HIST 1483 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Indian Removal Act, Usonia, Five Civilized Tribes
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The white republic: indian removal, black slavery, and western expansion. Jefferson threatened genocide (cid:498)we shall destroy all of them(cid:499: (cid:498)expansion with honor(cid:499) and the civilization policy. Honor -> because of the history of indian wars that resulted in destruction and death. Resistance to total assimilation: some began only taking unsonian ways that were only convenient to them and went along with their beliefs and their already existing way of life. Assimilation would only work if it was total, not partial: jacksonian removal. The five (cid:498)civilized(cid:499) tribes {the five tribes: cherokee, choctaw, creek (muskogee), seminole, chickasaw. Paternalism: natives are incapable of making their own political decisions because their ways of life are not modernized, usonian leaders know what is in the natives" best interest, paternal duty to punish if natives disobey. The indian removal act (1830: authorized jackson to renegotiate existing indian treaties.
