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March 18th , 2009

US History

This is about the assumptions of Thomas Jefferson about Indians and their culture after which I will compare them to his African American analysis

Thomas Jefferson (April 13 , 1743 - July 4 , 1826 ) was the third President of the US (1801-1809 , the chief author of the Declaration of Independence (1776 ) and one of the most powerful Founding Fathers for his endorsement of the ideals of republicanism in the

US . He was the first US President to suggest the idea of a official Indian Removal plan , Andrew Jackson is over and over again incorrectly credited with starting Indian Removal since Congress approved the Indian Removal Act in 1830 in the period of his presidency and furthermore because of his individual involvement in the vigorous annihilation and exclusion of many Eastern tribes . But Jackson was merely making it legal and executing a plan laid out by Jefferson in a chain of confidential letters that started in 1803

Jefferson 's initial promotions of Indian Removal were between 1776 and 1779 when he suggested forcing the Cherokee and Shawnee tribes to be driven out of their inherited home to lands west of the Mississippi River . His foremost such act as president was to formulate a pact with the state of Georgia that if Georgia were to let go its legal asserts to detection in lands to the west , then the U .S . forces...

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