The Removal Act stated that the United States Government had the right to forcefully move the Native Americans to different lands as long as they compensated them for the land that they had to give up in the east. The US Government did not give the Native Americans any say regarding their move. Once the Removal Act signed into place they had to follow it. The move negatively impacted on the tribes’ health, their population and their way of living. Out of about 15,000 Cherokee that were forcefully moved to the West, about 4,000 died on the road there.
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.
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.
Thousands of people died and it started racial tension that still exists today. Millions of people were forced to migrate to foreign countries far away. What caused this great “diaspora”? What was the reason for of the magnitude of this tragedy? Well, let us look deeper at the history of the African slavery.
The genocide in Darfur, Sudan has already caused hundreds of thousands of Darfuris to die and cause more than 2 million people to be homeless. The genocide began in early 2003 when members of two rebel groups revolted against the Sudanese government in Khartoum alleging systematic neglect of the inhabitants of Darfur. The two rebel groups are the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA). The government responded by launching an assault against these two rebel groups. Black Arabs were being discriminated against because they were black and they were being told that they weren't in the right religion.
The Indian removal act, that was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, helped destroy Native American culture east of the Mississippi River. The Indian Removal Act authorized President Andrew Jackson to negotiate with the Native Americans for their homelands in exchange for federal territory west of the Mississppi river. In theory, the Native Americans were supposed to leave their homelands voluntarily. Instead, pressure was put on the Native Americans to sign the removal treaties and were forcibly moved, by the government, west of the mississippi river leaving behind their culture east of the mississippi river. Many of the Native Americans suffered from disease, starvation and death because of the forced relocation to the west.
In 1830 the U.S. Congress passed the " Indian Removal Act", which many were Americans were against. The Cherokee's attempted to fight this law. In the "Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia" the Senate did not see them as a sovereign nation, but in 1838 the U.S. Supreme court ruled in favor of the Cherokees on the same matter, ruling they were a sovereign nation and made the removal laws invalid. The Cherokee Nation would have to agree on removal only by treaty. In 1835 the Cherokee Nation was divided and despondent.
When the Civil War started in the 1860’s, it ripped the country apart, losing honor and pride as a whole in the process. In the Civil War, the two sides, The Union and the Confederacy, were fighting over morals, which, at the time, was slavery. Over the several year span of the war, a lot of battles, in excess of 10 thousand, were fought and a lot of soldiers, in excess of over sixty thousand, were lost. The war pitted brother against brother, tearing apart friendships and family ties. As honor was being restored, things were happening as to remember all the lives that were lost.
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.
Five groups that were affected by industrialization were Native Americans, immigrants to the U.S., women, children and farmers. Due to expansion into the west, more and more Native American tribes were forced to move away from their ancestral lands and slowly had their culture wiped out (“The Industrial Revolution in America,” 2013). They also were attacked by the U.S. government if they refused to move out and were often times slaughtered (Ryan, 2012). Because of the need for labor during Industrialization, more immigrants than ever before came into the country, with some twenty-five million between 1870 and 1920 ("Civil War and Industrial Expansion, 1860–1897 (Overview)," 1999). They were forced to live in squalor, however, being discriminated against and paid the lowest wages possible, hardly enough to live by (“The Industrial Revolution in America,” 2013).