Indian Removal Act Research Paper

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To be protected by someone, you would have to put all your trust into them in order to believe that they will protect you. With that being said, the United States Government did the exact opposite of what they were suppose to do. The Removal of the Indians was a ruthless and cruel law that lead to many Natives being forced out of their homes, dying from starvation and diseases, and being thrown out of their land just because the Americans were being selfish with their land. The Indian Removal act is not constitutional because it was not fair for the Native Americans to be forced out of their homes just because the Americans did not want them there. The process of the Indian Removal treaty started in 1830 and ended in the mid-1840s and involved every tribe that was on the boundaries of the east Mississippi River.(Lebeau, p136) This law required equal treatment and fair compensation, but was actually cruel and heartbreaking especially to tribes who resisted to move towards Oklahoma. In this case, the Americans came into their territories, hunted them down, rounded them up and forced them out of their properties, pushing them toward the Western lands of Oklahoma …show more content…
Being under the protection of the United States Government, the government did not keep a close eye on the natives or cared for them like they said they would. Instead of protecting them, they let the Americans be cruel and savage their way to force the Natives out of their territories to benefit their needs as a government so they can become strong and only benefit from this for their own well being. The Americans did this to strengthen the government for their own