...As the United States entered the period of Jackson’s presidency, the country was progressing at a rapid rate. In order to do so, westward expansion was viewed as not only a necessity, but a right the country undoubtedly possessed. The United States inherited the European “‘right of discovery’” and used this notion to carry out a brutal ethnic cleansing, stripping the American Indians of their culture, land, and people in drastic number (66). Jackson’s way of thinking resonated with the people of his country at the time, many of whom desired land. The historian Theda Perdue provides a modern reflection of the cruelty toward such a fundamental group of the country in her essay entitled “Indian Removal.” On the other hand, Andrew Jackson himself...
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...History 11 exam 2 study guide 1) Explain the structure of the US Gov. under the new constitution and describe the compromises that led to its ratification? What problems do you think remained for the united states under this constitution? The structure of the US Gov under the new constitution sets out the powers of the United States does and what the State powers are as well. In addition Madison is setting up a competion between the US Gov and the States. The US gov can coin money, make taxes, make treaties. State Powers can create taxes, make treaties, but can’t coin money. Many of the powers of the States are often duplicated from the Us Gov. powers. Also there is the 3 branch concept which consist of Executive branch (President, Enforce laws),Legislative Branch (Congress, Make Laws), and Judicial Branch( Interept Laws). These branches will also compete with each other. Example of congress fighting with the president on raising the national debt ceiling. In addition the Judicial branch will sometimes get involved because they have the power to declare a law constitutional or unconstitutional which is the final say. In addion the Judicial Branch can also interpret laws made by the legislative Branch.The compromise that led to the ratification are Virginia Plan:being a large state, because virgina had a larger population.the viginians did not think it was fair for a state to have 3times less population to have a equal vote as a larger state such as virginia.They wanted more...
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...Jacksonian Democrats did in fact keep the U.S. together during Jackson’s Presidency, and successfully protected the rights stated in the Constitution except the Indian removal act of 1830.` The Natives American Indians posed as a problem for Jackson because he didn’t know what to do with the ones living in the south, he failed to protect the Indians rights. He decided to remove them and relocate them west of the Mississippi River, to Oklahoma on the famous trail known as the Trail of Tears. Jackson stated he did this to save to Indian culture, but really it was to forcibly remove them from their land and give it to White Farmers. Did the Indians have rights like the white males? Jackson kind of laugh that off and in doing so failed to uphold the Constitution, because he didn’t see them as Americans (which they were not, they were considered a “domestic, dependent nation”). An example of this is when John Marshall head of the Supreme Court decided it was unconstitutional to remove the Indians from their lands and Jackson said, “John Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it!” This shows his absolute power, and this is why people referred to him as “King Andrew” and how he believed that the constitution didn’t apply to him. Politically, Jackson cared about the common man and a government ran by the people. An example of this is when he used his Veto power to Veto the charter for the Bank of...
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...Andrew Jackson’s effect in the American politics Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, is one of the most important and significant presidents in the history of the United States. As a vice-president and president (1824 to 1832) he reshaped and redirected the course of American expansion and democracy. Jackson believed the president is the direct representative of the people. He was the man of action and shrewd politician. He knew how to manipulate men and could be affable or abusive or abusive as the occasion demanded.(nation of nations, 2005 ) Andrew Jackson came to personify the new democratic culture. Through his forceful leadership he significantly expanded the powers of the presidency. Jackson threatened to use force against South Carolina when it tried to nullify the federal tariff using john c. Calhoun’s theory of nullification that is that a state convention could nullify a federal law. He vetoed a bill to recharter the second bank of the United States and destroyed the bank by removing its federal deposits. He called for legislation to remove native peoples west to of the Mississippi voiding treaties found legitimate by the Supreme Court during the winter months of 1835-36 to ensure the greatest suffering to these peoples. One quarter of the tribal people died in transit to Oklahoma during this move. Jacksonian era went through the deep and rapid changes. The revolution in markets brought both economic expansion and periodic depressions as its citizens competed...
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...James Monroe 01April 2013 Advanced Reading/Writing Outline – James Monroe I. Introduction a. Was the fifthpresident of the United States b. Purpose of the paper i. Early life and early political career ii. James Monroe’s presidencyachievements iii. Post-presidency iv. Time and place of death II. Early life and early political career a. Family b. Education and military service c. Early political career i. Virginia politics ii. Ambassador to France iii. Governor of Virginia iv. Secretary of State and Secretary of War III. James Monroe’spresidency achievements a. Presidential elections of 1816 and 1820 b. The Cumberland Road Bill c. Indigenous American policies d. Administration and Cabinet e. Foreign policy i. Monroe Doctrine ii. The acquisition of Florida IV. Post-presidency V. Thoughts on slavery VI. Time and place of death VII. Conclusion a. Early life and early political career b. James Monroe’s presidency achievements c. Post-presidency d. Time and place of death James Monroe is remembered for his victorious win to become the 5th president of America. His life both private and political was closely monitored and documented due to...
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...Timeline Part I NOTE: Before starting the Timeline project please refer to the "Example Timeline Matrix" document. Instructions: Complete the matrix by providing the Time Period/Date(s) in column B, and the Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History in column C. See complete instructions in the Syllabus for the Module 1 assignment entitled, “Timeline Part I.”NOTE: The timeline project does not need to be submitted to turnitin. NOTE:Please write your answers in a clear and concise manner. Limit your submission of the Timeline Part I up to 250 words per topic/subtopic. For example, if a topic is divided into 3 subtopics, you may write a maximum of 250 per subtopic listed. Be sure to cite all sources. Major Event/Epoch in American History | Time Period/Date(s) | Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History | 1) Describe three different American Indian cultures prior to colonization. | 1200-1900 | The Anasazi, the Iroquois and the Algonkians all inhabited parts of the US prior to colonization. The Anasazi had much of the Southwest like Arizona and New Mexico. The Iroquois were very large and were actually divided into many different nations with different traditions and dialects. Lastly, the Algonkians were proficient in both hunting as well as other agricultural activities. | 2) The effects of British colonization on the Native Americans. | 17th Century | At first, the British were not a threat because they...
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...migrants from all around the world come to America for a better life or better opportunities. What ever the reason migrants left their homeland for whether it was due to famine, lack of economic success, or escaping a debt, most migrants left because they had chosen this path for a better life. Unfortunately for one group of peoples, this choice was not left for them to decided and they had to suffer the loss of their sacred homeland which they had lived on for ages before any European had set foot in the Americas. These people were the Native American nations of the southeastern part of the the U.S., and the name of this migration was given the name the Trail of Tears. The migration of the Trail of Tears started i when President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1930, which was setup up to rid the new American land of all natives and free it for all the new English settlers. This gradual process of removing these 46,000 natives tribes took place over a seven year span, between 1930-1937. This inter-regional migration of the the Native American tribes included the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and the Seminole peoples. They were all from the southeastern areas of the newly colonized United States. Though the natives were not removed immediately when the English settlers arrived to America, because most of them did feel the natives did have a right to their land. For example, when the Europeans arrived in the early 1540’s the Cherokee peoples still lived in the...
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...CHEROKEE INDIANS “They took the whole Cherokee Nation…” by Miya Oliver 4th Grade Saint Agnes School I picked the Cherokee Indians to do my research paper on and when I was looking for stories about them we (me and my dad) found some good things. When we searched we saw a lot of good pictures. We saw some good stories and a sad story about these Indians. |The Cherokee Indians that I picked were of the Southeast part of the North American Continent and were known as the Cherokee | |Nation. The map below shows us where they lived. | |Southeast Culture Area | |[pic] | |[pic] | |[pic] | |Native Americans of the Southeast culture area were skilled farmers who settled in villages along river valleys. They cultivated| |maize, beans and squash, and frequently changed their fields and village sites when soils became depleted. Southeast peoples | |hunted, fished, and foraged wild plant foods to fill out their diet. ...
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...his strict, unfeeling ways of dealing with the Indians. Old Hickory, for his strict ways of commanding soldiers under him. King Jackson, to his political enemies. Whatever you call him, even though he was our seventh president, he was the first in many ways. Unlike other presidents, born into privilege and money, Jackson was born into poverty on the western frontier. This greatly influenced his goals once he got into presidency. Jackson ran as the common man, and had a strong distrust of wealthy Northeasterners, which would cause him many conflicts in his later years. Jackson was a shoo-in for the election of 1828, because he was a war hero, and because of the campaign “Corrupt Bargainer vs Military Chieftan”. He ran with John C. Calhoun, who had switched political parties to campaign with him. When Jackson was elected, he relied heavily on the advice of his buddies in Tennessee. So much so that he fired the entire previous president’s government workers and put his supporters there instead. Adhering to Jackson was the Democratic Party, and the National Republicans (Whigs) against him. Disposing of the unpopular caucus system, and the practice of nominating committees came in. This system was popular with Jackson’s supporters because of the fact he was the ‘common man’ and this system could get yeomen into office as well as rich politicians. Jackson also supported states’ rights, a characteristic that gained him support of much of the Southern states. In 1828, the Tariff...
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...Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was born into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means, near the end of the colonial era. He was born somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina. During the American Revolutionary War Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. He was captured, at age 13, and mistreated by his British captors. He later became a lawyer, and in 1796 he was in Nashville and helped found the state of Tennessee. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U. S. Senate. In 1801, Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tennessee militia, which became his political as well as military base. Jackson owned hundreds of slaves who worked on the Hermitage plantation which he acquired in 1804. Jackson killed a man in a duel in 1806, over a matter of honor regarding his wife Rachel. Jackson gained national fame through his role in the War of 1812, where he won decisive victories over the Indians and then over the main British invasion army at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson's army was sent to Florida where, without orders, he deposed the small Spanish garrison. This led directly to the treaty which formally transferred Florida from Spain to the United States. Nominated for president in 1824, Jackson narrowly lost to John Quincy Adams. Jackson's supporters then founded what became...
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...to that end, Americans united. With economic proliferation, political stabilization, and social prosperity, the time between 1815 and1825 ushered in countless new ideas that highlighted American greatest like never before. It is doubtless that America faced challenges during that time painted singularly with “good feelings” and that the general undertones and overtones bespeaking prosperity did not comprise in its entirety the American status quo. In spite of this, many instances do speak in accordance with such positivity. Prominent amongst these forces was the nationalist movement that magnified following the American victory in the War of 1812, of which Andrew Jackson played a major role. In actuality, the War of 1812, declared by Madison, was a complete and utter mistake. But the efforts of men such as Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans and Horseshoe Bend still managed to tug at the American patriotic...
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...Andrew Jackson: The American Presidents. By Sean Wilentz. Princeton University: Published by Times Books. January 1st, 2006. ISBN: 0-8050-6925-9. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Pp.xiii, 166. Fearless, principled, and damaged. Andrew Jackson can be considered one of the most controversial presidents, or even an outlaw, amongst the U.S. Jackson was a strong advocate for war and protecting his country. His early life was without a doubt, dissimilar from many presidents. Although, the traumatizing experiences he endured will be the fuel that would soon spark the flames of Jackson’s journey to glory. It was Jackson’s mother envisioned his leader like abilities early, in which she spent her last dime on his education. In 1779, Jackson and his brother were exposed early to the brutal tactics of the American Revolutionary war. The betrayal of a local Waxhaw loyalty led to their capture by British troops and forced to clean boots. The refusing Jackson was sliced over the head with a sword. They both undertook many health problems (including smallpox), which would eventually lead to the death of his brother. Shortly after, his mother died which left Jackson orphaned at 14. Jackson attracted many different jobs before finally settling in Tennessee, as a public prosecutor in 1787. With his salary being the 2nd highest in the state, He continued to climb up the political ladder and gain respect from locals. With much passion about the military, Jackson gained national reputation from his...
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...Madison | Member of the Constitutional Convention and the U.S. House of Representatives, Secretary of State under Jefferson. | March 4, 1809- March 3, 1817 | Democratic-Republican | Declares war on England , had to re build Washington after it was burned when it was captured. | 5. James Monroe | Member of Continental Congress, he was a senator, Secretary of State under Madison. | March 4, 1817-March 3, 1825 | Democratic-Republican | The Missouri Compromise and the United Sates obtains Florida. | 6. John Quincy Adams | Secretary of State Under Monroe, Commissioner at Treaty of Ghent. | March 4, 1825- March 3, 1829 | Democratic-Republican | Was elected president even though he didn't get the most popular or electoral votes | 7. Andrew Jackson | Member of house of U.S. Representatives, he was a senator, and he governed Florida. | March 4 , 1829- March 3, 1837 | Democrat | Establishes spoils system and cabinet system, Authorized the Indian Removal Act of 1850, Vetoed recharging of 2nd bank so the Whig party was formed....
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...The Hawaiian Islands had a chief, but after the first Europeans set foot, they started changing the traditional ways. Soon Kalakaua was the next on the throne and he was forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which made him powerless and it got rid of most of the Native Hawaiian voters. Later, his sister, Queen Lilikalani, tried to make a new constitution to get rid of the Bayonet Constitution, but a group of white businessmen and politicians stopped her. And that committee threw her off the throne and started their own government, which President Cleveland disagreed with. And he was determined to put Lilikalani back on her throne. But the white men also made a treaty with the Senate when McKinley became president. And it was in favor of annexation so the natives had protests groups and defeated the treaty and they won. But that was short-lived because when the Spanish-American War started, Congress quickly voted to annex Hawaii and Hawaii became a U.S. territory in 1900. And 59 years later, they became the 50th State. I do not support the annexation of Hawaii and I think it was unfair. The U.S. even threatened the chief and took away the rights of the natives. So, the natives didn’t have a voice to stand up against the U.S. So, the United States made them powerless and took charge when they had no rights to. Even when the Hawaiian Natives protested and defeated the treaty favoring annexation, they still got taken over and made into a U.S. territory. When everything was going...
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...The state of Franklin was originally was for setters to feel secure. When living in South Carolina they felt they owed allegiance to North Carolina. They built their own schools and courthouses, and defended themselves from Indian attacks with no support. According to the Creation and Failure of the State of Franklin,” Due to the Confederation government’s inability to collect taxes from states, one of the most effective ways for states to pay their debts was to cede, or give up, their western land holdings to the national government.” Another reason is, According to the Creation and Failure of the State of Franklin,” Through the Franklinites managed to beat back the Cherokee, the state all but collapsed as laws went unenforced, taxes went uncollected, and courthouses failed to meet during its final 15 months of existence.” The state of Franklin officially ceased to exist in June 1789, because of the new United States Constitution replaced Articles of Confederation. North Carolina also, officially ceded its western land, including the state of Franklin. In addition, the Weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation was one of the main reason for the failures of the states. The Confederation government’s inability to collect taxes from states. One of the most effective ways for states to pay their debts was to cede. North Carolina opened up its western lands for private sale in 1783. “Settlers and wealthy speculators flooded the region known as East Tennessee the land was finally...
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