Why did Andrew Jackson want the Indians removed in the 1830's?
Because tribes like the Cherokee, in Georgia, had valuable land that could be used by White farmers and planters. There had been fighting between the US military and Native Americans off and on over the years, just as later on a larger scale in the West. And something that you would think work in the Native Americans' favor, actually had the opposite effect. The "Five Civilized Tribes": Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole had taken on 'White man's ways", living in houses and on farms, sometimes speaking English, the Cherokee had developed a written language and even had Bibles and newspapers, many had converted to Christianity; and also buying and selling Black slaves; but instead of making the White settlers more at ease to have "Indian" neighbors, the taking of White ways made the settlers uneasy about the Native Americans (of course if they kept "Indian" ways they would have been unhappy, too). It was felt by some the only way to handle the "Indian problem" was to move them across country to the area later known as Oklahoma.
If a Aztec Indian moved into Cherokee territory and demanded they speak Aztec, what would happen?
I think they would get scalped. In all honesty.. I wish people would quit trying to come into our country and force THEIR language and lifestyles down our throats. If they love their language and lifestyles and culture so much, they need to go back to it. I am not a mean person, but some common sense and pride is needed here! We are AMERICA! Not Mexico, not the middle east, not ...whatever.
Does the Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation support this????
Jackson believes that the removal of the Indians necessary for the esablishment of civilization. Does the Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation support this? Cite at least one quote to support your interpretation. PLEASE HELP!!?
If the Cherokee removal was so dreadful that it was known as the Trail of Tears.......?
Van Buren claimed in Congress that: "The measures of the Removal have had the happiest effect... the Cherokee moved without apparent reluctance." He was glad everything was going smoothly, or so he thought, apparently unaware or indifferent to the suffering of the Cherokees.
Why are many Americans reluctant to put Andrew Jackson's Indian removal into historical context?
Because "context" is the operative word.By the time of Hitler, the world had come around to the notion that human life was (at least in theory) valuable. Treaties on war crimes had been created. Germany was a signator to those treaties. In the time of Jackson, no such treaties existed. More importantly, people truly believed that Native Americans were savages and Jackson was the personification of this belief system. If we engaged in this sort-of retroactive judgement, should we not also condemn every leader for treating women as servants? Children as property of their parents? And on and on? No. That would be silly. And ultimately vacuous. We will never rewrite history and erase the past misdeeds of our forefathers. Just the same, it seems a bit too convenient to absolve Jackson of all of his crimes. I cannot dispense with the notion that -- while considering Native Americans as somehow lesser may be forgivable as sign of the faulty minds of people in that era -- carrying out the wholesale slaughter of them was manifestly, perceptibly wrong. There's simply no way to forgive it and no way to look past it. And as such, people should take a closer look at his actions and judge him appropriately by those actions. This doesn't mean that we -- on our comfortable perch in history -- get to sit and judge people in the past based on our standards. But just as importantly, we should absolutely not run from or hide the horrors done by those who we claim to admire and certainly not avoid placing those horrors in our history books because it makes us squeamish. While it's important to judge Jackson in the context of his time, it's just as important to understand all of the dead bodies that lie beneath our feet and to avoid repeating those mistakes again.