their home states of Mississippi‚ Alabama‚ Florida‚ and Georgia and moved them to reservations in Oklahoma. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 created a better lifestyle for some Americans but led to the slow and painful demise of the Native American way of life. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 provided better land opportunities for American citizens in the regions which Native Americans were evacuated from. With this act in place states like Georgia‚ which shared their lands with the Natives‚ would no
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Between 1816 and 1840‚ tribes located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River signed more than 40 treaties surrender their territory to the United States. Tribes such as Cherokees‚ Choctaws‚ Chickasaws‚ Seminoles‚ and Creeks. In early in the 19th century‚ the United States felt threatened by Spain and England‚ who held the western territory. At the same time‚ American settlers asked for more land. Thomas Jefferson proposed the creation of a neutral zone between the United States and
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1) The reasons that the Cherokee give for rejecting the idea of moving beyond the Mississippi River is because they cannot endure to be deprived of their national and individual rights‚ and exposed to a process of intolerable oppression by the residents who live near the river already. 2) The Cherokees understood their “national and individual rights” as not having the rights‚ which the fathers planned‚ in their favor. The U.S. see them as an evil eye unlike many other Indian tribes. Many of the
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stated that the history of the US for the first 100 years is primarily about the successes‚ concerns‚ and desires of the Anglo-American man. As a result‚ the impact of marginalized groups played little to no role in how events of those years transpired.” This quotes claim is not true as it has been continuously proven in the events of the United States first 100 years that the impact of marginalized groups like slaves and Native Americans‚ directly impacts the Anglo-American man and the events that
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increases as more settlers expand on the economy‚ making less room for the land to settle on. During the westward expansion‚ the Cherokees biggest threat comes from Georgia and their persuasion against congress and the desire to run off the Cherokee. Cherokees have been on the American land possible forever and at no stop will Georgia let them have any room on their territory. Because congress was so weak‚ the desire for Cherokee land was abundant and congress could not help the Cherokee people.
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Hernando De Soto Tours Hernando De Soto sent out on an expedition to find an empire abounding in gold and jewels. He had six hundred troops‚ 213 horses‚ a pack of fighting hounds to aid him in his search‚ and his heard of swine. He landed in Florida May 28‚ 1539 in Tampa Bay in search for his gold. Shortly after arriving in pursuit of Indians his men were surprised to hear one of them shout in Spanish‚ “Do not slay me‚ cavalier; I am a Christian!” They were lucky to find a survivor of the Narvaez
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Africans. Major commodity crops of sugar and cotton were cultivated with slave labor on large plantations outside the city. Savannah‚ Georgia Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County‚ in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733‚ the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial
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The Presidential Election of 1828 was different from any other presidential election that had ever taken place in America. Why? This was the first presidential election in which all males could vote. Andrew Jackson campaigned as the candidate of the ordinary people. In 1828‚ the ordinary non-landowners became Jackson’s strongest supporters‚ and with their votes‚ he won the Presidential Election of 1828. He championed the cause of the ordinary man throughout his entire presidency. BITS (acronym
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http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=7&sid=24f22114-93a8-45a7-b75f-95127ae552c5%40sessionmgr4&hid=10&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=n9h&AN=17910229 Benchmarks: U.S. History -- Expansion & Manifest Destiny (1784-1860) Subject Terms: INDIANS of North America ; TRAIL of Tears‚ 1838-1839 ; CHEROKEE Indians -- Relocation ; JACKSON‚ Andrew‚ 1767-1845 ; SEMINOLE Indians ; UNITED States -- History -- 1815-1861 Authors: McGill‚ Sara Ann Source: Indian Removal
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Slavery and Georgia’s Future The charter by King George II to give Georgia to James Edward Oglethorpe was used as a means to lower the population of England by transferring the Poor Subjects of Misfortune but yet those who want employment to Georgia. King George II would pay the way of the Poor Subjects of Misfortune provided they agreed to occupy and work the 50 acres of land provided to them and their family upon arrival to Georgia. This would give England a stronghold between Carolina and the Spanish
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