The Seminole War: The Trail Of Tears

During the era of colonization, Native Americans and the new settlers began to clash over the land ownership. The Indian’s were against these new settlers who forced their way on their land due to the overpopulation on American settlements. The settlers wanted the Indians to move west and give their land to the American people. As the American government forced the Indians out of their lands and toward the West, the aggressive removal became known as the Trail of Tears. This tragic event became even more notarized when President Andrew Jackson came into office. Though the Indian tribes were reluctant to give up their land to the government, this was a battle they simply could not win. An arduous fight for land resulted in thousands

Americans were growing quickly and attempted to violate the agreement with the Indians by expanding west, which was issued Indian land. Tempers began to flair as the Indians refused to continue to let the European Americans disrespect their territory, but the Europeans were determined in their quest to seek more land for expansion. The Seminole War, which was fought between 1817 through 1819, was a major battle forged as a result of this forceful expansion. The Native Americans put up a good fight against Andrew Jackson’s army, but in the end Jackson’s army proved to be too strong and overtook the lands of the Indians in Florida. The Indian tribes were forced to live on reserved lands which was not at all suited for their agricultural needs. Due to the constant tension between the two, a seconds Seminole War came about in the late 1830’s. The outcome was Osceola, the leader of the Indian tribes, being captured and murdered. The unwillingness of the Indians to be respected led to the third Seminole battle in the

Because of the unfair treatment by the American government, many of the Native Americans began the long torturous journey known as the Trail of Tears. However, the Cherokee formed a government to compete for their land but was faced with difficulty after gold was found on their land. This only intensified the hunt for the Indian tribe’s land. The Cherokees attempted to outsmart the United States by creating a law that stated if one buys their land, they are susceptible to punishment. This law was later considered null and void in 1828. The Cherokee Tribe would soon go against Georgia in a Supreme Court case in 1831 that, in the end, caused them to give up their land and forced a move to the West. Jackson introduced the Treaty of New Echota in 1835. The chief of the Cherokee Tribe, John Ross, attempted to fight this treaty but failed and was ordered by the United States government to vanish and pursue shelter in the West. This shift in the Cherokees surroundings led to the deaths of thousands of Indians due to starvation and the inability to adapt to the severe dry land of the West. Many others had to face the cruel punishment of imprisonment. Once finally settled in their western territories, the government went on to pass two other treaties against the Indians in the years 1854 and 1866, which further decreased the size of their already scant land. The