Although racist equality was rarley enforced by the United States gorvenment in the past, Andrew Jackson reformulated the unwritten guidelines of Indian relations. For one of the first times in the short American history, the intolerance for Indian "savages" became apparent. The authority of the Persident over the congress also manifested.
             In 1791, President Washington made the Treaty of Holston with the Cherokees. In this, he promised "perpetual peace" between the cherokee and America. In return he would move them out the territory he wanted, hold the only Cherokee treaty, and control all Cherokee trade. President Jefferson's Intercouse Act of 1802 attempeted to restrict all American-Indian contact by making it illegal to go "to any of the Indian tribes south of the river Ohio, without a passport." Both presidents tactfully gained more and more control over the Native American tribes.
             Not all polticians were totally for the removal acts. There were a few that were not searching to thicken the culture gap, but to educate and culturize the Native Americans. Knox and Calhon (both secrataries of war, odd enough) were two of the more influential of these few. In the aformentioned Treaty of Holston, Knox added an amendment saying that "the Cherokee nation may be led to a greater degree of civilization." Knox also advised President Washington to stay out of war with the Indians bcause of the finatial disaster that would ensue. Calhon preached the same ideas to Jackson. He tried to convince him to let the Indians stay on their land by pointing out some of the Cherokee accomplishments (alphabet, property owners, education system.) Even with the strong evidence, Jackson still favored Georgia's effort to deprive the Cherokee nation of it's land.
             Due to Georiga's patriotic and product centered, slaves and land were both very precious to them. After Georgia passed a state law to take land away from the Native Americans, the Cherokee appeal...