Where are they now? In the 1830s, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which forcibly relocated the 5 “Civilized” Indian Tribes: Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole. Even though they were slowly integrating American culture and were showing great progress toward civilization. The Indians were forced to adapt to the new, foreign environment they were sent to or be killed by American soldiers because for one they were considered “dangerous savages”. To them their environment shaped their
President Andrew Jackson encouraged Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act in 1830, which gave the federal government the authority to move consenting eastern Native American tribes west of the Mississippi River. It has been debated whether the Indian Removal Act benefitted or harmed the welfare of Native Americans, and it can be argued that the Indian Removal Act of 1830 had an extremely negative impact on the eastern Native American tribes that relocated west of the Mississippi River. President
Americans felt in 1830 when Andrew Jackson came up with the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act and the events leading up to it is a direct violation of the constitution. It is unconstitutional because the Natives had to convert their way of life to “stay” on their own land and then forced them off their tribal land. Jackson was a power hungry man who believed that anything he said everyone had to abide by, especially the Indian Removal Act. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in between
pressure, and the need to fulfill his campaign promise to open Indian land for settlement, Andrew Jackson pushed through Congress the Removal Act. The Act allowed the government to negotiate treaties with the various Native American tribes, pay them for their lands, relocate them to western lands, and support the tribes for one year after removal. President Jackson, more than anyone else, was responsible for the fate of the five civilized tribes of the southeast. When the state of Georgia annexed the Cherokee
they needed the Natives out. There were several motives for the removal of the Indians from their lands, to include racism and land lust. Since they first arrived, the white Americans hadn’t been too fond of the Native Americans. They were thought to be highly uncivilized and they had to go. In his letter to Congress addressing the removal of the Indian tribes, President Jackson states the following: “It will separate the Indians from immediate contact with settlements of whites; free them from
Alabama and Mississippi. Since Native American tribes living there appeared to be the main obstacle to westward expansion. The President then forced upon the Native Americans treaty whereby they surrendered to the United States over twenty-million acres of their traditional land—about one-half of present day Alabama and one-fifth of Georgia. In 1829 Andrew Jackson said to the people "It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy
from the south to expand owning land from Five Indian tribes, which was called Indian Removal Policy (McNamara). The Five Indian tribes that were affected were Choctaws, Muskogee, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and the Seminoles. In the 1830, the Removal Act went into effect. The Removal Act gave President Andrew Jackson the power to remove Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi river by a negotiate removal treaties (James). The treaties, made the Indians give up their land for exchange of land in the
It all started with the law imposed by Andrew Jackson called the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which authorized the president to negotiate with the Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their immediate removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange of their homelands. The government leaders felt that these tribes did not fit into their “New World.” The tribes of Indians involved were the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee Nations. They were
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was an abuse of power exerted on the Indian tribes residing in America by the people of the colonies as well as presidents at the time of their removal. Many Indians affected lost their lives, their loved one’s lives’, and the land they thrived on dating back years to their ancestors. This act would be later named “the trail of tears” because of the monumental loss the Indian tribes had endured during their displacement, and the physical and psychological damages of
In May 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which forced Native American tribes to move west. Some Indians left swiftly, while others were forced to to leave by the United States Army. Some were even taken away in chains. Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, strongly reinforced this act. In the Second State of the Union Address, Jackson advocated his Indian Policy. There was controversy as to whether the removal of the Native Americans was justified under the administration