Imagine in today’s society, all of a certain minority being sent to Maine against their will while the public was cheering it on. It is incredibly immoral to do such a thing; yet in the early 1800’s this is basically what happened to the Cherokee Nation of Indians. Starting in 1814, Andrew Jackson wanted to move the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, to the present day state of Oklahoma. The Indian Nations traveled through the Trail of Tears to get to their forced new territory. They traveled in many different ways of transportation such as foot, horse, and wagon. Though many are informed of the horror of the Indian Removal Acts, the public seemed …show more content…
They did not protest or object the cruel things that Andrew Jackson was doing. Some of the cruel things being; treating Indians poorly, destroying the bank, and threatening to kill his vice president. The main reason for their carelessness was that they in fact wanted the Indians to leave. The main reasons for them wanting the Indians to leave was more shelter, more land, and more job opportunities. As they were kicking the Natives out of their homes, just moments later new, white, Americans moved right in as the Native families watch another family move into their house (Corby). Today, we can prove that the public promptly did not care about the Natives because they kept their president, Andrew Jackson, in office as the acts were being passed. In the Election of 1832, Jackson won by a landslide with 219 electoral votes. The second place loser, Henry Clay, received only 49 electoral votes (1832 Presidential Election). Obviously, if anyone wanted to change what was going on, Andrew Jackson would not have stayed in …show more content…
Not many of the citizens in the public seemed to care about how the Indians were treated and nothing was done to stop treating them poorly. The people did not try and get rid of the main person who leads it all, Andrew Jackson, they kept him in office and did not speak out against anything he did over his eight years in office. As most can see, the Indian Removal Acts were completely unconstitutional and were a very bad time in the years of America. The government was corrupt under “King Andrew” and it lead to many innocent deaths. This time is looked down on but can not be forgotten. The government America has today ensures that nothing like this could ever happen again.
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