Internet Rockstar Johnathan Coulton has a song called the presidents. It's a sentence or two for each president. Andrew Jackson was president from 1829 to 1837. His blurb in the song is Andrew Jackson got rid of all the Indians. From reading this intro, that seems like all I need to know about Andrew Jackson.
Ch 1 aboriginia pg 3
There was this idea that everything east of the Mississippi was for white people so they would ship all the Indians west of the Mississippi. This is not a new idea. This same thing of exporting a group of undesirables has been done a lot in Europe.
Ch 2 white Georgia
This exportation to the west was especially popular in Georgia. All the other 13 original colonies had already either gotten rid of or integrated their natives. Georgia still had significant amount of land that native tribes were living on. Georgia's governor was a big assailed repeatedly saying he's gonna get rid of all the Indians and If the feds interfered there would be civil war. There was an interesting thing where they changed their laws so that the governor was now elected by popular vote. Not sure how they figured it out before. So they elected a guy that hated Indians even more and had experience killing them. They tried to do some shady shit trying to negotiate treaties with people that weren't authorized to negotiate in good faith.
This policy of trying to negotiate with the natives abruptly switched when Andrew Jackson was elected president. Cause he was a big fan of killing Indians. So now Georgia had full support of the feds
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