Andrew Jackson

them assimilate. Georgia, 1827, Americans keep extending their jurisdiction over the Cherokee territory and continuously passing laws that would abolish Cherokee infrastructure. Their land is claimed and given to white Georgians. 1828, President Jackson is elected and immediately sets sight on Cherokees, two years later comes the Indian Removal Act of 1830 where the Federal government…

James Beckwourth passed away October 29, 1866 of mysterious causes along the Bighorn River. He was born in Virginia on April 6, 1798. He was the third child of thirteen children. His mother was an African American slave and his father was English. James was born into slavery and became free when he was an adult. During his younger years he was a blacksmith and later in life he went to work for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. James married two different women, they were both Blackfoot Indian…

The American Flag Many years ago, Betsy Ross was approached by three men and asked to create the first American flag as a symbol of our nation. Betsy was born and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was good at sewing and even claimed to have done some tailoring for George Washington. In late May of seventeen seventy-six, some men came to the house where Betsy Ross was to ask her to sew an American flag. These men were George Washington, Robert Morris, and George Ross. George Washington was…

Sam Houston is considered by most to be the real father of Texas. What did he do for Texas? Who is he? Why so important? This article will answer all of those questions and more. In his early life young Sam Houston was quite the troublemaker in fact, he ran away from home at a very young age! Houston’s father died at the age of thirteen and soon after Houston would run away from home to go live with the Cherokee Indians. The chief became Houston’s adopted father and he was given the Cherokee…

For several years, the idea of people coming over to a previously uninhabited land full of new rewards brought thousands of immigrants to the frontier lands. With this notion of moving west, many politicians acclaimed that this was America’s right to conquer from Atlantic to Pacific and that it was justifiable by Manifest Destiny. In addition to the influx of immigrants causing a population boom, new technologies stimulated improved communications and transportation that brought several more…

Jefferson's views of westward expansion and Native Americans Jefferson considered Westward expansion as the answer to the country’s health. He reckoned that a republic’s survival was dependent on a sovereign, upright citizenry and that virtue and independence went in tandem with land ownership. He esteemed the country’s expansion as the best means to uphold this ideal of a virtuous populace as this was the only way to provide the citizenry with enough land. Jefferson associated land ownership,…

Juan Seguin is military figure of the Texas Revolution and Republic of Texas and was a leader of a militia that rebelled the Mexican army.Juan was born in he was born in San Antonio on October 27, 1806, and was the elder of two sons,Juan José María Erasmo Seguín and María Josefa Becerra.Juan Seguin never went to school as a kid and his only education was from his father encouraging him to read and write.When he grew up, he married he married María Gertrudis Flores de Abrego at the age of…

How old do you think Pawnee Females have to be to get married? Most of the Pawnee people are found in Nebraska and Kansas. We are going to be talking about the Pawnee location , tradition, and facts of life. The Pawnee People were mostly located in Nebraska And Kansas, they lived in houses called Earthern houses. These are hut type houses they made out of large logs and covered but dried grass or other type of bushes. The Pawnee people were moved from there reservation in Oklahoma to…

What has been the general relationship between the Federal Bureau of Reclamation and the Western States and their politicians? The relationship between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Western States is that of disagreement and compromise. According to the source “Watershed: A Separate Totality”, in chapter one, as the Administration’s review teams worked to finalize their recommendations on the water projects, in 1977, there were certain interests at work within the government that were not in…

The Modocs were a group of Native Americans who lived secluded in the northeastern side of California near Oregon “near Mt. Shasta”. They lived a quiet lifestyle hunting and gathering off the land, one day white settlers “U.S Army” came and decided to force the Modoc people into reservations off of their native volcanic lava bed land. These Modoc people lead by “Captain Jack “ first were peaceful and tried to deal on these reservations they were forced upon but after they were tired of being…