<em>If I were Andrew Jackson, I would simply let the Native Americans be.</em>
Explanation:
During this time, views towards Native Americans or people of other skin colors, in general, were awful. Andrew Jackson believed that white people had the right to expand westward, even if it meant driving Native Americans from their homes. These views have obviously changed drastically today and everyone can agree that what Andrew Jackson did to the Native Americans was terrible.
The Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830, but it took a while for the Natives to actually be forced out of their homes. When Native Americans did not want to leave, Andrew Jackson threatened that he would force them out and that is what he eventually did. Jackson ended up sending an army to force the Native Americans out and force them to walk to present-day Oklahoma.
This walk that the Native Americans had to go on is now known as the Trail of Tears. The Natives were forced from their homes and forced to walk in all conditions, with little food or water. Thousands of Cherokee ended up dying on the trail, from starvation, disease, and even exhaustion. The Trail of Tears, and how Native Americans were treated as a whole, was terrible and is a bleak part of American history.
