Why did the U.S. government remove Native Americans from the Southeast in the 1830s?
1 Answer
Mar 2, 2017
The Americans just wanted more land.
Explanation:
People had wanted to gain access to that land for a long time, and slowly the land that the Native American tribes of the area had decreased. Many of them were forced to leave, and one of the most popular ones is the Cherokee. They attempted to assimilate into the American and European culture as they were told to, but this was still not enough for the Americans.
They wanted the land and violated the Native Americans' treaties in order to obtain it, and Andrew Jackson ignored the Supreme Court's decision to allow the Cherokee to stay. It was all about land and allowing a new group of people (the whites) to take over - this is Jackson's rhetoric.
