Category: Indian Removal Act

  • Effects of the Indian Removal Act

    President Andrew Jackson, like many other white frontiersman, believed that Indians had no rights and should be treated according to such. After his election in 1828 Jackson recommended that the Eastern Indians be moved west of the Mississippi River to what had become Oklahoma. In Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi state laws had already stripped Indians…

  • Andrew Jackson as America’s Bad President

    Being a lawyer and a landowner, Andrew Jackson has to be considered as one of the most controversial presidents ever. Some may say that he is a bad president seeing the decisions he made that had a huge effect on the citizens but at the same, he could also be argued as a good president…

  • President Andrew Jackson’s Policies: Successful or Not So

    President Andrew Jackson was the United States seventh president and was surrounded by controversy. Despite this, he was still a fairly good president whose legacy was good for the United States, not so much its Native inhabitants. Jackson managed to help pay off the federal debt by cutting federal spending, accelerated the democratization of American…

  • Americas Injustice to the Natives

    The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. The law was signed into…

  • Andrew Jackson and His Impact: Analysis of Indian Removal Act

    Andrew Jackson and his impact (DBQ) Andrew Jackson was 7th President of the United States. With Jackson as the president from 1829 to 1837, America both grew and crippled. Even as the most controversial president ever, the legacy of Andrew Jackson still lives. Because many saw him as a great political figure, his presidency began…

  • Critical Analysis of American Indian Policy: Indian Removal Act and the Tears Trail

    The American Indian Policy was first formulated during the 19th century to allow people in the United States to make good trade with the native Tribes for crops and other materials. Therefore, people who were in the federal government had the power to make deals with the native Tribes with the authority of the Constitution.…