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Westward Expansion

 

" There was a bonanza to be made in the speculation of land and slaves.2 .
             The whites in their quest for wealth, needed to move the Indians from valuable land that was held by them. It was these pursuits that led to such federally sponsored programs as, the "Indian Removal Act." President Andrew Jackson often remembered as one of the top ten best presidents, helped to push the act through legislation. Having negotiated nine out of eleven treaties designed to relieve the Indians of their eastern lands, Jackson was clearly a proponent for the elimination of Native Americans. .
             The Indians had to decide whether it was better to give up their ancestral lands or to continue to live where they were left unprotected. Those tribes that did not move west were subject to continual harassment by the land-hungry whites that stole their livestock, burned their towns, and squatted on their land. Some tribes such as the Choctaws saw it was a fruitless venture to resist and were one of the first to sign over their land. The government traded the Indians land in Oklahoma in exchange for their land holdings in the south and the east. Oklahoma became home to the "Five Civilized Tribes," the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and eventually the Seminole. The Seminole was one of the hold out nations having battled the U.S. military in no less than three major battles, losing thousands of lives before eventually succumbing to the program.3.
             In observing the Native Americans reaction to their continued manipulation and .
             abuse from the whites it is very clear that they tried their best to cooperate and work to .
             2. William Scarborough, "William Scarborough on Bleeding Kansas." Judgment Day, pars. 1-6 [article online] accessed 16 February 2003. Available from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3092.html. .
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             3. Indian Removal, pars. 1,3,5, [article online], accessed 16 February 2003. Available from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3098.


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