accomplishments‚ there is one instance in United States history which brings shame to many Americas to this very day. This instance was the tragic removal of thousands of Native American men‚ women‚ and children from their homeland‚ notoriously known as The Trail of Tears. This paper will give a brief summary of the U.S. governments role in this wide scale removal of the five major Indian tribes‚ as well as the events leading to it‚ while more specifically focusing on President Andrew Jackson and the effects
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Cause and effect John G. Burnett English 101 A03 February 20 2011 Analysis Essay/Cause and Effect of Removal of the Cherokees By John G. Burnett During Andrew Jackson’s presidency from 1829 to 1837‚ a lot of controversial decisions were made. The removal of Cherokee Indians in the 1830’s was one‚ and this was more a change of the national policy than a reformulation. Since the Spanish came to the New World from the 1500’s‚ the continent’s inhabitants- Indians‚ were there. Beginning from
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Americans including the Indian Removal Act of 1830‚ Trail of Tears‚ and the Black Hawk War. All of which were a conflict or feud with the Natives and the Americans. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was put into place when Cherokee Indians‚ living in the states‚ were learning the language and culture of the Americans. In response to this‚ Andrew Jackson issued the Indian Removal Act. This act sent for the removal of all Indian tribes living within US borders‚ including the Cherokee‚ Creeks‚ Choctaws‚ Chickasaws
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culture and also how this event has gone down as one of the worst moments in American history. The trail of tears included several different tribes like the Cherokee‚ Seminole and Muscogee tribes just to name a few. These tribes were treated unfairly and many died from starvation and disease during their journey. It began in 1831 when the Cherokee‚ Seminole‚ Choctaw‚ Muscogee-Creek tribes were resided in what is now the deep South. They lived in civilized tribes and some tribes were beginning to go
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Tears following the Indian removal act is a perfect representation with direct legislature to prove it. Now I have to say that former president Andrew Jackson was a person I greatly admired and often visited the hallowed statue in New Orleans that stands ever vigilant as a visual tribute the man who stood with few to fight the many and came out victorious. Some historians view Jackson as a very controversial President‚ However historians will often agree that the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was not popular
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Now that he was president he figured he could pass along an act‚ called the Removal Act‚ which gave federal government the power to exchange Native-held land in the so called “cotton kingdom” which was east of the Mississippi for land to the west‚ in the “Indian colonization zone”‚ this place being the land that the United States
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The Trail of Tears was a harsh and inhumane event that happened in the 1830’s. Indian tribes were forced off of their land and they were involuntarily relocated to what is now Oklahoma. There was fear and resentment among the white settlers when it came to their Native American adversaries. They were a different kind of people than the whites when it came to how they lived‚ spoke‚ dressed and as well as their religious beliefs. This unfamiliarity with them led to the settlers believing that they
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Creeks and destroyed all of their military power. Andrew Jackson then forced all of the Indians into a treaty where they would surrender over twenty million acres of their traditional land to the United States Government. Jackson then led the Indian removal campaign throughout the following decade. He was able to complete nine of the eleven major treaties in order to remove the Indians from their
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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 & the Trail of Tears; 2009‚ p1(Click to view ’Table of Contents’)2p Publisher: Great Neck Publishing Database: Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition Indian Removal & the Trail of Tears The initial colonization of the North
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The number slaves grew in the Cherokee area as whites took over the land and began to grow cotton‚ mine gold/ore‚ using slaves. Part II Points Possible: 20 Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following: 1. Nicholas Biddle: American financier of the second bank
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