JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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Urban centers struggled with a growing population and city dwellers longed for the freedom of open spaces.
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The removal of American Indians was politically popular at a time when fearful citizens were migrating west.
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Property for farming grew expensive as it became scarce and Americans wanted an opportunity to buy cheap land.
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The promise of resources like gold on tribal grounds outweighed any commitments to American Indian land rights.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Based on the example of US government policy toward the Cherokee, why was the US’s political leadership in such a hurry to uproot the American Indian population? The Promise of resources like gold on tribal grounds outweighed any commitments to American Indian land rights.
Detailed explanation-2: -The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians.
Detailed explanation-3: -Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian Territory” across the Mississippi River.
Detailed explanation-4: -This is the story of the removal of the Cherokee Nation from its ancestral homeland in parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama to land set aside for American Indians in what is now the state of Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Cherokee Nation argued that U.S. Indian removal policies were illegal because they violated previous treaties and were not made with the official consent of the Cherokee Nation. In addition, the policies violated American ideals, such as respect for other people’s rights.