Andrew Jackson Pros And Cons

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America has many presidents who are still remembered with their legacies, but President Andrew Jackson’s presidency is a history of which the Native American will never forget. Jackson’s democracy was not in support for women to vote, and black men to join in armies. The people who paid the greatest price through his presidency were the Indian tribes, whom he forced to move from their land which belonged to their ancestors.
Therefore, in 1800s all the five civilizer tribes are Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Seminoles and Cherokee wanted to adopt European ways of living for them to survive within white culture. The way of adopting white culture was, they invited Moravian missionaries in to their community in 1801. Missionaries taught them the ways white did agriculture, domestic arts, and taught them how to speak English, read, and pushed for them to believe in Christianity. Then from that moment, the tribes invented their own written language and adopted a constitutional government modeled after the United State Constitution. However, with these entire struggles it does not make any difference to the State of Georgia.
Whites thought Indians were savages or odd people and they had all the lands. Georgia wanted the federal government to give land to the Cherokee in the Appalachian Mountain and the government approved Georgia’s request. In 1817 6,000 Cherokee were convinced by Jackson to move voluntarily to the Arkansas Territory, but most of them refused. When Jackson was elected as a President, he was committed to move the Cherokee by force. After that, congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 and the other Indians tribes went, but the Cherokee planned to stay and fight back politically and legally.
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... leaders to representative a government. With all these some of the Cherokee were force to move to Oklahoma, and they were not the only group to encounter the hardship. Finally, the Seminole in Florida wanted the government to pay them before they moved. By 1838 nearly all the Cherokee had to leave under brutal and hostile conditions. My opinion is, living in this time, with all the confusion and disloyalty, greed, deception, stealing and unmoral ways , I only can imagine that in today’s time me personally I problem would have been dead early on. I wonder in today’s time were they picking in those days or were there any such thing as strike or just shutting things off such as business or cattle, but problem not I suppose that how we were lead into Martin Luther King days and how Civil Rights came about. I’m so grateful to be born when I was,1971. “Hallelujah”.

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