The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians by Anthony F.C. Wallace :: American History

The Long, Bitter Trail Andrew capital of disseminated multiple sclerosis and the Indians by Anthony F.C. WallaceThe Long, Bitter Trail Andrew capital of Mississippi and the Indians was written by Anthony F.C. Wallace. In his book, the main argument was how Andrew Jackson had a direct affect on the mistreatment and removal of the native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory. It was a trail of blood, a trail of death, but ultimately it was known as the Trail of Tears. Throughout Jacksons two terms as President, Jackson used his power unjustly. As a man from the Frontier ground of Tennessee and a leader in the Indian wars, Jackson loathed the Native Americans. retentivity with consistency, Jackson found a path to use his power wrongly to eliminate the Native Americans. In May 1830, President Andrew Jackson sign into law the Indian removal Act. This act required all tribes eastside of the Mississippi River to leave their lands and travel to reservations in the Oklaho ma Territory on the Great Plains. This was done because of the pressure of light settlers who wanted to take all over the lands on which the Indians had lived. The white settlers were already emigrating to the Union, or America. The East Coast was burden with new settlers and becoming vastly populated. President Andrew Jackson and the government had to start a way to move people to the West to make room. In 1830, a new state law said that the Cherokees would be under(a) the jurisdiction of state rather than national law. This meant that the Indians now had little, if any, protection against the white settlers that desired their land. However, when the Cherokees brought their case to the Supreme speak to, they were told that they could not sue on the backside that they were not a foreign nation. In 1832, though, on appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokees were a domestic dependent nation, and therefore, eligible to receive federal protection against the state. However, Jackson essentially overruled the decision. By this, Jackson implied that he had more than power than anyone else did and he could enforce the bill himself. This is yet another way in which Jackson abused his presidential power in swan to produce a favorable result that complied with his own beliefs. The Indian Removal Act forced all Indians tribes be moved west of the Mississippi River. The Choctaw was the first tribe to leave from the southeast.