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Indian Removal Act
1. Indian Removal Act
Indian Removal (Zinn Chapter 7) Once the white men decided that they wanted lands belonging to the Native Americans (Indians), the United States
Government did everything in its power to help the white men acquire Indian land. The US Government did everything from turning a blind eye to
passing legislature requiring the Indians to give up their land (see Indian Removal Bill of 1828). Aided by his bias against the Indians, General Jackson
set the Indian removal into effect in the war of 1812 when he battled the great Tecumseh and conquered him. Then General, later to become President,
Jackson began the later Indian Removal movement when he conquered TecumsehĐâs allied Indian nation and began distributing...show more content...
Georgia). The state of Georgia never released them from imprisonment and Jackson never intervened. The government also turned a blind eye when
dealing with treaties that were previously agreed to with the Indians. In 1791 the Cherokee nation acknowledged themselves to be under the protection
of the United States and no other sovereign, also an agreement was made that white men could not be on their lands without passports. Jackson
himself offered false promises to the Indians that they would have the lands west of the Mississippi "as long as Grass grows or water runs." These
lands were taken away barely 50 years after they were assessed. The United States government played a cruel game when it relocated its Indian
population (some could argue this as survival of the fittest, evolution). They turned a blind and mostly bias eye when it came to Indian politics and
treaties they had made twenty years prior. They made promised that were going to be broken, and which there were no way of avoiding. In short, the
government in a way did the same thing to the Indians that Jackson did to the Bank:
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2. Indian Removal Act
Upon the start of the Indian removal act, America dipped into a dark point in our history. With it's harsh brutality and forceful nature, we see
xenophobia plaque the minds of the Americans. The removal of Native Americans from their homelands was a denial of basic human rights, it forced
natives off their land and exposed them to terrible conditions during the relocation process.
Native Americans were treated rather unfairly. Casting Native Americans out of their homes was not only robbing them of their land, but their basic
human rights as well. Many colonist refused to bond with Native Americans out of fear, eventually they got so scared of the Natives that they called
for the "Indian Removal Act." Andrew Jackson was the man behind the
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