It was purchased to build a railroad. Railroads basically built the nation we have today.

How would you like if someone asked to buy your house for a lower price than it was worth? Would you sell it? If not, then it's OK for the buyer to just take it by force?

What about defending the new American citizens who lived in Texas from the Mexicans. It was widely believed that they would declare war on us if we annexed Texas. Isn't protection of our citizens the reason we have a military?

Who are we to interpret God's will? I didn't read anything about the United States in the Bible...

Yeah, we need to be careful with that word. Genocide is when you intentionally try to kill an entire race of people. Jackson just relocated them. It's not the first time in history a group of people were forcefully relocated.

He never used force. He used the appearance of force, which is different. Threatening to dump someone is a lot different than actually doing it. That whole event actually did end in a compromise. Plus, you could easily argue that the United States is stronger as united states than individual states, so it was important for Jackson to keep them together. Lincoln kept us together, and I don't see any debate about him (yet).

Well, what's the job of the government? To do what the people want, or to do what they think is best for the people? It's a [representative] democracy, so the answer to that should be easy. Once the government thinks its job is to tell us what's best for us, we're effectively North Korea...

The Americans scalped the Natives? Hmm...I wonder where they got that idea from? Oh yeah, the Natives! #eye4aneye

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Also, he is the reason our country went into a depression. The depression led to a lack of westward expansion. Who knows how many years that might have sent our country back. We couldn't had flying cars by now.

When we think about historical figures, we should consider the society they lived in and were raised in. Saying people were "bad" because they owned slaves or wanted to remove Native Americans in the 1800s is like calling a person in India "stupid" because they don't speak English. People's knowledge and beliefs are a result of their upbringings and the society they live in. Right and wrong aren't always clear cut, especially in a historical lens.