President Jackson And The Removal Of The Cherokee Indians
Beginning of paper
"The decision of the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee
Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830's was more a
reformulation of the national policy that had been in effect since the
1790's than a change in that policy." The dictum above is firm and can be
easily proved ....
Middle of paper
.... of Georgia. Jackson, who sympathized with
the frontiersman, was so outraged that he refused to enforce the decision.
Instead he persuaded the tribe to give up it's Georgia lands for a
reservation west of the Mississippi.
According to Document A, the map shows eloquently, the relationship
between time and policies which effected the Indians. From the Colonial and
Confederation treaties, a significant amount of land had been acquired from
the Cherokee Indians. Successively, during Washin ....
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