JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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avoid conflict between white settlers and American Indian tribes
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provide legal protections for American Indian tribal land ownership
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assimilate American Indian tribes into the culture of the United States
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use American Indian tribes to push out foreign control of western territories
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jackson declared that removal would “incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier.” Clearing Alabama and Mississippi of their Indian populations, he said, would “enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power."
Detailed explanation-2: -At that time, millions of indigenous people had settled across North America in hundreds of different tribes. But between 1622 and the late 19th century, a series of wars and skirmishes known as the Indian Wars took place between American-Indians and European settlers, mainly over land control.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main conflict of the Indian Removal Act was two-fold: the U.S. government was violating previous agreements already made with many of these tribes that was supposed to allow them to live on their traditional lands, and likewise that most of these tribes did not want to relocate.
Detailed explanation-4: -These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of progress. Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory. Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal.