What Everybody Ought To Study About U.S. History From 1787 to 1838 For the CSET

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happy, prosperous people.” — Andrew Jackson


Third Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1831
Funds are appropriated for the removal of eastern tribes; treaty negotiation for actual removal of the Choctaw and Chickasaw underway; Cherokee registration in Georgia recommences with hopes of up to two-thirds participation; removal efforts concentrated in Ohio and Indiana where treaties extinguished all Ohio reservations; philanthropists and missionaries invited to help removed Indians advance “from barbarism to the habits and enjoyments of civilized life.”

“It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have been accomplished by measures equally advantageous to the Indians. What the native savages become when surrounded by a dense population and by mixing with the whites may be seen in the miserable remnants of a few Eastern tribes, deprived of political and civil rights, forbidden to make contracts, and subjected to guardians, dragging out a wretched existence, without excitement, without hope, and almost without thought.” — Andrew Jackson

Fourth Annual Message to Congress, December 4, 1832
Substantial deficit reduction despite Indian ‘removal and preservation’ costs; oblique reference to economics of converting Indian land first to public land, then selling parcels to settlers at cost; Sac and Fox uprising put down — disaffected tribes ‘dispersed or destroyed’; the ‘wise and humane’ Indian removal policy is steadily pursued and approaching consummation — Secretary of War reports; Georgian Cherokees resist removal.

“After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely defeated, and the disaffected band dispersed or destroyed. The result has been creditable to the troops engaged in the service. Severe as is the lesson to the Indians, it was rendered necessary by their unprovoked aggressions, and it is to be hoped that its impression will be permanent and salutary.” — Andrew Jackson

Fifth Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1833
Survivors of Sac and Fox War of 1832 removed west of Mississippi; ‘inferior’ Georgian Cherokee continue to resist ‘force of circumstances’ and refuse removal; Jackson reiterates removal and ‘political reorganisation’ form the best and only option for continued existence of eastern Indians.

“My original convictions upon this subject have been confirmed by the course of events for

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