Although racist equality was rarley enforced by the United States gorvenment in the past, Andrew Jackson reformulated the unwritten guidelines of Indian relations. For one of the first times in the short American history, the intolerance for Indian "savages" became apparent. The authority of the Persident over the congress also manifested.
In 1791, President Washington made the Treaty of Holston with the Cherokees. In this, he promised "perpetual peace" between the cherokee and America. In return he would move them out the territory he wanted, hold the only Cherokee treaty, and control all Cherokee trade. President Jefferson's Intercouse Act of 1802 attempeted to restrict all American-Indian contact by making it illeg
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