night. Because the soldier was against the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears‚ this person was able to give direct information on what happened without sugar-coating anything. This helps the reader understand the harsh conditions given to Cherokee Indians during this Trail of
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repel European American settlers from those lands north of the Ohio. Four hundred settlers were killed in the Fort Mims massacre. In the resulting Creek War‚ Jackson commanded the American forces‚ which included Tennessee militia‚ U.S. regulars‚ and Cherokee‚ Choctaw‚ and Lower Creek warriors. Jackson served in the military again during the First Seminole War. He was ordered by President James Monroe in December 1817 to lead a campaign in Georgia against the Seminole and Creek Indians. In January 1835
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Was Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Policy Motivated by Humanitarian Impulses? Authors: Anthony F. C. Wallace‚ Robert V. Remini‚ A Summary By: History 2111 Summer 2011 A summary comparison of views regarding the Indian Removal Act of 1830‚ Was it an act of humanitarianism intended to help and save the Native American culture from the white settlers‚ as Robert V. Remini has argued? Or was his intent to destroy the tribal culture and to get rid of the Native Americans‚ as Anthony F.C Wallace
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The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern‚ Eastern‚ and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600‚ varying regionally. Composed of series of urban settlements and villages (the largest city being Cahokia) and linked together by a loose trading network. The Mississippians had no writing system or stone architecture. They worked naturally occurring metal deposits‚ such as hammering and annealing copper
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of my favorite books; Sam Houston had a very interesting life. As a child he was relentless and rebellious. He had little formal education‚ but loved to read. He eventually tired of Tennessee and ran away. He crossed the river and lived among the Cherokee Indians. While living with the Indians Sam Houston learned a valuable lesson that would soon come to use to him later in life‚ peace first and war second. He lived among the whites and the Indians for a time. When the War of 1812 broke
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In the novel‚ Little Women‚ by Louisa May Alcott‚ four aspiring young girls receive guidance to maturity by their caring and sagacious mother as well as those around them. Marmee‚ for her children‚ furthermore‚ repeatedly defines just work as productive efforts intended to efficiently help and benefit‚ not only the worker‚ but those they care for. Alcott uses the characters’ actions‚ both poor and wise‚ to illustrate astounding merits of difficult and genuine work through the girls’ lazy week and
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ZINN CHAPTER 7: Study Questions "As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs" 1. What is the major theme (recurring idea) in this chapter. The major theme in this chapter was about the Native Americans and their survival due to the Americans taking their land‚ spreading diseases‚ and raiding their towns. 2. What evidence does Zinn cite to illustrate the overall impact of Indian removal? The evidence Zinn uses to illustrate the overall impact of the Indian removal by talking about the book
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The Tyranny of Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson: the common man or the first king of America? He is viewed by history in many different ways‚ some see him as the man who granted universal white male suffrage‚ created a more democratic way to elect electoral voters to congress and replaced caucuses with national nominating conventions; and others‚ who saw past this false representation and saw how in his eight years in office‚ he vetoed 12 bills‚ forced Native Americans from their homeland‚ ignored supreme
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The Trail of Tears began with the idea of white settlers wanting to settle in the land where Native Americans were to grow cotton. They believed that Native Americans weren’t people‚ and they were just objects occupying the land they wanted and felt they deserved. The white settlers were forcing Native Americans to migrate to designated “Indian Territory” that was across the Mississippi River. The ideas of the early white Americans was to try to convert the Native Americans to be more like the
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his beloved country. His unnecessary brutality went essentially unpunished in the government -- which in itself is awful‚ but not the point. During his presidency‚ remembering the lack of reprimand‚ Jackson penned the Indian Removal Act to send the Cherokee people off the land of their fathers into the land of no one’s fathers -- far off and disconnected from the aggravated citizens of Georgia. Only when the Act was repealed in the Supreme Court and the judge declared it immoral and wrong did president
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