Bridget Mejia February 16, 2012 Essay What factor set the stage for the Indian Removal Act? Early in the 19th century the United States expanded into the lower South white settlers faced off. Areas of home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. The Indians nations the view of the settlers and many other Americans standing in the way of progress. Edgar for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire of Indian Territory.
“The Long, Bitter Trail” By Anthony F.C. Wallace “The Long, Bitter Trail” in my opinion, was a very good book that taught me a lot I didn’t know until I read the book. The book is about how Andrew Wallace’s investigation of one influential decision involving the five civilized tribes of the Native American’s living in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee for years after the construction of the American Republic. Also the efforts Andrew Jackson, who was an Indian fighter and land grabber for a long time, while being president in 1830 signed the act allowing the eviction of the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles. Wallace begins the book by describing who the people were who benefited from the diffusion of agricultural practices way before Columbus.
In the 1840s and '50s, the party was in conflict over extending slavery to the Western territories. Southern Democrats insisted on protecting slavery in all the territories while many Northern Democrats resisted. The party split over the slavery issue in 1860 at its Presidential convention in Charleston, South Carolina. The Gilded Age politics, called the Third Party System, was characterized by intense competition between the two parties, with minor parties coming and going, especially on issues of concern to prohibitionists, labor unions and farmers. The Emancipation Proclamation issued on 1863 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States, at state and local levels, and which continued in force until 1965, which mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.
Many tense moments helped push the United States on, but these put it to war. In 1848, the United States added 500,000 square miles of land to itself for winning the Mexican-American War. There were many debates about the issue of slavery in the new lands. Lewis Cass encouraged popular sovereignty to let the people decide on the issue. Many Northerners wanted to follow the Wilmot Provisio, a document
The Indians had been persecuted, harmed, and removed from their land by whites ever since the very first years of colonization in America, and Western movement caused the final blow to these people. The Cherokees of Georgia made efforts to learn the ways of the whites by opening schools, adopting a written constitution, and even turning to slaveholding. For these efforts the Cherokees, along with the Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles, they were named the “Five Civilized Tribes.” But, these efforts were not good enough for the whites. In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, providing for the transplanting of all Indian tribes then resident east of the Mississippi. In 1838, the US army forced the Cherokees from their homelands in the Trail of Tears into Indian Territory.
Birth of the Confederacy The election of Abraham Lincoln as the sixteenth President of the United States on November 6, 1860 was a signal for the seven lower South states to secede from the Union. South Carolina, the state that had been most outspoken and felt it had the most to lose from Lincoln’s impending reign, acted first. In a seeming paradox, but remembering the lessons learned from the Nashville convention of 1850, which ended in caution and delay, secession in the lower South moved swiftly on a state-by-state basis rather than by collective action. So, because the ground for secession had long since been plowed and planted, the harvest of disunion came quickly after the thunderstorm of Lincoln’s election. [1] Between December 20, 1860 and February 1, 1861, six other lower South states followed South Carolina in this order: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
Many Americans believe that God give them the power and duty to expand territory, strengthen the United States. The motivation of United States launched this war is a debatable subject. The origin and influence The term Manifest Destiny was popular in the 19th century, some Americans believed they had the destiny to expand American continent Territory, from the Atlantic coast to Pacific Ocean. The ideal of territory expansion is already had before the American Independence, but in 1845, The United States Magazine and Democratic Review editor John O'Sullivan published an essay “Annexation”. “…our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions”[2] This essay reveal John O'Sullivan claim United States had a destiny expansion .
It is not until, 1830 when Andrew Jackson propose an act in removal of the Indians and push them to the west of the Mississippi Riverthe Indian removal act. At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Indian Removal was a US governmental policy with particular focus on the five civilized tribes of the South, to relocate the Native Americans which resided in their homelands east of the Mississippi to lands west not yet occupied by settlers. Today the state of Oklahoma is home to these numerous non-indigenous tribes and their lineages.Thomas Jefferson fathered the Indian Removal, by becoming the first presidential advocate to land hungry Americans. Settlers fueled by a deep seeded fear of Indians and consumed by greed believed that the Native American’s lands were prime agriculturally and further, that it was not fair that they were not allowed access to it. Continued expansion at the time was coined as the key to success, and that obtaining the Indian lands was in fact the only means to achieving this, settlers in turn viewed Indians as obstacles blocking the path of American progress.
This expansion, pushed by economic desires and feelings of American cultural superiority, led directly to the emergence of the divisive issue of slavery as the dominant issue in national politics.” Polk’s deliberate expansion on antislavery grounds reopened the issue of slavery in the territories. Northern Whig congressmen voted for military appropriation despite the misgivings they encountered. The door to sectional controversy was opened over the issue of expansion. David Wilmot, Democratic congressmen from Pennsylvania, proposed an amendment to a military appropriations bill in August 1846 during the time of the Mexican-American War. This bill suggested that slavery be banned in all territories acquired from Mexico.
Manifest Destiny was the belief widely held by Americans in the 19th century that the United States was destined to expand across the continent. Manifest destiny provided the dogma and tone for the largest acquisition of U.S. territory. It was used by Democrats in the 1840s to justify the war with Mexico and it was also used to acquire portions of Oregon from the British Empire. But Manifest Destiny always limped along because of its internal limitations and the issue of slavery, says Merk, and never became a national priority. By 1843 John Quincy Adams, a major supporter, had changed his mind and repudiated Manifest Destiny because it meant the expansion of slavery in Texas.