In 1830, Jackson ignored a Supreme Court ruling to sign into law the Indian Removal Act, forcing native people to lands in the West, away from their homes east of the Mississippi river.
The reason: Gold.
Gold had been found on Cherokee land, and Jackson wanted it. The president’s excuse for removal – claiming the Cherokees had violated the constitution by declaring their own state without approval – was a smokescreen.
The native Americans were eventually forced to march 800 miles west. From the 47,000 southeastern Indians that were uprooted, it is estimated that 1 in 4 died from either exhaustion or starvation on what is now called The Trail of Tears. Jackson acquired more than one hundred million acres of land.
The Indian Removal Act was genocide.
Andrew Jackson should not be on the $20 bill I have many more reason but that’s the biggest.
Alexander knew that if he just forced the Hellenic culture on the nations and people he conquered, there would be mass resentment, and uprisings. He blended cultures to prevent that, and really, it worked.
The answer is D - Locke believed that everyone should have their right, too.
This book was called How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis in 1890. This book documented the lives of poor immigrants living in cramped tenements in dirty slums in New York.
The answer is all of the above
