... 's harsh treatment of Indians needed backing from the Constitution, or else he would seem like a tyrant. Jackson thought progress was inevitable and the Indian land was needed to bring civilization to those areas. Twelve million whites were more important than a few thousand savages. The main Indians being persecuted ... to take the land of the savage was okay as long as they were savage, but these tribes were not savage. They were skilled in the art of white civilization. Many had intermarried with white wives, lived in white man's houses, and had adopted the white man's dress. The Cher...

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... Onis Treaty of 1819 gave Florida to the U.S. in return for five million dollars and claims on present day Texas. Another big act that was passed was the Indian Removal Act. This called for the removal of all Indians east of the Mississippi border. As the U.S. began to expand into a bigger, dominant country, James Monroe ... fiction. Unlike Fenimore Catharine Maria Sedgwick made her female characters heroines. Fenimore always made his female characters dull and boring. Not only was writing changing, so was art. A group of artists emerged called the Hudson River School. Those artists usuall...

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