The Trail of Tears is a particular episode in the general
movement towards native peoples in the United States. Andrew Jackson and others were
intent on opening up the lands under Indian control for settlement and imposed laws and
restrictions on the Native Americans to the point that they were willing to sign
agreements that forced them to move west. But they were seen as an obstacle to progress
and treated as poorly as or even worse than the slave population in the United States at
the time.
One could suggest that this was an indication
that the people of the United States that considered themselves citizens had quickly
forgotten the idea of people being free to determine their own destiny (something that
purportedly drove them to rebel against the British) and began to practice similar
habits as the British did during their colonialization efforts.
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