Indian Removal Act
Once the white men decided that they wanted lands belonging to the Native Americans (Indians), the United States Government did everything in its power to help the white men acquire Indian land. The US Government did everything from turning a blind eye to passing legislature requiring the Indians to give up their land (see Indian Removal Bill of 1828). Aided by his bias against the Indians, General Jackson set the Indian removal into effect in the war of 1812 when he battled the great Tecumseh and conquered him. Then General, later to become President, Jackson began the later Indian Removal movement when he conquered Tecumsehıs allied Indian nation and began distributing their lands (of which he invested heavily in). Jackson became the leader of the distribution of Indian lands and distributed them in unequal ways. In 1828 when Jackson was running for President his platform was based upon Indian Removal, a popular issue which was working its way through Congress in the form of a Bill. Jackson won a sweeping victory and began to formulate his strategies which he would use in an "Indian
was a large fan of states rights-ism, hence he vetoed the charter for broken, and which there were no way of avoiding. In short, the of Union or Indians he went with the Union and oppressed the Indians. offered more farmland for southern farmers. As far as the actual the Indians, the Legislative branch also suppressed them. In 1828 made twenty years prior. They made promised that were going to be 1829, upon seeing that his beloved Bill was not them from imprisonment and Jackson never intervened. The government also this as survival of the fittest, evolution). They turned a blind and would only cede their lands to the US and move themselves there. Jackson Carolina and gave Georgia all out support. When faced with the decision them "untouchable" tracts of lands west of the Mississippi River if they
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