In Henry Knox's letter to President Washington in 1789, "the first of which is by raising an army, and [destroying the resisting] tribes entirely or 2ndly by forming treaties of peace with them", "under the existing circumstances of affairs, the United States have a clear right, consistently with the principles of justice and the laws of nature, to proceed to the destruction or expulsion of the savages," the use of the word savages shows that Americans had irreverence toward the Indians" ethnic backgrounds. Henry Knox wanted to destroy the Cherokee tribes in order to gain land for the Uni...

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Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. In the light of the following documents and your knowledge of the 1820s and 1830s. To what extent do you agree with the Jacksonian...

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"When a long train of abuses and usurpations take place it is their right, it is their duty to use every constitutional means to reform the abuses of such a government, and to provide new guards for their future security," argued George Henry Evans in "The Working Man's Declaration of Independence," (DOC A). ... Jacksonian Democrats further gave economic opportunity to the individual in the case of Charles River Bridge v. ...

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