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Originally Posted by cal828
I think I can see why some might view him as a murderer considering that the indians of the South East were removed from their land and dispossesed of that land and forcibly moved West of the Mississippi resulting in the deaths of 5,000 of them on the "trail of tears." But having said that, at least the land west of the Mississippi wasn't so horrible. Some of that land that indians live on further west is hardly fit for rattlesnakes and scorpions.
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Yeah, i know why he is viewed as such. I once also thought he was deserving of every appellation assigned to him...
However, as in so many things, there is more to the story. Jackson moved the native americans to remove a ready tool of american enemies, such as england and france. He did what he did based on what he thought was best fir the u.s. truth be told, when one considers the why, what argument can someone make that jackson was wrong?
Could thing have been handled better? Sure. Did he have every reason to think his actions were justified? Absolutely.