#wish hed continue with this logic past the 19th century tho

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Andrew Jackson possessed enough blameworthy qualities to fill a demonology, and great relish is often taken, and maybe some anodyne achieved, by placing blame solely on him for the crime against humanity that is Indian removal. Yet the sources of Jackson’s policy lie in urges, at once territorial and military, that were inherent in creating the American nation. From Washington’s claims of desiring only peace and no Indian land, to Jefferson’s defining conquest as peacekeeping and removal as assimilation, much thoughtful official rhetoric regarding Indian rights marked the early national period, contradicted at every turn by the political and entrepreneurial actions taken by national officials. Jackson only collapsed that contradiction. His hustling age was tonally blunter than that of the founders, and he wouldn’t pretend to view Indian nations as sovereign. No president has ever put forth a policy of genocide. Yet thirty years after Andrew Jackson left office, General William Tecumseh Sherman, reporting to President Ulysses S. Grant on their efforts against the Plains Indians, felt free to put the policy this way: “even to their extermination, man, woman, and child.”

— William Hogeland, Autumn of the Black Snake: George Washington, Mad Anthony Wayne, and the Invasion That Opened the West