic Party, an inspiring leader, and a spokesman for the common man. While there is plenty to praise about the seventh president, his legacy is tarnished by his racism, disregard for the law of the land, cruelty towards the Native Americans, and ruthless temper. Jackson was an intriguing man who was multi-faceted. One must not look at a singular dimension, and cast judgment on him as a whole. To accurately evaluate one of the most complex presidents, it is crucial to observe Jackson from all possible angles. Prior lifestyle, hardships in life, political ideology, lifestyle of the time, political developments, and his character
The Trail of Tears was a hard battled journey for the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee were driven to move west. They had to compromise and sign treaties, which drove them out of their land by the U.S. government. This was unfair to the Cherokees; the white settlers wanted the land for gold. Trail of tears is historically monumental because it shows the U.S. government cruelty to the Native Americans. It was unfair rights because they basically stole Cherokees land to satisfy their hunger for gold.
The Trail of Tears is a historical title given to an event that happened in 1838.In this event, the Cherokee community of Native Americans was forced by the USA government to move from their native home in the Southern part of the contemporary America to what is known as the Indian territories of Oklahoma. While some travelled by water, most of them travelled by land. The Cherokees took 6 months to complete an 800 miles distance to their destination.
I walked into the room on New Year’s Day and felt a sudden twinge of fear. My eyes already hurt from the tears I had shed and those tears would not stop even then the last viewing before we had to leave. She lay quietly on the bed with her face as void of emotion as a sheet of paper without the writing. Slowly, I approached the cold lifeless form that was once my mother and gave her a goodbye kiss.
Shortly after the American Revolution, the United States entered an era of profound economic and social change that was dominated first by the Market Revolution and subsequently by Andrew Jackson’s skillful use of the power of the presidency to crack down on capitalist exploitation. Jackson’s first biographer, James Parton, however, describes the legacy of the seventh President’s administration as one fraught with controversy, “Andrew Jackson was a patriot, and a traitor. He was the greatest of generals, and wholly ignorant of the art of war. He was the most candid of men, and capable of the profoundest dissimulation. He was a democratic autocrat, an urbane savage, an atrocious saint.” Many people argue that Jackson, having turned the federal