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I do not believe the original statements presents a full picture the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians. I have revised the statement to read: In preparing for the Cherokee removal, state and federal officials were motivated by the irrational racist notion that the Native Americans were “uncivilized dependents incapable of managing their own affairs”, and the potential economic windfall that gold and cotton would provide. These two factors ignited their desire to seize the native's land. As early as the 16th century the European settlers bore disdain for Native Americans. Even the Declaration of Independence refers to them as “merciless Indian savages”. This opinion of them was woven into the norms of the early American culture and validated the rationale to simply remove them from their lands as if they were pests that needed extermination. The gold rush and soon to be King Cotton would amplify the urgency to seize the land. A small faction of the Cherokee National Council called the Treaty Party, held secret meetings with federal officials, and ignorantly negotiated the unauthorized Treaty of New Echota, which would relocate the Cherokee to the Indian Territory for $5 million and equivalent landmass that they were giving up. The approach I would take to my research topic, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, would be to ensure a concise thesis statement. I could compare how President Jackson ignored the order from the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia that stated that individual states cannot interfere with Native’s tribal sovereignty and how the 15 th Amendment, which gave African American men the right to vote was circumvented by Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy test, and outright intimidation and violence....