JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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The dangers of removal were being exaggerated by Ross and his allies
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Boudinot and his supporters believed that most of their followers also supported Removal but were unable to voice their opinion in tribal conferences
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The only way to preserve what was left of their Native culture was to move west of the Mississippi
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He believed they were being fairly compensated for giving up the land
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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: -Most white Americans supported the Removal Act, especially southerners who were eager to expand southward. Expansion south would be good for the country and the future of the country’s economy with the later introduction of cotton production in the south.
Detailed explanation-3: -At first Boudinot argued strongly against the 1830 Indian Removal Act. However, his views gradually changed and in 1832 he argued that removal was the “course that will come nearest benefiting the nation". As a result of this new stance he was forced to resign as editor of the Cherokee Phoenix.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Trail of Tears was when the United States government forced Native Americans to move from their homelands in the Southern United States to Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Peoples from the Cherokee, Muscogee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole tribes were marched at gunpoint across hundreds of miles to reservations.