President Jackson And The Removal Of The Cherokee Indians

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According to Document A, the map shows eloquently, the relationship
between time and policies which effected the Indians. From the Colonial and
Confederation treaties, a significant amount of land had been acquired from
the Cherokee Indians. Successively, during Washington's, Monroe's, and
Jefferson's administration, more and more Indian land was being
commandeered. The administrations during the 1790's to the 1830's had
gradually acquired more and more land from the Cherokee Indians. Jackson
followed that precedent by the acquisition of more Cherokee lands.

According to Document B, "the first of which is by raising an army,
and [destroying the resisting] tribes entirely or 2ndly by forming treaties
of peace with them", "under the existing circumstances of affairs, the
United States have a clear right, consistently with the principles of
justice and the laws of nature, to proceed to the destruction or expulsion
of the savages." The use of the word savages, shows ...

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The statement above, explains how
the United States is being avaricious in expanding the State of Georgia
into cherokee lands. Manifest Destiny and irreverence toward the Cherokee
Indians can be explained by this.

According to Document F, "The Indian tribes . . . have for a
considerable time been growing more and more uneasy at the constant
diminution of the territory they occupy, although effected by their own
voluntary sales, and the policy has long been gaining strength with them of
refusing absolutely all further sale on any conditions . . . . In order
peaceable to counteract this policy of theirs and to provide an extension
of territory which the rapid increase of our numbers ...

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