...tribe’s being relocated from our home’s to Oaklahoma. As early as 1804, the topic had been discussed of the removal of trive’s from the south eastern side of the Mississippi to the west side of the river. A large portion of our tribe’s had already been moved between the year’s of 1825 threw 1842, when relocation was forced upon us by the federal government ("Ancestory", 2006). In later year’s these regions of land would be named eastern Oaklahoma and Weastern Arkansas, although this was not known at the time. A White man by the the name of President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian removal act in 1830. Jackson, who had been trying to remove us from our land for a great many year’s had been and often had been successful in removing our tribe and many other’s from their land and homes, even prior to him becoming president. Often he was brutal in his attempts and had put a lot of crusades together in order to achieve this success. He wished to remove us inorder to take our land and give it to wealthy white cotton farmer’s. After, Jackson became president he really worked hard at taking our land and thus forcing us to relocate to Places such as Oaklahoma and other states. The white settler’s despite any law, wanted our land because it was beautiful, processed gold that would make them wealthy, had rich soil that would allow them to grow better crop’s and the many other benefits that our land would offer,...
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...tribe’s being relocated from our home’s to Oaklahoma. As early as 1804, the topic had been discussed of the removal of trive’s from the south eastern side of the Mississippi to the west side of the river. A large portion of our tribe’s had already been moved between the year’s of 1825 threw 1842, when relocation was forced upon us by the federal government ("Ancestory", 2006). In later year’s these regions of land would be named eastern Oaklahoma and Weastern Arkansas, although this was not known at the time. A White man by the the name of President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian removal act in 1830. Jackson, who had been trying to remove us from our land for a great many year’s had been and often had been successful in removing our tribe and many other’s from their land and homes, even prior to him becoming president. Often he was brutal in his attempts and had put a lot of crusades together in order to achieve this success. He wished to remove us inorder to take our land and give it to wealthy white cotton farmer’s. After, Jackson became president he really worked hard at taking our land and thus forcing us to relocate to Places such as Oaklahoma and other states. The white settler’s despite any law, wanted our land because it was beautiful, processed gold that would make them wealthy, had rich soil that would allow them to grow better crop’s and the many other benefits that our land would offer,...
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...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 Appalachian mountain area....
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...Indian Removal Act of 1830 Essay By: Hayden Yackeren Although many people thought the Native Americans were the Americans allies, they weren’t always. They took the side of our enemies during wars that changed history. One war in particular, 620,000 lives were brutally taken from their friends and family, and the Cherokee were a big part of that. Later, we took over their land and told them to stay and abide by our laws, or move to a reservation. Most Indians went to the reservation, which was bigger than where they previously resided, but the Cherokee were a stubborn tribe who didn’t want to do either. The movement to get the Indians out was called the Indian Removal act of 1830. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was justified because the Indians got to keep a majority of their...
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...Compared to the early 1800's standards, President Andrew Jackson did not demonstrate democracy on numerous occasions. He violated the Constitution by overriding the Supreme Court's decision to let Indians remain untouched in their land, and kicked the Indian tribes out of Georgia and sent them on the notorious Trail of Tears (Doc 8). Jackson again failed to practice democracy when he assigned his supporters as the nation's leaders, even though some of them were thieves and hurt the people. He was being nondemocratic and was not thinking of everyone beyond the common white man. Although some would argue that Andrew Jackson was democratic when he paid special attention to the poor, he failed to make both the powerful and the common people...
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...edge of the Appalachian Mountains, the geological definition of the Blue Ridge province spreads westward to the Ridge and Valley area; The Blue Ridge encompasses also far north as Pennsylvania. The blue Ridge is also contained with the greater Smoky Mountains. They did have access to many unique foods that would go onto to change the basis of their cooking which in turn changes their culture. Food is a main aspect of culture that you cannot unentwined from each other. Any pre-contact culture that the Cherokee would have had would have been solely based on their access to different types of foods, and how that access lead to the establishment of culture through the easy access to said foods. This culture was put to the test when the Indian Removal act was passed after gold...
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...When analyzing “Andrew Jackson’s Speech to Congress on Indian removal” there are several different lenses that you can read and view the story through. One reoccuring critical literary theory throughout the text is post-colonialism. Andrew jackson in a message to congress is explaining the dilemma of relocating native americans is an obvious win win for both america and the natives. While explaining his methods and reasons many glimpses of a post colonial mindset come though as the main idea of his speech. He often uses derogatory stereotypical remarks. For example the cherokees were forced to muddle through the west by the american gov. on a route that would eventually become the trail of tears. Many died and others were left without family,...
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...some negatives as well. Jackson removed Native Americans from their homeland by signing the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which created the “Trail of Tears,” vetoed the National Bank (B.U.S), and was pro-slavery. Although a common man himself, Jackson became successful as president. This was one of his biggest motives to support the common man, rather than the wealthy, whom he believed shouldn’t have all of the power. One of the reasons Jackson removed Native Americans was because he didn’t consider them as American citizens. How democratic was Andrew Jackson? Before we answer this, let’s find out what democracy truly means. By definition, democracy is a form of government made up of the equality and voice of the people. To Jackson, democracy meant the all branches & agencies of government must listen to and follow the wishes of the people. So was Andrew Jackson democratic, undemocratic, or both? Perhaps he was democratic in some ways and undemocratic in others. Andrew Jackson was a supporter in Indian removal. However, he also had a soft spot; he adopted a Creek Indian boy named Lyncoya. Jackson didn’t consider Indians as American people; this somewhat made it easier to remove Native Americans from their homeland. Not only this, but he made it voluntary to leave, but if they were within limits of the states, they must be subject to their laws. (Document 8). Jackson also removed Indians from the land of their fathers/people. He didn’t even consider that they might not be familiar...
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...politics and the presidency. Within eight years, he melded the unstructured coalition of personal followers who had elected him into the country's most durable and successful political party, an electoral machine whose organization and discipline would serve as a model for all others. At the same time, his controversial conduct in office galvanized opponents to organize the Whig party. The Democratic Party was Jackson's child; the national two-party system was his legacy. Jackson's drive for party organization was spurred by his own difficulties with Congress. Unlike other famously strong Presidents, Jackson defined himself not by enacting a legislative program but by thwarting one. In eight years, Congress passed only one major law, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, at his behest. During this time Jackson vetoed twelve bills, more than his six predecessors combined. One of these was the first "pocket veto" in American history. Jackson strengthened himself against Congress by forging direct links with the voters. His official messages, though delivered to Congress, spoke in plain and powerful language to the people at large. Reversing a tradition of executive deference to legislative supremacy, Jackson boldly cast himself as the people's tribune, their sole defender against special interests and their followers in Congress. In other ways,...
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...Native Americans believed this land was the land their ancestors had, and their God had given to them. The southern Indians had plenty of land about twenty five million acres, virtually the entire inland south and were more numerous than the Northern Indian people. By the end of the decade very few Native Americans still remained in this land because the government forced them to leave their land because the white wanted their territory. White settles wanted Indian land because they wanted to grow cotton, and there was gold where the Cherokees inhabited. The Native Americans were forced to walk thousands of miles to Indian Territory, many of them died of diseases or hunger, and this is why it became known as the trail of tears. Most Native Americans belonged to the five tribes which were the: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. The Choctaw were the first to negotiate for their land with the federal government in 1830 they agreed to give up their property for western land. The government in the other hand had no experience in transporting large amount of people from state to state so on the journey to their new land many Native Americans died from exhaustion, exposure, malnutrition and disease while traveling. In 1828 Andrew Jackson was elected president and he wanted Cherokees to disappear. In 1830 Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which gave the government the right to exchange the Native Americans land and send them east of the Mississippi to Oklahoma...
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...his stubborn support of Indian removal provoked controversy not only in the Indian tribes, but also among the American community. Jackson's refusal to respect the independence of the Cherokee tribe, allowed the state of Georgia to assert its jurisdiction over the Cherokees. With Andrew Jackson's assistance, Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed which authorized the relocation of eastern Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River. President Andrew Jackson was the main supporter of the removal of Indian tribes in order to give their lands to whites. Cherokee Nation was forced from its land, mainly as a result of the discovery of gold within their territory. Both the white Americans and the Cherokees had various opinions on Indian removal - some opposed and many supported it with a range of different arguments. Insatiable craving for foreign soil remained the primary cause, even though many people believed that the removal of Indians was the only way to save them from the extinction. While the Indians lived in close proximity to whites, they died as a result of...
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...Andrew Jackson is believed to be one of the most evil presidents of America. He unethically forced multiple Native American tribes to leave their homeland onto what is now Oklahoma Territory. This movement was called the Trail of Tears. Jackson also ended the second bank of America because he thought that was what his supporters wanted. On the other hand, he was a people’s president and he gave people of the lower class a voice. Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act forced many Native American’s out of their homes onto an unknown land and they were not even promised to make it alive. This route was called the Trail of Tears due to the amount of torture Native Americans were forced to endure. Native Americans were given two choices, to either...
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...An outsider’s understanding of Mao requires a feat of imagination, first to recognize the nature of his supremacy. Mao had two careers, one as rebel leader, one as an updated emperor. He had gained the power of the latter but evidently retained the self-image of the former. Because authority in China came form the top down, as was recognized even in the mass line, once the CCP had taken power its leader became sacrosanct, above all the rest of mankind, not only the object of a cult of veneration but also the acknowledge superior of everyone in the organization. Such of the CCP had been put together by Mao that it could be regarded as his creation, and if he wanted to reform it, that was his privilege. Only if we regard him as a monarch in succession to scores of emperors can we imagine why the leadership of the CPP, trained to be loyal, went along with his piecemeal assault on and destruction of them. Mao also seems to have had in mind the idea that student youth could be mobilized to attack the evils in the establishment and purge China revisionism. It would be a form to manipulate mass movement, which his experience told him, was the engine of social change. (387) The Cultural Revolution, like the Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Great Leap Forward, turned out to be something he had not envisioned. Allowing for many variations, the purge rate among party officials was somewhere around 60 percent. It has been estimated that 400,000 people died as a result of maltreatment...
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...Invalid Tears “The Trail Where they Cried,” was the suitable name given to the devastating ten year journey, in which a certain people were forced to endure, at the expense of a separate people’s greed. This was greed that knew no limits, and would stop at nothing to prosper, even if it meant the annihilation of a complete race of people. This was the experience of the Native American tribe, the Cherokee. In the 1830s, the Indian Removal Act was passed, giving President Andrew Jackson the freedom to force the Cherokee to be exiled beyond the state of Mississippi. During that time the Cherokee nation was violently forced from their homes and made to leave behind the only life they had ever known. Stricken by harsh weather, sickness, and surrounded by death and sadness, the Cherokee people made the long march from Georgia to Oklahoma. The Cherokee Indians should not have been forced to leave their land, given the consideration that it was in complete violation of their political, constitutional, and natural rights. A significant way the Cherokee people were violated was politically. In the “Memorial of The Cherokee Nation,” the Cherokees wrote, “We wish to remain on the land of our fathers. We have a perfect and original right to remain without interruption or molestation. The treaties with us, and laws of the United States made in pursuance of treaties, guarantee our residence and our privileges, and secure us against intruders. Our only request is, that these treaties may...
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...Understand the circumstances that led to the Louisiana Purchase The circumstances that led to the Louisiana Purchase were the transcontinental railroad that would connect Atlantic to the Pacific that allowed settlers a faster and safer way to California and the West. It led to the now famous Lois and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. We championed westward expansion and exploration which doubled the size of the landscape. He fanned fundamental disagreement about the spread of slavery to the western territories. Jefferson learned that Spain had transferred title to the entire region to France. Congressmen urged Jefferson to prepare for war against France. When he heard that Napoleon had become impatient for his money, Jefferson rushed the treaty to a Senate eager to ratify it. Know the function of cities in Jeffersonian America The function of cities in Jeffersonian America became important commercial ports. They became deports for international trade. Only about 7 percent of the nation’s population lived in urban centers. Most of these people owed their livelihoods either directly or indirectly to the carrying trade (major port cities of the early republic—New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore). Understand Jefferson’s views on economy and federal debt A top priority of the new government was cutting the national debt. Jefferson also wanted to diminish the activities of the federal government. He urged Congress to repeal all direct taxes, including the tax...
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