The national policy in effect by the Washington administration in 1790 was to supervise the Natives and assimilate the Indians into society. The U.S. government recognized the fact that natives were roaming the New World when the Spanish arrived in the 1500s and adopted policies accordingly. However, President Andrew Jackson's administrations forced the Natives to move west of the Mississippi River. Therefore, Jackson's presidency from 1829 to 1836 to remove the Natives represented a significant departure or change from previous administrations. Before 1830, the United States government did not aspire to obtain Indian lands, but rather Indians were given the right to be treated as nations, and protected their rights under the Constitution. According to Henry Knox's letter to President George Washington, “The Indians being the first occupants, possess the right to the land. It cannot be taken away from them except with their free consent, or with the right of conquest in the event of a just war” (Doc B). Furthermore, the United States believed that “intrusions into the lands of friendly Indian tribes not only constituted a violation of the law but were also in direct opposition to the government's policy toward its savage neighbor” (Doc G). the territories of the Indians. Therefore, this indicates that the US government did not want to take any risks and was quite cautious in their desire to obtain native land. Through President James Monroe's first annual message to Congress in 1817, the morality of the United States regarding the Land of the Natives was identified as "it is our [the United States'] duty to make new efforts for the preservation, improvement,... the territory in the middle of the paper... okee. However, Jackson was reluctant to believe the way the Supreme Court had interpreted the Constitution, which showed that his action was contrary to Americans' moral beliefs and was unconstitutional. By abandoning the established path of dealing with the natives that his predecessors had left him, however, Jackson was able to satisfy his interest in the west side of the land. Despite the court cases and moral values ​​that Americans already guide, Jackson forced the Indians to relocate from their lands. Without a doubt this act was clearly contrary to everything Americans believed before his presidency. Thus, Jackson's change in policy clearly confirms that “the Jackson administration's decision to move the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in 1830 was more of a change in policy than a simple reformulation of that national policy”..