Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was a known Indian hater. Before his presidency he did all that he could to remove the Creek and Seminole Indians from their lands, during the Creek and Siminole War, merely for his own profit. Jackson was raised on a farm and was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He had to find his fortune on his own. His did this by prospecting. He made a fortune selling off the Indians land that he manipulated them out of. His habit of walking all over the Indians did not change, even when he became president. During his presidency he removed almost all of the Indians out of the east because he wanted their land, and because he didn't like them. Jackson tried to justify his removals as being beneficial to the Indians. The government tried to reform the "savages." But that failed. People still would not accept the Indians educated or not. For this reason Jackson felt it best for the Indians to be placed some were undomesticated so they could continue to hunt and be "savages." Native American tribes were self sufficient by nature. They conducted their own affairs and depended upon no other source of power to uphold their acts of government. Colonial governments and later the federal government of the United St
" That is until Jackson took office. As time went on, however, the Americans claimed dominion over all the territories of the United States and those claims seemed to limit the trust of the Native Americans living there. From there the embarked on a eight hundred mile journey west. Jackson would sometimes use alcohol to coerce them into signing off their land in a drunken state. ates treated with the Indian nations as they did with foreign nations and allowed them to regulate their own affairs. These clashes between the militia and the Indians often led to massacres of Indian women and children. Just during his presidency he signed ninety-four treaties. Within their territories, Native Americans governed their own internal matters. Indian nations were recognized as separate and self supportive. Weather from freezing, starvation, or just plain murder from looters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. The Indians were dispersed in three groups.
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