Georgia

Jackson knew we were over populating an were doing us a favor by killings all those people. Lastly, the Cherokee Indians would like to thank Andrew Jackson because when we one the Worcester vs Georgia case, which stated the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which the laws of Georgia had no force, Georgia decided to ignore the court ruling and kick us off. Jackson smartly did nothing about it and agreed to kick us…

1830’s, it had only been a few decades since America had been founded.The white settlers who were new to the land began to explore it with intent to claim it as their own territory. Tens of thousands of Native Americans lived on millions of acres of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida land that their ancestors have lived on for many generations. The land that they lived on were valuable, containing an abundance of minerals for growing cotton.The immigrants from Europe only…

were forced to move to the Indian Territory (Golden Ink). The government established that it was time for the Indians to be forcefully removed when gold was found in northern Georgia (Golden Ink).The Cherokee lived in the western part of Georgia for an extended period of time when gold was discovered in the Northern Georgia mountains, it had been previously searched for by Hernando Desoto to no avail (Golden Ink). The discovery of precious gold immediately preceded the creation and passage of…

covers 3900 km2 (Hoch et al., 2014). From the 19th century, Ossetians were given a pro-Russian orientation due to their geography and Orthodox Church (De Waal, 2010). During the period from January 1991 to June 1992 the war between South Ossetia and Georgia took place. The result of this war were thousands of casualties, hundreds of lost and massive migrations of people. The political outcome of the war was a new de facto state of South Ossetia (Hoch et al., 2014). The Russian army was…

For many years in the newly developing America, there was a lot of debate about what to do with the so called “Indian problem”. Americans sought out various ways to remove the Indian population from lands in the east and eventually the west too as they continued to expand. There were four primary ideas that were proposed: to exterminate the Indian population, to assimilate them into American culture, to protect them on their ancestral lands (which just wasn’t likely to happen), or to move them…

Manifest Destiny was not benevolent, but an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others because America spreaded its boundaries over a vast area. The removal of the Indians, possession of Oregon and Texas, as well as the Mexican War, were all results of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was an. aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others due to events similar to the removal of Indians. William Henry Harrison was a congressional delegate from the…

major law that Jackson enforced. It stated that the president could relocate the newly civilized Native Americans west of the Mississippi River while the Americans could have control over the land that the Native Americans had previously occupied in Georgia and Florida. Although the removal of Native Americans was supposed to be done fairly, Andrew Jackson and his government ignored the law in order to get more benefits from the situation. The five main tribes that were relocated were the…

they were forcibly removed from their lands. To prevent this from happening, the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia Supreme Court case in 1831, assured that the Cherokees could remain in Georgia without any interference by the government. This meant that their homelands and lives could not be subject to the state of Georgia making their lands “sovereign nations”. A year later, the Worchester v. Georgia Supreme Court ruling was also initiated by Cherokees. The Cherokees goal was to keep their lands…

Union General William T. Sherman led 60,000 troops from November 15 till December 21 on a 285 mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. It was also known as the Savanna Campaign. The purpose was to scare the Georgia citizens out of the Confederate cause. After he lost Atlanta, the Confederates headed west into Tennessee and Alabama attacking Union supply lines as they went. Sherman's soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, they just stole food and livestock, then burned…

The United States in the 19th Century was at the finest moment in their history as they entered into a new political, economic, and social movement that would build America to what it is today. In the early parts of the century, we had purchased incredible amounts of vast land, won a war against the most powerful country in the world, and started an early landmark movement called the Industrial Revolution, the start to what would be known as manifest destiny later in the century. Andrew…