JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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To pursuede the Natives to peacefully move to their new land.
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To tell the Native Americans they wanted to be trading partners
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To make peace with the Native Americans
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To try and negotiate land between the Colonists and Native American
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Detailed explanation-1: -In this letter, Jackson writes to the Cherokee Nation urging them to give up the fight for their homeland. Jackson argues that the Cherokee people will be much better off if they remove to land west of the Mississippi River. He expresses the hope that they will accept the advice that he claims to give them as a friend.
Detailed explanation-2: -The goal was to remove all American Indians living in existing states and territories and send them to unsettled land in the west.
Detailed explanation-3: -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."