Andrew Jackson wins the presidency of the United States. Motivated by his own racial prejudice against First Nations and a desire to appease white settlers, Jackson will make a hypocritical move in his role as the president; he allows individual states like Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi to have dominance over federal law which prohibits the states from encroaching on First Nation land. “State jurisdiction outlawed tribal governments and subjected Indians instead to local officials for whom they could not vote and to local courts in which they could neither sue nor testify, leaving them helpless to prevent seizure of their lands by white intruders,” (Merchant 142). Jackson will then propose the removal of tribes from their homes as the only mode of assistance the federal government can offer.