HIST_405N_week_3_case_study_.docx The Indian Removal Act of 1830 Name Chamberlain Uni

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HIST_405N_week_3_case_study_.docx The Indian Removal Act of 1830 Name Chamberlain University College of Nursing HIST 405N: United States History The beginning of 1830, Native Americans occupi... ed the lands in the southern regions previously owned by their ancestors. There were five Indian tribes established in the areas known as theCherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations. Settlers viewed the Indiansas being in their way of advancement needed to expand the land of the United States, which the white settlers believe they deserved. President Andrew Jackson exhibited the popular opinion of the “majority of Americans believed Indians had no place in the white republic” (OpenStax, 2019). President Jackson, previously a general under President Monroe in 1814, led the United States military armies in defeating a portion of Creek nation. The Creek nation surrendered twenty-two million acres of land in southern Georgia and central Alabama. In 1818, Jackson led another war against the Indians. Slaves were escaping white plantation owners and found a safe haven with the Seminole tribe in Florida causing the First Seminole War. As President he continued his crusade in 1830, Jackson authorized the Indian Removal Act, which “could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands” (Office of History, n.d.).Jackson had a profound racial animosity. He cleverly utilized his power to get rid of the Indians from the United States for the progressi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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