JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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To provide a better life for tribes.
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To encourage tribes to adopt the white man’s culture.
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To allow for westward expansion of agriculture.
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To enable Indians to establish farms in more fertile areas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Removal Era (1820-1850) As the United States grew in population, the federal government sought to displace Native Americans to increase room for western expansion. The policy goals of the era focused on removing Native Americans from Indian Country and moving them west beyond the Mississippi River.
Detailed explanation-2: -The British saw Indian territory as a crucial buffer against U.S. aggression and had already shown support to an increasingly militant tribal coalition along the Great Lakes frontier. In June 1812, U.S. President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Britain, initiating the War of 1812.
Detailed explanation-3: -It freed more than 25 million acres of fertile, lucrative farmland to mostly white settlement in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas.