As a negotiator or a diplomat, Parker was an excellent communicator. Parker negotiated with Governor Campbell of Texas, the removal of his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker from her gravesite in Texas to Cache, Oklahoma where Parker had a family plot set for future burials. In a well written letter to Governor Campbell, Parker succeeded in negotiating the transfer of Cynthia Ann Parker. Later, the State of Texas sent the remains of her small daughter, Prairie Flower so that the family was laid to rest in
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American Indians were seen as interference during U.S expansion. To rid the United States of this impeding problem many natives were completely annihilated through various forms of warfare, while others were forced to live on small reservations that could not be cultivated and sported little game. Newly introduced diseases also quickly killed off the native population yet the natives were still viewed as a “problem”. In efforts to solve the “problem,” assimilation of the young native was introduced
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Paulina Richardson HIS-144 2/13/16 Katie Kraeling The evolution of democracy from the time of President Jefferson to President Jackson The democracies of President Jackson and President Jefferson seem very similar, yet share their significant differences. President Jefferson was the third president from the years of 1801 to 1809, and President Jackson was the seventh president from the years of 1829 to 1837. Both are in favor of common man and both feel that it is common people who
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During our debate I was on Congress. My responsibility was to help make a final verdict on whether remove that was just or unjust. I was originally on the Missionaries team who were against the removal act. Originally all I know about the removal act was the trail of tears. I did not know that the United States planned to move the Indians west for farmland and expansion. The Indian land they were given what is in present day Wyoming. I did not know that United States push them continuously until
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One of the most controversial events in Louisiana History, even United States’ history was the Assassination of Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, but what made the event so controversial, well some individuals hail Huey as a Saint who was a man of the people, while others saw him as a power-hungry dictator who was a man for himself and those who were associated with him. Although there are clear indications that Long was able to “suppress” his political opponents through his bodyguards or politically
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Throughout the years, Native Americans have been defeated out of their land either by acts of war or simply because a higher authority ordered them to move. One of the earliest federal policies was established in 1887 as the Dawes Act. The Dawes Act was developed as a means to protect the Indian Reservation plots of land that held them for 25 years before they could be sold as well as promised US citizenship to any Native American that made an effort to live in a more civilized fashion such as having
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took matters into their own hands and took the case to the Supreme Court. The Cherokees won a favorable decision because Georgia had no jurisdiction over the Cherokees and no claim to their land. Still, Georgica officials ignored this and President Jackson didn’t enforce it. (USHistory.org) Thus began the march of the Trail of Tears. Men, women, and children were forced to pack up their belongings on a march to an “Indian Territory” in Oklahoma which was created by the United States government. They
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More current examples of neglect is Leonard Peltier, and the mascot controversy. Leonard Peltier is an American Indian activist from the American Indian Movement (AIM), who was wrongfully jailed for the murder of two FBI agents. Prior to the incident 60 American Indians were killed on the Pine Ridge reservation, allegedly by paramilitary squads connect to the tribal government, without any justice. Relationship with the Native American activist group were strained, with accusation that the FBI did
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Andrew Jackson was a hardline autocrat who somehow slid into America’s most powerful singular office on the back of a rising populist revolution, armed with drink and their own vanity. Document 1 shows the transition from elections by the more knowledgeable legislature (elected by the populous) to a growing and uneducated populous. In Document 4, Jackson claims that the populous is better at governing and banking than professional bankers, and backs up his claim with negative evidence when, as shown
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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
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