'The Cherokee Removal Book Review\r'

'The Cherokee re dubiousness Book Review The Cherokee remotion is a brief history with documents by Theda Perdue and Michael Green. In 1838-1839 the US troops expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral native bring in in the Southeast and postulated them to the Indian ground in what is now Oklahoma. The remotion of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for land during the growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discoery of gold on the Cherokees land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners had toward the Indians.The Cherokees had lived in the interior southeast, for hundreds of years in the nineteenth century. But in the early 18th century setters from the European ancestry started miserable into the Cherokees dirt. From then on the colonial governments in the area began demanding that the Cherokees give up their territory. By the end of the Revolutionary contend, the Cherokees had surrendered more than half(prenominal) of their original t erritory to the state and federal official government.In the late 1780’s the US began press the Cherokees to stop hunting and their traditional slipway of life and to instead learn about how to live, farm, and worship like Christian Americans. contempt everything the white people in gallium and other southern states that abutted the Cherokee earth refused to encounter the Cherokee people as social equals and urged their policy-making representatives to take the Cherokees land. The purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 gave Thomas Jefferson the chance to pop off the easterly tribes beyond the Mississippi River.The War of 1812, with assistance from General Andrew Jackson help the United States to end what he called the â€Å" giddiness” of negotiating with the Indians tribes. From that point forward the Georgia politicians more and more raised the pressure on the federal government to fulfill the Compact of 1802. In the agreement the federa l government had to crush out the Indian land title and remove the Cherokees from the states. The Cherokee government maintained that they constituted a sovereign nation independent of the American state and federal government. The Treaty ofHopewell in 1785 established borders amongst the United States and the Cherokee Nation offered the Cherokees the right to send a â€Å" representative” to Congress, and made American settlers in Cherokee territory subject to Cherokee law. With help from John Ross they helped foster the national territory. In 1825 the Cherokees capital was established, set about present day Calhoun Georgia. The Cherokee National Council rede the United States that it would refuse future ceding request and enacted a law prohibiting the deal of national land upon penalty of death.In 1827 the Cherokees adopt a written constitution, an act upgrade removed by Georgia. But between the years of 1827 and 1831 the Georgia legislature all-inclusive the stat e’s jurisdiction over the Cherokee territory, passed laws purporting to abolish the Cherokees’ laws and government, and set in motion a process to seize the Cherokees’ lands, portion out it into parcels, and other offer some to the drawing off to the white Georgians. Andrew Jackson was declared chairman in 1828 immediately declaring the removal of eastern tribes. In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which authorized the president to conduct removal treaties.In 1831 combined army, militia, and other offer up forces began to move the tribes along one of several(prenominal) routes to two forts located in Indian Territory; Fort Gibson and Fort Townson. The in the end tribe to be moved was the Cherokees in 1838. During this move some tribes accepted bribes of property and or land; whole others didn’t and were forced under the threat of death. During the move there were several weigh states along the route, and from bad planning or overlook of concern to malfeasant actions the Indians were not allowed or accustomed access to proper food, medical supplies, flying clothing, nor were allowed to rest for any significant stay of time.This resulted in death of many of the tribal members. The Native Americans began to cal the trail, the â€Å" cut through where they Weeped/ Cried” and it was later changed to â€Å"The Trail of Tears” by modern translation. in that respect were approximately eleven trails that took polar tribes to different locations. They ranged from 200 to 900 miles and went through around fourteen states. There was an estimated 4,000 to 15,000 Cherokees deaths during these trails.\r\n'