Indian Removal ActWord Count: 1203Joshua Shaw05/20/16History BM. Morse's Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed to remove all Indians from their land to give to white settlers who wanted the land it was fertile and the towns were becoming overpopulated. The government felt it would be better for the Indians to move them because white people were going onto Indian reservations and sometimes killing Indians. An exile soldier said this in a letter to his child on his eightieth birthday: "I saw the Defenseless Cherokees were arrested and dragged from their homes and taken to the point with the bayonet in the palisades. And in the cold of the pouring rain, one October morning, I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and forty-five wagons and heading west. This statement from the soldiers proves how cruel the United States was to the Indians. This soldier's story is very important because it tells the truth about what happened during this brutal kidnapping. Many true accounts of this event do not exist, they have been altered just enough to make them not seem as bad as they were. Many of these documents say things like "it was for them" or "it was the only option we had." The real reason behind this act of America was greed, they wanted their fertile lands. The government itself said that they were doing this for the survival of the Indian race and if that was the case they would not have moved them to a place they had never been, a place they knew nothing about, a place thousands of miles away where they could not survive, let alone thrive. Instead, they moved them to a dry desert like land they didn't want. The government said it would pay for ...... middle of paper ...... stand out sooner than it already had. What we did to them was not kind and that will never change. Some of them survived and their race became one with ours, but it could happen again, maybe not for years, but it's possible. We'll do what we think is best almost every time and if you have something, we want to be ready to get it taken when we need it. Works Cited Cave, Alfred A. "Abuse of Power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830." Jacksonian Democracy and Historians. Gainesville: University of Florida, 1964. N. pag. Print.Remini, Robert V. “The Indian Removal Act.” Andrew Jackson and his Indian Wars. New York: Viking, 2001. N. pag. Print."10.8 A Soldier Remembers the Trail of Tears." One soldier remembers the trail of tears. Np, and Web. March 23, 2016. “Trail of Tears.” Room 32. Np, nd Web. March 24, 2016.Np, nd Web. May 20 2016.