Indian Removal
The 1830’s removal of the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral land to distant reservations in Oklahoma, known as the Trail of Tears, represented a marked divergence from American national policy. The decision made by the Jackson administration differed in two conspicuous ways: the removal proceeded from a gross breach of treaty and sovereignty rather than a coerced Teformulation of a treaty; it defied the entire Judicial branch of government by going against the Supreme Court. Although the historical trend was building up to greater and greater clashes between Indians, the national policy had not overtly changed until Jackson proposed the Indian Removal Act. Beginning in 1721 the colonies had made treaties with Native Americans (Doc. A). Successive US Treaties took away successive amounts of land (Doc. A). Although coerced, these treaties were superficially legal. Henry Knox, secretary of war under Washington’s administration and negotiator of the Cherokee Treaty of Holston, summarized the possibilities for the United States as follows, “…two modes present themselves…; the first of which is by raising an army and [destroying the resisting] tribes entirely, or 2ndly by forming tr
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Approximate Word count = 883
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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