...Several Skirmishes followed, including the skirmish and Hickory Sink and the murder of Kinsley Dalton. These incidents along with the continued refusal of the Seminoles to move lead the United States to prepare for war. The Second Seminole War Began. In the coming months, the United States Generals would lead fruitless campaigns in pursuit of the Seminoles, while they attacked forts, plantations and settlements across the state. In December of 1835, two companies of soldiers sent to reinforce Fort King were attacked by Seminoles and decimated with only two badly wounded soldiers surviving. A particularly notable battle was the Battle of Wahoo Swamp, the Seminole victory against a force of 2500 American soldiers gave the Seminoles confidence and served as proof that the Seminoles could win against their white aggressors....
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...displaying the Nazi Flag was to get people to have a conversation about it. He stated, “It’s good to address it, but there is no need to kill someone over it.” He also stated, “Hitler stole the Nazi flag and that the Swastika Symbol was originally a Hindu Symbol that meant good luck. In the next room, there were display of Indian Artifacts, a Hut and a picture of Georgia’s Creek Indian Chief William McIntosh (ca.1778-1825). William McIntosh was a controversial Chief of The Lower Creeks in the nineteenth century in Georgia. Williams McIntosh supported the United States and its efforts to end those who opposed the invasion of white settlers on Indian Land. William McIntosh supported General Andrew Jackson in the Creek War of 1812-1815 and The First Seminole War (1817-18). Because of his participation in the drafting and signing of The Treaty of Indian Springs of 1825 that led to...
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...The Seminole Wars proved to be the longest and costliest to the fledgling United States of all the Native American Conflicts. 1,500 Regular military soldiers, 30,000 volunteer militia, 35 million dollars, and 42 years were spent on a war that defines how the United States fights wars to this day (Florida Department of State, 2015). The Seminole Nation remains the only unconquered Indian Tribe to this day, finally signing a peace treaty in 1936. Not everything went well for the Seminole tribes during the war. Always outnumbered, continuously on the run, and moving their entire villages, including women, children, and livestock, led to bitter victories that oftentimes left crucial resources behind. The Seminole’s keys to victory always were...
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...Article review The Florida Crisis of 1826-1827 and the Second Seminole War Christopher Walker Dr. Saunders Jacksonian 4407 July 12, 2014 The Florida Crisis of 1826-1827 and the Second Seminole War Introduction In this critical review of The Florida Crisis of 1826 – 1827 and the Second Seminole War Canter Brown Jr., tells a very tragic, and hard fought story about the experience of the Seminoles and various groups involved in a plea for life. Brown tells this story in the form of an essay in which he shares his arguments and analysis as a historian, professor, a Floridian, and author in terms of the Florida Crisis. This paper will review Brown’s story as well as his main arguments and will evaluate the quality of Brown’s writing and focus on all areas and his weakness within this account. Summary This section contains a summary of The Florida Crisis of 1826-1827 and the Second Seminole War. The Florida Crisis of 1826-1827 and the Second Seminole is an article by Canter Brown Jr. and it addresses the history of Florida in the war between Seminoles along with other groups of people and the United States. Brown reveals the political, and racial aspects that lead to the history of the war in the United States. The author exclaimed that this war was marked as the most expensive Indian war of all times. This crisis that broke Florida involved the Seminole people and this is why the title “The Seminole War.” The crisis involved the Indian territories and associated free...
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...Conflict in the Florida territory between U.S. settlers and Seminole Indians grew into violence in December 1835. When Seminole warriors murdered Wiley Thompson, a senior Indian agent, and the “Dade Massacre” which resulted in the death of U.S. Army Officer Major Francis Dade and 107 of the 110 Soldiers in his command, starting the Second Seminole War. In September 1837, President Martin Van Buren assigned a force to Major General Thomas Jessup, the Senior Army Commander in Florida, which contained Colonel Zachary Taylor’s 1st Infantry regiment. Colonel Taylor was given an area of operations near swampy Lake Okeechobee and 1,032 Soldiers to hunt and defeat Seminole resistance and move the tribes to the reservation land in Oklahoma. On 24 December...
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...the early 1820s in a bid to resist the Society of Freemasons. Aroostook 255- this is a war between Canadians and Americans which took place at the Aroostook River region in 1838. Bank war 247- this term refers to a war between Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States. Jackson wanted to destroy the bank but the bank’s president, Nicholas Biddle was determined to save it. Caroline affair 255- a ship by the name Caroline was ferrying supplies to American rebels across the Niagara River. British authorities however detained the ship and burnt it down. In retaliation, the American authorities arrested a Canadian, Alexander McLeod and charged him with the murder of the American who had died when the ship was burnt down. This is what was referred to as the Caroline Affair. Daniel Webster 242- he was a senator for Massachusetts who challenged Robert Hayne’s call for nullification. Dorr rebellion 237- it was started by Thomas W. Dorr who sought to increase the percentage of voters in Rhode Island. He drafted a constitution which declared him the governor for Rhode Island. This was declared a rebellion by the state government and Dorr and his followers were captured and imprisoned. Five Civilized Tribes 244- the five tribes of Indians which remained in the US and established settlements. They were namely the Creek, Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw and Chickasaw and lived in western Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida...
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...The War of 1812 did not only involve Britain and the U.S., but the Native Americans as well. Before the war started the British made deals with the Indians which provided the British protection from possible invasion of Canada and provided the Indians with a chance to protect their lands from the greedy, land-hungry Americans. However, the unlikely British-Native alliance of 1812 is seldomly ever mentioned, and few know about that amount of dependency each side had on one another. With this said, the Native Americans wanted an alliance with the British in order to keep control over their tribal lands while the British wished to protect Canada and employ the Indians against the Americans during the war. How could an unlikely alliance be so successful?...
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...From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back. The Yankees were “not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people,” Sherman explained; as a result, they needed to “make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”1 Major General Sherman’s Army consisted of two wings, left and right, and a cavalry division in support of both wings....
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...Ballard Evolution of the US Marine Corps Thesis: The evolution of the US Marine Corps has helped America become the strongest military in the world. 1. Introduction a. Thesis statement II. When the corps started a. Why they started b. What made them known for i. Tactics ii. Strategy iii. Origin III. Advancements throughout history a. Advancements from the past compared to now i. Weapons b. Evolution of the soldier i. Controversy in between navy and marines IV. Specialties a. What they do in present day i. Commander ii. Advancements b. Fun facts V. Conclusion a. Thesis Statement To begin with, the Marine Corps has greatly affected America in the past century. They’ve greatly contributed to the history of America staring in 1775. The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed by Captain Samuel Nicholas by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on November 10, 1775 (Marines.com). The Marines play a big role in the Revolutionary War because they were better trained and better experienced for example. The first Marine landing on a hostile shore happened when a force of Marines with Captain Samuel Nicholas took over New Province Island in the Bahamas from the British in March 1776 (History.com). Sadly, shortly after...
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...players onto the field, he signifies armed resistance, bravery, and savagery, and his appearance builds on the prevailing understandings of Indianness that construct Native Americans as aggressive, hostile, and even violent” (King and Springwood [2000], p. 285). This portrayal of savagery is at the heart of the arguments by native Indians to remove their names from colleges using their image as a motivational and war-like incentive. I have never viewed the mascots of colleges as being an offensive form of racial disparity, but this article made me view this issue from the other side and opened my eyes as to why groups of people may be offended by how their name is being represented to the public. For example, I grew up an avid sports fan, but history never really caught my interest. Therefore, my view of the American Indian is distorted from the reality of their true image because I have only seen their name used as rally call for battle in a football or basketball game. King and Springwood (2000) elaborated on this issue by stating, “To characterize the indigenous Seminole people or any other native nation of North America as warlike or bellicose dehumanizes them and demonizes them. More important, it disregards both their cultures and their histories” (p. 285-286)....
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...27 The Whigs employed the same tactics as Jackson’s campaigns from 1824, ’28, and ’32. Without a platform, the party used slogans, chants, and the democrats words against them. 28 In fact, the “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” slogan came from a Democrat editor. While the Harrison made far more noise than Van Buren, the popular vote was very close, Harrison with 146,843 more than Van Buren from a total vote count of more than two and a half million. With this victory, the Whigs proved that they also had the capability to put an “impoverished” Westerner in the White House. Underneath all of the politicking, this was a massive decision for the American people. The United States was still suffering from its largest economic panic, and the two candidates represented two different economic platforms. 29 By choosing Harrison, the people social programs and increased Federal power. Harrison’s victory led to another massive shift in power as the Whigs gained the spoils of the Presidency. 27 Kennedy, American Pageant, 270 28 Kennedy, American Pageant, 271 29 Holt, Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War,...
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...according to President Abraham Lincoln and would divide the Confederacy while, giving the Union complete control of the Mississippi transportation route. With the capture of Vicksburg, the Union led by risky, yet boisterous attempts of Grant far more outmaneuvered the indecisive and ill-equipped decisions of Pemberton; and the stronghold of the Union over the Confederacy. At this time in the Civil War, the Mississippi river was the most important trade and supply route in the United States. It was the livelihood of the country and with it held the greatest economic feature to trade in the country and the world for agricultural products and their export and intercontinental transfer. It was the last stranglehold the Confederacy held on the Union and the prevention of military supply and aid to the Deep South, commerce of the middle and northwestern states to the world and a waning support of the war in enthusiasm and economic demand. President Abraham Lincoln said of Vicksburg and the importance of its seizure, “See what a lot of land these fellows hold, and Vicksburg is the key. The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket… We can take all the northern ports of the Confederacy, and they can defy us from Vicksburg.” He went onto say after a trip made as a boy in a flat bottom boat to New Orleans, “I am acquainted with that region and know what I am talking...
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...Native Americans, Struggles, Mascots, and Controversy There has been a national debate for years over Native American athletic mascots. “Members of the North Carolina Mascot Education and Action Group and the Guilford Native American Association, however, repeatedly told us that they perceived the use of Indian mascots, logos, caricatures, and similar images by our schools as a clear form of institutional racism” (Grier 2005: 51). In this paper we will discuss the controversial impact of the Native American stereotype used as mascots. In the early 1900’s when the threat of colonization was abolished Americans started to use the Native American mascot to show their acknowledgement of their struggles. Although this was symbolic it has been an ongoing controversy within schools and sports. California is the second highest state that uses the most Native American imagery and symbols. The importance of this contemporary issue is an ongoing debate in California that has impacted the true history of Native Americans and the battles they went through. The truth is crucial because their imagery and interpretation is misunderstood in American history. In the early 1900’s it became acceptable to use Native American imagery for advertisement. “One of the reasons why most Americans find the mascots unremarkable and do not turn a critical eye toward the mascots is because of the prevalence of similar images throughout U.S. popular culture” (King, et al 2002:391). Although years later...
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...battle analysis, I will analyze the Mexican-American war, discuss when the battle occurred, where it took place, the principle adversaries, review the settings of the battle operationally, and discuss the different areas of operation, such as the weather and terrain. I will also describe and analyze the American and Mexican armies in leadership, size and composition, technology, logistical systems, command, control and communications, intelligence, tactical doctrine and morale, the battle chronologically, followed by the significance of the battle, addressing the effects of the war and how lessons learned from this war affect the way our military operates today. So first, lets start by discussing the Mexican-American war. During April 25, 1846 to February 2, 1848 the Mexican American War occurred. This conflict happened between the Centralist Republic or Mexico and the Unite States. The war consisted of four campaigns as follows, the Texas, California, Pacific Coast and Mexico campaigns. President James K. Polk, who was elected in 1844, believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean (Frazier, 1998). At first, the United States declined to incorporate Texas into the union, because northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state. The Mexican government encouraged border raids and warnings that if any attempt to annex Texas it would lead to a war. As time went by Polk had his eyes on the southwest...
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...Black Experience in America: Slavery to Emancipation AAAS 106 Professor Shawn Alexander KU 2011 Final Exam Study Guide Some important dates and events - Remember that this guide only gives you a chronology of important events. It is not sufficient for the exam - you must fill in the details from your lecture notes and readings. All the reading is compulsory, do not leave out any portion of the texts or articles. Slavery and the Slave Trade African Slave Trade: Conventional Dates – 1450 – 1867 Early controllers of the Trade: 1494 the Spanish turned to the Portuguese to supply slaves for their colonies. By the 17th C Northern European countries began to dominate the trade. 1621 Dutch West Indies Trading Company 1672 British Royal African Company (by the end of the 17th England dominated the trade.) The Scale of the Trade: Between 1492 and the end of the trade in 1867 Europeans transported a minimum of 10 million people in some 27,000 slaving expeditions – or some 170 slave ships per year. 50% mortality rate (rough estimate) About 95% of the captives were sent to the brutal tropical sugar growing regions of Brazil and the Caribbean. 40% Brazil 5-6% North America Before the trade picked up (1700) 2.2 million Africans had already been shipped to the Americas. The trade climaxed in the 1780s, when 80,000 Africans were shipped a year. 5/4 of all those shipped came in the 18th and 19th centuries. Three major areas in Africa supplied...
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