Andrew Jackson

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This paper discusses Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the USA who played the most active role in the political and military actions needed to ensure the removal of the Native Americans from their ancestral lands to those the government and its people chose for them. The author summarizes Jackson's ideologies and actions and his concept of manifest destiny as well as his military career. The paper explains how Jackson's experience in life, war and politics serve as an era standard for policy changes. The paper also examines the Indian Removal Act of 1830 that was set about in motion by Jackson as well as his other actions and legislation to free the land from Indian rights to it.

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"Andrew Jackson has the dubious honor of being the president who played the most active role in the political and military actions needed to ensure the removal of the Native Americans from their ancestral lands to those the government and its people chose for them. The most massive forced migrations of native peoples in the history of the US occurred under the watch and with the active participation of Jackson's ideologies and actions. Though he was far from alone in the sentiment that natives needed to be contained and removed from land US citizens wished to settle and in other ways exploit his decisive actions formed the backbone of the "legitimate" manner in which such was done."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Andrew Jackson Biography" www.whitehouse.gov nd.
• Buchanan, John. Jackson's Way: Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
• Dusenbery B. M, Monument to the memory of General Andrew Jackson: Containing twenty-five eulogies and sermons delivered on occasion of his death : to which is added an ... whole preceded by a short sketch of his life (New York: James A. Bill, 1846)
• "Indian Wars Timetable" www.u-s-history.com nd.
• Harris, J. G. 'Eulogy Delivered at Charlotte, Tenn., July 17, 1845,' in Dusenbery B. M, Monument to the memory of General Andrew Jackson: Containing twenty-five eulogies and sermons delivered on occasion of his death : to which is added an ... whole preceded by a short sketch of his life (New York: James A. Bill, 1846), pp. 326-7.

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