Indian Removal Act Research Paper

Indian Removal: Is it justified? The Act of Removal of the Cherokee Indians was a rough era in history. The Removal of the Indians happened because the citizens of Georgia wanted to mine on their land. The Cherokee Indians had refused to let them mine on their land because the land belonged to the legally and they were not going to let some strangers come and take their land away from them. How would you like it if someone came into your house and told you to leave? I don't think that you would like that too much. The plan of the removal act was to first take their land, then the U.S. government would force the Indians to relocate west to an area that we now know as Oklahoma. The removal act of the Cherokee Indians was written by President James Monroe. The act was put in place because the citizens of Georgia wanted to mine the gold that is under the ground. The Cherokee Indians own that land legally and technically the citizens of Georgia cannot take the land away from them because they own it. The Cherokees had to sign many treaties in order to claim the land as theirs. Years before the removal act, treaties with the United States government granted these lands to them. The Cherokee Indians don't stay on their land for long. …show more content…
The reason why I oppose the removal act is because the removal act is trying to take away the land that legally belongs to the Cherokee Indians. The Cherokee Indians had to sign treaties with the government in order for them to keep the land. The first document is saying that they want the Cherokee Indians to leave because they did not want them to get killed. They wanted them to leave so that way they would have more