Jackson believed that the Native Americans were in the way of advancement to the American society and that they simply can’t survive in white society. Certain laws and treaties were enforced but necessarily not followed. The 1802 Indian Trade and Intercourse Act had provided that no land cessions could be made except by treaty with a tribe, and that federal rather than state law would operate in Indian Territory. In 1832, after the Supreme Court ruled that states couldn’t legally extend their jurisdiction into Indian Territory, Jackson refuses to enforce the Court’s decision. He was actively working on and in favor of Indian removal. “Jackson uprooted seventy thousand Indians from their homes and drove them west of the Mississippi River. He was clearing the way for the rise of the Cotton Kingdom”(Tamaki 82). This showed how disrespected the native American’s were from the society. The native American’s had no choice to stay they would have been attacked by the American
Jackson believed that the Native Americans were in the way of advancement to the American society and that they simply can’t survive in white society. Certain laws and treaties were enforced but necessarily not followed. The 1802 Indian Trade and Intercourse Act had provided that no land cessions could be made except by treaty with a tribe, and that federal rather than state law would operate in Indian Territory. In 1832, after the Supreme Court ruled that states couldn’t legally extend their jurisdiction into Indian Territory, Jackson refuses to enforce the Court’s decision. He was actively working on and in favor of Indian removal. “Jackson uprooted seventy thousand Indians from their homes and drove them west of the Mississippi River. He was clearing the way for the rise of the Cotton Kingdom”(Tamaki 82). This showed how disrespected the native American’s were from the society. The native American’s had no choice to stay they would have been attacked by the American