James Monroe And Native American Policies
James Monroe became the fifth president of the United States in 1817, and served till 1825. His Native American policies are worth a mention. Under his orders, Andrew Jackson led a campaign in Georgia against the Seminole (Native American People of Florida) and Creek Indians in 1817. Jackson also was commissioned with preventing Spanish Florida from sheltering runaway slaves. This was called the First Seminole War. The result of the war was the effective control over East Florida. |
In October 1820, James Monroe sent Andrew Jackson and Thomas Hinds as representatives of the United States to carry out a treaty where the Choctaw were asked to surrender to the United States a part of their land which is now located in present day Mississippi. The Choctaws did not want to give up their land as the land they believed that the government was giving them in exchange was of an inferior quality. Jackson finally succeeded by getting the reluctant Choctaw chiefs to finally sign the Doak's Stand treaty after resorting to threats and blackmail.
In 1824, some of the chief leader of the Choctaws namely Apuckshunubbee, Pushmataha, and Mosholatubbee, went to Washington City (present day Washington, D.C.) to talk about European-Americans' squatting on Choctaw lands. They asked for eviction of the settlers or at least, for the government to compensate them financially for the land they were losing to the settlers. Finally in 1825, the Treaty of Washington City was signed and the Choctaws had to give up more of their land to the United States.
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