During the 19th century, American Indian Policy was implemented to enable people in the U.S. to exchange crops and other products with native Tribes. Therefore, people who were in the federal government had the power to make deals with the native Tribes with the authority of the Constitution. With that being said, the United States government wanted to be in control of every situation if anything were to go wrong. They did not want non whites to take over their...
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In chapter four of “An American Betrayal,” written by Daniel Blake Smith, there were many unexpected turning points that amazed and surprised me. I believe that throughout this chapter, the Smith is leaning more towards the Cherokees’ side. I made this inference based on the context and words he uses before several quotes and statements present in this chapter. If this is the case, then I greatly support and agree with his opinion because I believe that Jackson just took...
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Introduction Ever since the colonization of the North American continent by the Europeans, Native Americans had to deal with their land being slowly taken from them whether it’s by force or peace. The Cherokees are by far concerned. The excerpt under study is a taken from Mankiller, A Chief and her People, an autobiographic book written by Wilma Mankiller. She was the very first woman in the Cherokee history to be elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee nation from 1985...
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“The only good Indians I ever saw were dead,” as stated by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who at the time, worked directly under President Jackson. In 1830, Native American tribes were forcibly removed from their homelands and property. Many were only left with the few belongings on their backs. Helpless Native Americans were arrested from their homes and dragged away as revolting savages. They were loaded up as if they were nothing more than mangy cattle, into numerous wagons....
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How would you react if the land you and your ancestors lived on began to get stripped away by white settlers and the American government for their own personal use and benefit? The Trail of Tears was an extremely challenging time for many Native American groups. They were affected by the relocation and removal from their lands east of the Mississippi River. Different Native American groups took different actions and tactics to resist this removal during the Trail of Tears....
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Approximately 125,000 Southeast Indians lived farmed and prospered on ancestral land ranging in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida. December 1829 President Andrew Jackson requested federal monies to remove Southeast Indians (Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, Cherokee, and Creek) displacing indigenous tribes west of the Mississippi River. Vice president and secretary of state Martin Van Buren supported the uprooting of Indians stating that its a subject of great importance and deemed priority among presidential policy goals “First, the removal of the...
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Reparation, also known as “compensation in money or material payable by a defeated nation for damages to or expenditures sustained by another nation as a result of hostilities with the defeated nation – usually used in plural” [merriam-webster, 2019], has been a question affecting our nation for years. There have been many examples of our nation ‘damaging’ many people of our nation. These examples can be having African Americans as slaves, Native Americans with stealing their land, and Japanese Americans...
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President Andrew Jackson, like many other white frontiersman, believed that Indians had no rights and should be treated according to such. After his election in 1828 Jackson recommended that the Eastern Indians be moved west of the Mississippi River to what had become Oklahoma. In Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi state laws had already stripped Indians of their powers, rejected the claims they had to their land, and denied Indians the right to sue or vote. Congress in 1830 in response...
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Being a lawyer and a landowner, Andrew Jackson has to be considered as one of the most controversial presidents ever. Some may say that he is a bad president seeing the decisions he made that had a huge effect on the citizens but at the same, he could also be argued as a good president since of how he handled the U.S debt during that time. However, his poor actions such as the promotion of slavery by signing the Indian...
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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. The law was signed into law by Andrew Jackson and it was strictly enforced under his and Martin Van Buren’s administration, which lasted until 1841. Native Americans living east of...
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President Andrew Jackson was the United State’s seventh president and was surrounded by controversy. Despite this, he was still a fairly good president whose legacy was good for the United States, not so much its Native inhabitants. Jackson managed to help pay off the federal debt by cutting federal spending, accelerated the democratization of American life, and allowed for a booming economy and increase in industrialization. The Maysville Road Veto took place in May of 1830, when then President, Andrew...
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The American Indian Policy was first formulated during the 19th century to allow people in the United States to make good trade with the native Tribes for crops and other materials. Therefore, people who were in the federal government had the power to make deals with the native Tribes with the authority of the Constitution. With that being said, if anything were to go wrong, the U.S. government needed to be in charge of any situation.They didn’t want non-whites to...
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I am against having a statue to commemorate the pioneers, since they did more bad than good to North America. The pioneers did horrific things to Native Americans like forcing them off their land, and murdering nearly almost all of the tribes. The greed of pioneers led much suffering for Native Americans, who were left nearly nothing. The pioneers did built the United States into what it is today, but at the cost of ripping land of people who were...
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What comes to mind when you hear the term ‘primary source’? When I hear primary source, I immediately think of direct evidence of something or someone. A primary source is a source that derives from a person or something that has personal experience or contact with something. Do you believe primary sources are always vital? I do believe primary sources are vital, but I believe they are most important when it comes to gathering verifiable information relating to history. What...
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The Sioux Wars can be summed up as the heist of land and the theft of the way of life for indegeous Americans. Years of suffering and mistreatment on Native Americans lasted 100s of years.. Many others in the midwest area faced the same fate like Ho Chunk, Oneida, Menommine, Ojibwe and many more. The Trail of Tears is an example of blood shed from the relocation of Native Americans. To some people, these events are seen as missing links...
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