The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears

The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears research paper is to be written as an argument that the Americans were excessively brutal to the Cherokee/Choctaw Indians in American History, and the Trail of Tears, was an unjust and unfair way to gain land.

Its main focus is to take the Indian side and try to explain that the Americans were unfair, unjust, and downright savage when they pursued the Trail of Tears, which resulted in the deaths and mistreatment of thousands of Indians. Treaties were broken, and Andrew Jackson mercilessly moved the Indians as far as he could and as quickly as he could. The paper should cite many examples and times that the Americans were excessive

The thesis, basically along the line of "Even after the Cherokee/Choctaw people were posed as a non threat, adopted the ways of the settlers, and became civilized and compliant, Andrew Jackson and his men decide to pursue the Trail of Tears and unjustly, unfairly, and brutally remove the Cherokee people while destroying there beautiful people and culture". That is just an idea, please write the thesis as you think fits best. I want you to take what I have loosely and apply to the best of your knowledge, I trust your judgment and skills.

At the end of the essay I would like that thesis to be tied together with the purpose of the course, which is american dominance. Focus on answering why Jackson acted the way he did and aim it toward the fact that America was a capitalist power-driven country at the time, and they wanted the Indians out of the way because God gave them that land and Manifest Destiny proves that its theirs rather than the Indians.

Discuss the communities of the Cherokee/Choctaw, tell of how they adopted many of the settlers ways of life, and how this is ironic since they settlers gave them everything and then eventually ripped it away from them and killed them.
Lean in the direction of the Tragedy of the situation and the sadness behind it all, hence the literal translation of the "Trail of Tears", also discuss Jackson his impact on the Indians (he was president and made decisions to kill).

At the end of the paper, even though I am defending the Indian side and trying to show the brutality of the Americans, I want to show that the reason America did this is because they are just that type of country. They have a "take what you want mentality" and it has carried on for years and years, but Americans think its ok because they believe that no matter how brutal the act, the ends justifies the means and as long as America is ok, everything is good. Use examples of this. Emphasize the capitalist, powerful hold they have on everything and relate this to the "it doesn't matter as long as we can move west and own all the land" mentality that Andrew Jackson has during the Trail of Tears. The course focuses on Americas dominance and their rise to global power, so please incorporate that towards the end of the essay, basically tie the reason that we were so savage during the Trail of Tears should tie together with an overall attitude of Americans believing that "god wants them there" "manifest destiny". Americans believe their actions, no matter how violent or unnecessary is one step towards keeping them the world power and the trail of tears is one example of many where it shows that America forces themselves when they want something done, because the believe its okay to do something wrong on a small scale for the greater overall American dream.