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In As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs, Zinn focuses on the perpetual mistreatment of Native Americans in the United States.\u00a0 Andrew Jackson wanted to expand westward as the idea of manifest destiny started to burn through the hearts and minds of the American people.\u00a0 While many Americans have long believed that westward expansion was glorious, Zinn explains how that is not the case.\u00a0 Under Jackson and Van Buren, \u201cSeventy thousand Indians east of the Mississippi were forced westward.\u201d\u00a0 While Jackson is celebrated as a great president by some, many are now changing their tone on Jackson because of the mistreatment of Native Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Jackson\u2019s mistreatment of Native Americans can likely be attributed to a mixture of racism as well as American imperialism.\u00a0 One of his main arguments was that Native Americans just weren\u2019t fit for American culture.\u00a0 For example in a speech Jackson said,\u00a0 \u201cThey have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition. Established in the midst of another and a superior race, and without appreciating the causes of their inferiority or seeking to control them, they must necessarily yield to the force of circumstances and ere long disappear.\u201d\u00a0 Jackson\u2019s goal was always to make America the best country it could be, no matter the human cost.\u00a0 His utter disregard for human life is outright horrifying to me, and he committed a genocide out of greed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs, Zinn focuses on the perpetual mistreatment of Native Americans in the United States.\u00a0 Andrew Jackson wanted…<\/p>\n

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