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    United States. (Keenan) But was he really a self-made man? He was a president who owned slaves and was a slave trader. He used his slaves to do his labor and they were the ones who collected much of his fortune. And later when he directed the Indian Removal Act, he used that stolen land to expand his cotton farming and slavery. By having Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, we are honoring him and everything that comes with him. A historian once said that a human cannot possibly be a good person if…

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    essay Expansionism on the American and South African Frontiers, compares the mandatory elimination of Native Americans to the trans- Mississippi West with the coinciding Great Trek of South Africa’s Boer settlers. The key to understanding American Indian policy between 1790 and 1830 is not the policy advocating for different racial groups, but the fact that the government was responsible to a white electorate that was persuaded that the fate…

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    one of the many nations and tribes removed from their land during the Indian Removal Act of 1830.These members have traveled all over the states before they finally made home in present day Shawnee, Oklahoma. Where they came from, who they were, and what has changed in the Potawatomi Nation. First of all, The Potawatomi Nation was a great tribe that started in the Wabash River valley of Indiana. When the Indian Removal acts after the 1833 Treaty of Chicago they were forced to move to the new…

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    In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. This gave the federal government the right to force the Cherokee nation into giving up all of its land east of the Mississippi River. The plan was for the Native Americans to migrate west to an area that today is known as Oklahoma. The Indians negotiated with the government for reimbursement of their ancestor’s hard work and investments.The government would give them $5 million for all of their land east of the Mississippi River,…

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    The history of slave records in the United States of America during 1790 withstands the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, as well as the “Indian Removal Act of 1830”. During the era of the Declaration of Independence slaves were treated unjustly as to white males. During a slave's life, they were mistreated, worked in harsh climates and were put upon hard hours as opposed to white people. Slaves worked on plantations. Unlike, the north, the south had more plantations. Therefore…

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    executive power to enforce the federal power of the laws that he chose to enforce while others he gave the states more power over enforcement. He also owned more than 300 slaves in his life time which he treated poorly and he acted like a friend to the Indians but then forced them out west. Jackson believed that extending the charter of the Second Bank of the United States was a form of blackmail toward his reelection and vetoed the bill, which later resulted in the Panic of 1837. Jackson might…

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    than savages. President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830, which led to the forced migration of the Cherokee from their homelands to Oklahoma, proved that all tribes would struggle to retain their land. The belief of manifest destiny originating in 1845 spurred the expansionist impulse to disperse through the western territories obtained in the Mexican cession. The exodus of white emigrators into the west was met with opposition from Plains Indians, triggering…

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    Indian Removal Act In 1828 Andrew Jackson had own presidency and had succeed by changing things with the government. One of many was him having a special relationship with the common people. He removed about 10 percent of workers and replaced with loyal friends and followers. In the 1800’s Native Americans had been living next to white neighbors, taking on their culture. The white settlers had wanted the Native Americans land for farming. Jackson had decided to remove all Native Americans from…

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    The Trail of Tears occurred in 1830 when President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Indian tribes were forced off their land and moved to Oklahoma. Thousands of Native Americans died on this trip. The white man hated the Indians; therefore, they forced the Native Americans to move. However, to understand the full extent of this hatred we need to look back at when the colonist first came in 1607 to establish Jamestown, Virginia was settled. We also need to look at the…

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    Politics and culture in America has always been evolving by either social, economic, or by political parties. It has continually changed since it’s founding in America. At the heart of democracy, and changes that would happen, the expansion of voting rights for white men from the “white male suffrage”. As white males won the right to vote and political parties came more organized, the aspect of American politics and culture changed. At the beginning of the early politics of America was very…

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