President Jackson

As a man from the Frontier State of Tennessee and a leader in the Indian wars, Jackson loathed the Native Americans. Keeping with consistency, Jackson found a way to use his power incorrectly to eliminate the Native Americans. In May 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act. This act required all tribes east of the Mississippi River to leave their lands and travel to reservations in the Oklahoma Territory on the Great Plains. This was done because of the pressure of white settlers who wanted to take over the lands on which the Indians had lived. The white settlers were already emigrating to the Union, or America. The East Coast was burdened with new settlers and becoming vastly populated. President Andrew Jackson and the government had to find a way to move people to the West to make room. In 1830, a

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Approximately four thousand of the thirteen thousand Cherokees died on their way due to exposure to the bitter cold, disease, and starvation. Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokees were a "domestic dependent nation," and therefore, eligible to receive federal protection against the state. The Cherokees could take only what they could easily carry. new state law said that the Cherokees would be under the jurisdiction of state rather than federal law. The hardships of the Indian Nations were due to the signed Indian Removal Act that resulted in the Trail of Tears. In the spring of 1838, the Cherokee became the last of the great southeastern nations to leave their eastern lands. This meant that the Indians now had little, if any, protection against the white settlers that desired their land. There was not much medical attention because it took them so long to travel this trail. People were driven off their land at bayonet or gunpoint. This trail was better known as the "Trail of Tears". The Creeks were forced off their land in 1836. Transportation was given only to those who could pay for it. The items that a few did take were often ordered to be left behind along the way. However, Jackson essentially overruled the decision. The Indian Removal Act forced all Indians tribes be moved west of the Mississippi River.

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