The Struggle against Indian Removal

Historic scandal of Indian removal, day to remember. 1825 Jan. 27; US Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for the forced relocation of the eastern Indian tribes. Tragic and brutal removal from their homelands of the five Indigenous nations. This is a long essay on a particular subject offers a history of Indian removal as a political issue from the War of 1812 to the signing of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Its central argument is that federal removal policy emerged and evolved due to a precise and largely unforeseen sequence of events. Drawing on Indian treaties, with journalism, negotiations with supremacy and colonial rights of discovery and conquest. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the Cherokees were forcibly moved west by the United States government. Approximately 4,000 Cherokees died on this forced march. By the end of the Revolutionary War (1775-83), the Cherokees had surrendered more than half of their original territory to state and federal governments. President James Monroe formally proposing removal to from Congress in 1825 political machinations approves, with vocational decisions. By 1837, the Jackson administration had removed 46,000 Native American people from their land east of the Mississippi, and had secured treaties which led to the removal of a slightly larger number. Most members of the five southeastern nations had been relocated west, opening 25 million acres of land to white settlement and to slavery.