In 1829, the 7th president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, issued a removal policy for the Native Americans. In 1838, the policy was endorsed and many Native American tribes such as the Cherokee, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminole were forced to give up their land and migrate to a different place. They were forced to walk by foot and some were dragged by chains by the US Army from the east of the Mississippi river to Oklahoma. This was migration was done so the American people would have more land and it would expand more land westward. It was a very devastating journey for the Indian tribes because many of the migrants faced disease, exhaustion, and hunger, thus named “Trail of Tears” by the Indian people. Andrew Jackson was the president who wanted the Indians to be removed. In 1830, he sent a transcript to the congress on Indian removal. In the message, Andrew Jackson states that the “benevolent policy of the governmentin relation to the removal is the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation.” Jackson says how the reds, also known as Native Americans, were occupying the South and West of some states and he wanted to send them away to states where “their existence may be prolonged and perhaps made perpetual.” Jackson believed that this policy would “open the whole territory between Tennessee on the north and Louisiana on the south and separate the Indians from immediate contact with settlements of whites." This letter to the congress was given so that the letter can be approved and the migration of the Indians would start. In 1838, General Winfield Scott and his army went to where the Cherokee people lived and read out address proclaiming to the migration. General Scott address states that “the President of the United States sent [him] with a powerful army to join that part of people who have established on the other side of Mississippi.” He also states that “the full moon of May is already on the wane, and before another shall have passed away, every Cherokee man, woman and child...must be in motion to join their brethren in the far West”, he wanted everyone in the tribes to know that every single person had to be in part of the migration. In this address, he makes it seem as if the solider are the friends of the Cherokee people by stating them as “My friends!” In the address, General Scott says that “Soldiers are as kind-hearted as brave” He also makes it seem as if the people of the tribe have so choice on what to do. “Will you then, by resistance, compel