did not include everyone. As a military leader and as President, Jackson and his followers had no intention of including women in political life, to combat slavery, or give any rights to the Native Americans. Jackson pursued a policy of removing Indian tribes form their lands, which resulted in the Trail of Tears, a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States. Many factors during Jackson’s presidency contributed to the
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1. The official speaking on behalf of the Cherokee nation started his speech with “We are aware” (409). This is important because the Native American people once considered “noble savages” (152) were now, thanks to Thomas Jefferson and his followers, educated and well versed in “white culture” (153). The newly enlightened Indian population of the Cherokee nation now had the means to argue their case in the U.S. judicial system and not by traditional methods of warfare. In addition to the opposition
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being taken from the Native Americans. This was particularly an issue in Georgia, where gold had been discovered on Cherokee land. State governments began to help the settlers financially, by pushing the Native Americans out of their land by passing legislation that limited the Native Americans’ rights and sovereignty. The president at the time was Andrew Jackson, who signed the “Indian
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and South America. There are 3 main Native American tribes here in South Carolina the Cherokee, the Catawba, and the Yemassee. The Cherokee Indians lived in the foothills and mountains of South Carolina, they referred to themselves as the “real people”, and they were a very powerful nation. As many as six hundred people could in their village the village was surrounded by a palisade for protection. The Cherokee had two types of houses they lived in, one was made for the summer, these were open to
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First Blood Shed by the Georgians, according to Boudinot, the Georgians (white Americans) were taking over Cherokee land. While the Cherokees legally owned the land, Georgians refused to acknowledge this fact. Around 17 or 18 families moved onto Cherokee land and began living in Cherokee homes, and according to Boudinot, there were even some reports of retaliation by the Georgians when the Cherokee people tried to keep their homes. Not only were homes up for the taking by the Georgians, but the Georgians
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Running head: MOTIVATING YOUNG READERS Motivating Young Readers through Adolescent Literature Mary Ann Clemente Grand Canyon University: SED 435 Dec. 9, 2012 Motivating Young Readers through Adolescent Literature The challenge that faces educators today is presenting adolescent readers with books that students can relate to and will keep them motivated to read. Adolescents connect to stories that have a theme that tell a story about things like friendship, discovering
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incidentally people who live on the land such as Native American. The battles fought were all over the land in America. So, if a territory was on the land, then the people who lived there would inevitably get involved with the war. Battles were fought on indian territory, and as a result many Native Americans got involved in with the Civil War. The reason why Native Americans got involved in the Civil War was because they were recruited by the Confederate or the Union to fight for their territory. Between
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The forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from their own homeland to the middle of America was barbaric and disgusting. The starting point was the capture of men in their fields, along the road, or in the middle of the road. They took women off their spinning wheels and snatched children from playing. The fiery red flames burned the Cherokee homes to the ground in front of their very own eyes. Eyewitness testimonies claimed that it was worse than the civil war, and the civil war had people shot
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3. The US Constitution says very little about the relationship between the national and state government and American Indian nations. However, Chief Justice John Marshall’s Supreme Court decided cases that helped define that relationship and formed the basic framework of federal Indian law in the US. Do you agree or disagree with the opinions in the “Marshall Trilogy”? According to David. Wilkins, “tribal citizens who live within reservations enjoy tribal, state, and federal citizenship.” ** What
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US History to 1877 Trail of Tears: Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle Having little knowledge of the Cherokee removal and the history that took place in this moment in America’s past, the book Trail of Tears: Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle, offers an insight to the politics, social dynamics and class struggles the Cherokee Nation faced in the late 1830s. The book was very comprehensive and the scope of the book covers nearly 100 years of Native American History
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