2 next please rhetorically analyze andrew jacksons

2. Next, please rhetorically analyze Andrew Jackson’s speeches
(inaugural and second annual message.) How would you analyze the
overall language/tone Jackson uses in his speeches? How does his
language/tone change with each speech? Who is his intended
audience in each speech, and what are his goals regarding dealings
with American Indian tribes?
3. What kind of patterns or trajectory do you notice in Jackson's two
speeches?
4. After, please rhetorically analyze Andrew Jackson's" Letter to the
Cherokee". What about the tone, intended audience, and purpose in
the letter? What were some key quotes/parts that stood out to you,
and why?
5. Lastly, what aspects of the chapter "Jackson's White Republic"
stood out to you? What, in your opinion, was a key passage or
quote, and why? What are your overall thoughts/reactions to this
week’s materials?

The Indian Removal plans and policies emerged from the Louisiana Purchase. The
Indigenous Nations weren’t consulted, and that land was home of the Sioux, Cheyenne,
Arapaho, Crow, Pawnee, Osage, and Comanche. What followed was Jefferson’s “Indian Policy”
and “Civilization program” that would try to drive the Indian people into debt with the United
States so they would have to sell their land. Quickly it progressed into calling for removal and
Jackson was at the root of it.
In Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural speech I believe he has an optimistic and persuasive
tone in order to assure the American population that what he is doing is good and for the
people. In this speech he claims he wants friendly foreign affairs, he assures the general
population that he wants peace and not to enlarge the military. His language and tone shifts in
his second Annual Message to condescending and mocking of the Indigenous people. He calls
them “savage hunters” and hopes that their decay will result in “[casting] off their savage habits
and become an interesting, civilized, and Christian community.” I believe his intended audience
in the second speech is for the expanding population, he is encouraging them to take their new
home.
I notice a pattern of white racism and manifest destiny in his speeches. He also hides the
terror of the genocide in the ‘story’ of a birth of a nation. This tone he develops in these two
speeches will soon be the overall narrative of the story that is developed by presidents and
historians later on.
In Andrew Jackson’s letter to the Cherokee’s has a pathetic and sensationalistic tone. His
audience was to the resistance and all indigenous people. His goal was to convince the
indigenous people to submit and conform to US society and be “civilized.” It stood out to me
that Andrew Jackson kept referring to the Cherokees as “friends”, when he slaughtered them at
every chance he got. He also kept mentioning that the they only have one solution, and that
was to abide by the US and to take his ‘advice’.
It shocked me how much US leaders set the Indigenous people up to end up in debt to
the US government, it was well thought out in every small move. The US truly wanted pure
destruction of the Indigenous people. It shocked me that Jackson made it clear that his “goal
was to extermination of the Muskogee Nation, their rhetoric claimed self-defense.” (pg 99) This
pattern carried on throughout his presidency and then to future presidents, US poets, writers,
and historians.