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Letter from Jackson to the Seminole
After carefully reading the text of Andrew Jackson’s letter, respond to each of the following questions in complete sentences. Use evidence from the letter to support your answers.
Question
Response
What is the purpose of this letter?
The letter defines that the Seminoles will encounter death in Florida by extreme hunger or war. But if they left quietly and on their own free will to a nice, fruitful, country, the army would supply them with stuff for a safe move and assist them with settling down.
Why do you think President Jackson refers to the Seminole as “my children”?
Jackson starts this letter with the peaceful and commiserating expression “my children”, which is friendly but it shows that he has a certain outlook on the Indians and shows that he thinks of himself as like a father figure to
them. His point of view in relation to them is very affectionate yet unloving because of his serious tone close to the ending of the letter, in which Jackson stands firm with the fact that the military will take action hostile towards the Seminoles if they don’t depart from their land but he carries on with the fact that he views them as friends and he means no wrong.
In what ways was Jackson telling the truth?
Jackson talks over the circumstances in which they were living at the time,
highlighting how starved and poor they were, how there were no creatures for them to hunt, and how communities of white people were all throughout them. He asserts that it is important that the Seminoles join the creeks in the area in Mississippi, accurately reminding them of the
treaty of Payne’s landing between them and colonel Gadsden. This allusion is proof that American’s were quickly populating America and did not want the Seminoles to get in their way.
In what ways was he not telling the Seminole the truth? Explain why the statements are untrue.
Jackson was not revealing truth when he said that the Seminole would be in a situation of hunger if they stayed and that they would carry out deeds
of robbery against white subjects, and that they would be pulled out by force if they refused to go. These declarations were deliberately made to frighten the Seminole into departing from their place of residence.
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How was the Seminole experience during Indian removal similar to and different from that of other Native American groups?
Both the Sauk and the Seminole put up a vigorous battle, but the Seminoles did hold out longer then the Sauks because the Sauks lost and had to leave.
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