...This tedious journey was called the Trail of Tears because of its calamitous results of hunger, fatigue, and disease. The Indian Removal Act was passed through Congress on May 28th, 1830. The act forced the Cherokee to migrate towards current day Oklahoma. Out of the 16,000 Cherokees that were forced on the trail (the Trail of Tears), 4,000 died. One fourth of the tribe perished and it was all for the selfishness of the Europeans and others that “needed” the land. President Andrew Jackson was fine with all of this, in fact, he used the removal act to his advantage. He kept pushing them westward more and more for the benefit of other settlers. The selfishness was literally deadly. There is an anonymous quote that reads: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” This quote is proven through the fallen ones on the trail and the bodies that lost their hope and souls along the way. As the quote in the first sentence says, these lives will not be...
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...the east was being explored and the discovery of gold on the eastern states was valuable. The five civilized tribes, The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole were being forced to relocate West of the Mississippi river due to Americans believing Indians were savages and the discovery of gold in the area. MIgrating the Indians gave the United states an abundance of room to established plantations and continue slavery. The infamous “Trail of Tears” forced thousands of Indigenous people to walk through harsh weather and experience...
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...Sara Watson HIST 1301-325 Trail of Tears Major General Winfield Scott arrived May 8 to take command of the military operation of the removal of the Cherokee Indians. His May 10, 1838 address to the Cherokee people basically said that the president had sent him with an army to make them obey the Treaty of 1835 to move to the other side of the Mississippi. He says that they need to leave with haste but hopefully without disorder. Scott states that his troops are coming to help “assist” the Cherokees if they are refusing or not leaving fast enough. Scott really did want them to leave without having to shed any blood or have any resistance. Scott had told his troops to be kind to the Cherokees and compatible with their removal. His intentions were humane but the larger portion of his army was state levies unaccustomed to discipline and without his professional susceptibilities. Most of the Cherokee to be removed were inhabitants of Georgia and their apprehension was conducted by Georgia militia who had long as a matter of policy been habituated to dealing harshly with Indians. Cherokee were to be herded and confined while awaiting transportation west. There was little to no likelihood of attempted resistance. Within days nearly 17000 Cherokee had been crowded into the stockades. Sanitation measures were inadequate and many inmates sickened. Many lost any will to live and lost all glimmer of hope. In the first and second weeks of June 2 detachments of some 800 exiles...
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...were a great part of history for early Georgia and Alabama. They lived there most of the early days and during the colonial period. While the Indians outnumbered the colonist, they also owned more land and enslaved the African people. By the year of 1760, the Creeks had become a minority population, and by the 1800 they had given their land to the new state. Christopher Columbus arrived in the America’s to find the entire Southeastern area filled with the Indian villages and societies. Soon these natives found themselves devastated by outbreaks of disease not known to them. The small pox infection wiped out a majority of the native population. This was something that the natives had no knowledge of and surely was unprepared for the consequences of it. The estimate is that the disease...
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...I love the sport of racing and the thought always trails my mind of what if something goes wrong. Death is one thing that many drivers refuse to think of. It’s an inevitable cause, death scares everyone but when everyone gets in a race car they don’t know if they will get out alive. “ If you get a racer to a funeral before they are dead your actually doing something “ said two time Daytona winner, two time track champion at the Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville and also hall of gamer at that track in 2001 Darrel waltrip himself. With the increase in safety there have been only 3 deaths since 2000. As a racer I take pride into my sport and am grateful of the many genius and talented developers of these devices and safety walls. Saftey walls were built with impact barriers which allows...
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...Most women were relegated to roles such as prostitutes, though a few managed to find success in business ventures. Despite the challenges they faced, some women defied societal expectations and became teachers in more developed towns, overcoming a society that prioritized males above all else. To counter the perceived danger posed by westward expansion, the U.S. government implemented the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This act led to the tragic Trail of Tears and the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans. Treaties were negotiated to allocate Indian tribes to reserves, but the white settlers often violated these agreements by encroaching upon sacred Native American territories. Due to Americans believing their customs and culture were superior, a portion of the Native American culture that had been passed down through generations had been lost as a result. Through the process of Americanization, Native Americans were stripped of their customs and beliefs, resulting in long-term cultural and societal consequences. African Americans, on the other hand, experienced specific privileges under the Black Law...
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...The trial of Laestrygonian Land is grand example Fagel uses to reveal the purpose. ‘’..men in their death cries, hull smashed to splinters. They speared the crews like fish”(10.134-135). The way Odysseus handled the situation dealt caused his men to face the death that could have been his own. With the decision of Odysseus putting his men in dangerous positions setting his crew up for the dangers that come to face, resulted in brutal deaths many in which Odysseus could have easily dodged with the gods standing by his side. The temptations of hunger within Laestrygonian Land is yet another example provided. “ The deathless gods..as far as guilty ones.. I’ll hit their racing ship with a white-hot, i’ll tear it into splinters”(12.414-418).Although Odysseus did overcome the urges of his hunger at Laestrygonian Land his self-serving decision to cover his own butt without helping his crew costed. Odysseus made it through the trial so he could continue for what he so desperately wanted, but not without having the corollary of death of his men. Because of the path Odysseus chose he faced the rest of his journey in a more lonely manor causing him to offend need more help in the long run especially with...
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...It’s extremely difficult for us to judge someone from history who lived so long ago. We were never able to view their actions firsthand or the consequences that came from it. Andrew Jackson had many instances throughout history that could either have us today consider him an amazing and fearless leader or a racist and corrupt man. I think that even though he had redeeming qualities, the terrible things he participated in and lead, are inexcusable. One the most significant events that occurred in Andrew Jackson’s life was the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. This battle is what catapulted Jackson in the status of an American hero. This battle ended in victory for the Americans and even though this was Jackson’s “first great victory”, it was also...
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...The most frequent causes of violence were men, money, alcohol, and disappointment. As for the women, there weren’t many significant female Wild West players at this time. The few women that were present were mostly prostitutes, although a handful of them later became successful in business. Even still, these women’s lives during the westward colonization were difficult, and some of them overcame the society that valued males above all else to become teachers in larger, more developed towns. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, which resulted in the trail of tears and the relocation of thousands of Indians, was one of the strategies employed by the U.S. government to counter the perceived danger posed by the expansion. Treaties were negotiated in order to allocate Indians to reserves and to move them there, which was another tactic employed. White settlers, however, would infringe the Indians’ holy territory, thus the White Americans refused to follow these treaties. Americanization was a key strategy employed by them to stop Indian migration westward. Native Americans lost their customs and beliefs as a result of this and suffered long-term...
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...Native Americans ( Cherokee) Randall Cartright Eth/125 January/29/2012 Don Yost Abstract Native Americans ( Cherokee) They have faced migration, and annexation. Consequences: Extermination ( almost), expulsion, and segregation. Trail of Tears How? How could a horror have come from such an innocent act? A child sells a trader a rock. But greed unrestricted fears no God. And it has an appetite that can never be satiated. It has been my fate to have been involved in, and an observer of a nation turning it’s back on all of it’s most noble principles. How you recover from that will be left to posterity and the great Judge of all to address. For me it started when I was a young man back in the Smokey Mountain region of Tennessee. I was selected to go with the great Chief Junaluska to fight with the United States soldiers against the Creek. The Creek nation had aligned themselves with the invading British. Who could have believed that such bravery would be repaid someday with such treachery? It was Chief Junalusk’s idea alone to capture the Creek’s canoes at the battle of Horse Shoe and cut of their only means of retreat. It was Chief Junaluska’s quick action that saved Andrew Jackson’s life. I heard Andrew Jackson say to Chief Junaluska:” As long as the sun shines and the grass grows, there will be friendship between us, and the feet of the Cherokee shall be toward the east.” How quickly would those words become a mockery to the...
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...people will often assume they are boat people looking for handouts. However, this is not always the case. Najaf Mazari is a perfect example of the powerless becoming powerful, through refugee/asylum status. At the age of about eleven or twelve, Najaf's world was literally blown to smithereens when a rocket launcher blew their house apart in the village of Mazar - e - Sharif. Najaf was injured to the point he was perilously close to becoming a cripple for life. A year after the bombing Najaf is cured. He returns to work as a Rugmaker only to face the demanding wrath of the Taliban and Communists governments. Najaf is perused so closely that he is forced into hiding from the Taliban, once caught is maliciously beaten as punishment. As a consequence Najaf is forced to risk his life in the hands of people smugglers and get on a rickety and instable boat bound for Australia. Najaf is one of the lucky ones, his boat makes it to Christmas Island. Although his journey does not end here, Najaf must now prove his identity and a genuine asylum claim. Eventually truth wins out and his visa comes through and he is granted asylum. Najaf represents power during conflict extraordinarily well. He risked his life to flee and overcome astounding trials. Nowadays he owns his own rug shop with a wife and daughter in Parhan. Moving Backwards in History Anne Frank is and outstanding model of the powerless becoming powerful during conflict. In 1943 just after Anne's 13th birthday, Anne and her family...
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...Thao Luong Instructor: Christopher Collins History 17A January 9, 2014 Legislating Women's Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century Nineteenth century was a time of social upheaval and enormous political in the Cherokee Nation. Most readers will probably be familiar with the tragedy of the “Trail of Tears " when federal troops Cherokee Indians forced to give up land in Georgia , Alabama , Tennessee and North Caroiina settled in India Territory ( present day Oklahoma ) in 1838-1839 . What may not be widely is known to kill just one of a number of significant changes are experienced by Cherokee Nation in the nineteenth century. The Cherokees radical transformation of political institutions and their legal at the beginning of the century; survivors internal conflicts, which verged on civil war, as a result of the removal policy of the 1830; beyond the American Civil War and its reconstruction as they struggled to combine their slaves into society, and face federal efforts to dismantle the sovereignty of India as the century drew to a close. In many respects, the legal institutions of the nineteenth century Cherokee Nation like those of the United States. The Cherokees split their government into three branches: an executive expressed by the Minister, a judicial body with district and supreme courts and legislatures have created laws for the nation. This article will review some of the laws passed by the legislature of Cherokee governments, especially those...
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...Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel Between the World and Me is powerful in its examination of the black experience in America. Everything Coates says in the novel relates back to the present day struggles that African Americans often encounter in the world. While the purpose of the novel was to educate Coates’ son on the struggles of equality and liberty in America, the most important message in Between the World and Me is that racism is systematic, and race is a resulting concept. It is easy for one to associate racism with hate, to chalk it up to a consequence of evil, but according to Coates, “there is nothing uniquely evil in these destroyers.” One cannot be evil simply because of the color of their skin. However, the evil that spews from racism...
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...the rabbit hole and the unusual characters she encounters. She follows a white rabbit that was talking to himself, wearing a waistcoat and had a pocket watch, down the rabbit hole. She fell a long time through this tunnel and fell into a hall of doors. On the table in the middle of the room for a tiny door, on the other side of the door is a garden that Alice wants to get to. On the table, Alice finds a bottle with ‘DRINK ME’ on it, this makes her small, but then she finds a cake, which says ‘EAT ME’ on it, which makes her grow until her head hit the ceiling. Thus begins the series of shape change for Alice. The shape change confuses Alice and she gets up set, she cries and floods the room. As she shrinks she is forced to swim in her own tears and is soon joined by a number of other animals. They get out of the water and the mouse tells a story to a caucus race to dry all of the animals off.. Once Alice is dry, she enters the garden where she goes into a house and drinks from the bottle to make herself grow again, but this makes her too big, too big that she cannot get out of the house. Animals start to gather to make her leave, they throw pebbles at her (which are in fact pieces of cake that she eats and shrinks). Another strange character she encounters is a caterpillar that is sitting on a mushroom, smoking a ‘hookah’. Now being a teenager in this generation, this has connotations of drugs and made me think is the caterpillar sitting encouraging her to ear the mushrooms and...
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...that incident. You’re quite lucky to be awake right now seeing as the other doctors didn’t have much faith in you.” Doctor Richards said. Once Larry was alone with his thoughts, he was grateful to still be alive with only slight injuries. On the bed next to him was a young man who was strapped to every machine in the room. The young man was awake watching the hospital tv. Larry sat up and asked the young man “What are you in for?” The young man struggled to respond “Car crash.” Curious Larry asked if he was in an accident with an officer. The man quietly nodded. “So it was you!” Mere seconds and Larry was on top of him. “You were the one who put me in here, thanks to you I may never get out there again!” The man began to tear up as he sees the consequences of his actions. Weeks pass and Larry was out and ready to resume his police work.When Larry entered the station the head detective approached him and said “Larry we feel that we should move you from your department and give you a new position.” “What do you mean, I want to be out there making a difference, and solving cases out there!” Cried Larry “Yes, Wilson we want you out there, but as a full time officer your injuries may not allow you to be the best officered may even hurt your performance out there and endanger your life. With that being said, we all agreed that nobody would be better for the position of Lead Detective!”. Just as quick this new position was sprung on him, Larry was put straight into a case A young woman...
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