Thesis
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 passed by President Andrew Jackson called for the removal of the Southeastern Indians from their homelands and to be moved out West; the Indians right as human beings was ignored.
Rights and responsibilities
The United States of America stated in it's Constitution that all men were created equal. How did that statement differ between the Americans and the Indians? A lot. The Indians were regarded as a lesser people by the American Government and they owned property that the Americans wanted. So the Americans forcefully removed the Indians from their homelands without thinking about being humane. They mistreated the Indians as they forced them to depart their homeland where they lived for many years. Thousands of Indians were forced to travel from their ancestral lands to the Oklahoma Territory. This "death march" became known as the "Trail of Tears." As a result of the horrible conditions and treatment that the Indians were put through, approximately 3,500 hundred of them died along this "Trail of Tears." The rights that the Indians should have had as human beings were never granted to them. Their rights were simply ignored. What followed can only be described as a willful disregard for the human rights of the American Indian by the American Government.