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    the Native Americans to stay and live peacefully. Andrew Jackson however ignored these treaties‚ and in response‚ he declared and forcefully moved the Native Americans in the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This was also after the case of Worcester v. Georgia where the Supreme Court also said that controlling Native American territory was unconstitutional. National Bank C+ The National Bank of the United States had its positives and negatives. The Bank support businesses and was a safe place for the federal

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    outraged with the seven chiefs. The seven chiefs said that they were forced to sign the treaty. After this was stated‚ a group of Seminoles ambuscade a U.S. military company and killed all but 3 of the 110 army groups. The Creeks were forced from Georgia. They had the Treaty of Indian Springs. The tribe then later stated that the treaty was fraudulent but most of the tribe was still forced to move. The Chickasaw tribe did not put up that much of a fight. They moved across the Mississippi

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    serious problem. “By the time it closed in early May 1865‚ the sanitation‚ health‚ and mortality problems stemming from its overcrowding‚ had earned Andersonville a reputation as the most notorious of Confederate atrocities inflicted on Union troops (Georgia)”. Overcrowding at Andersonville was a big reason why it was such an infamous prison camp. A major reason for the overcrowding at Andersonville was because Abraham Lincoln stopped the exchange of POWs. President Lincoln wanted to make sure that all

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    from happening‚ it will happen anyway‚ with his approval. this proves that Andrew Jackson strongly felt that states should hold jurisdiction over the federal government. He believed in a small federal government. Jackson felt that if the state of Georgia wanted to do the opposite of the law of the Supreme Court‚ then they have the right to. Jackson believed in keeping the federal government small‚ and was even

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    president Jackson treated the natives as inferior subjects to white men as himself‚ the Cherokees‚ one of the “Five Civilized Tribes‚” chose to obey his wishes and assimilate‚ rather than to resist. A conflict arose between the Cherokees and the state of Georgia‚ their white neighbors‚ over whether the Cherokees could declare themselves an independent nation or not. However‚

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    government and Native Americans Points earned on this question: 5 Question 3 (Worth 5 points) What was the goal of the Dawes Act?  provide funding for "Indian schools"  assimilate Native Americans into the dominant culture  force Native Americans out of Georgia into western lands  provide Native Americans with protected land in reservations Points earned on this question: 0 Which

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    immoral to do such a thing; yet in the early 1800’s this is basically what happened to the Cherokee Nation of Indians. Starting in 1814‚ Andrew Jackson wanted to move the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland of North Carolina‚ Tennessee‚ Georgia‚ and Alabama‚ to the present day state of Oklahoma. The Indian Nations traveled through the Trail of Tears to get to their forced new territory. They traveled in many different ways of transportation such as foot‚ horse‚ and wagon. Though many are

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    “Art is Long‚ Life is short”: Examining Adaptive Reuse at Savannah School of Art and Design Savannah‚ Georgia is a unique city in that it is a preserved microcosm that facilitated a history that goes back almost 300 years. X by General James Oglethorpe in 1733‚ Savannah Whether it be aesthetically‚ economically‚ sustainably‚ Savannah is a city that melds the past and present to create something very singular‚ something that attracts millions of people every year. Never mind the fact that Savannah

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    Margaret Mitchell’s Bio Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta‚ Georgia in 1900. Her dad‚ a lawyer and the president of the Atlanta Historical Society‚ and her mom‚ a women suffragist‚ raised Mitchell with stories about Atlanta during the Civil War. Margaret attended Smith College‚ which was a women’s college in Massachusetts. When her first marriage was a disaster‚ Mitchell worked as a journalist for the Atlanta Journal and married John Robert Marsh. After ten years of writing her 1000 page novel

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    their lands‚ sometimes without a notice in advance‚ and had to take long journeys to reservations unprepared. An example of this harsh treatment was when President Jackson in the 1820’s demanded the removal of the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia and sent them to reservations in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Their journey from their homeland to the reservations was known as the "Trail of Tears" in which 4‚000 died of starvation‚ disease‚ or exposure. As if being relocated once from their homelands

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