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    for the Indian Removal Act. The goal of this act was to allow the United States access to the lands East of the Mississippi river. There were many different reasons why Congress decided to pass this act, however the primary reason was because the Indians were sitting on large reserves of untouched riches and minerals. This act, however, went against the law, and was highly immoral because it was taking over lands which did not belong to the United States, and involved kicking the Indians out…

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    social justice issues. In 1894, James Fraser sculpted a clay model of an Indian…

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    athletes known for key attributes. In Jackson's case it was his natural hitting ability. Too this day Jackson holds the batting average for a player in the rookie season. In 1911 Jackson was traded to the cleveland Naps known now as the Cleveland Indians and recorded the best rookie batting average of all time at .408. Jackson continued to record outstanding amazing batting averages throughout his career. If Jackson had not been banned from the 1920s he would have gone down as one of the…

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    shake, crying for the missed time we will never make back, crying to release the tension of these ten long years. “Come with me. There is something I want to do.” We walked home. Mum was spread out on the leather sofa, with martinis, watching an Indian…

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    the 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…

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    The Navajo and Apache Tribes are descendants from other Native Peoples from Northern Canada. Both Tribes have their own unique history which can be used still to this day especially because both the Navajo, and Apache arrived in what is known today as the Great Plains prior to Spain and Europe settlements. Navajo, meaning "the people," used their horses to attack the Europeans. Out of the Navajo, and Apache tribes, the Navajo would win the "most settled" award as they made dwelling and shelter…

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    It was a warm dry sunny day, in San Francisco where the CIncinnati Reds were taking the field for practise. There was someone named Billy. He was a very kind, thoughtful, and sweet person. He looked a little different than other people. He had a mental disability. Even though he had a mental disability he was the best player at the practise by far, and everybody knew. A couple hours later there was another player who came, his name was Josh. When Josh had arrived he overheard people saying that…

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    also a series of Indian affairs going on that were known as the Indian Wars. The Plains Indians were settled out West were the United States kicked the Indians to, but now the United States is coming back wanting more land to put the railroads and telegraphs. The lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century was significantly different and affected by the technological developments and the government’s actions. The…

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    Portugal -1415 -conquered Moroccan port of Ceuta and sponsored a series of voyages down the West African coast. - established trading posts at Sao Jorge da Mina, West Africa -1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope and entered the Indian Oceans. b) Vasco da Gama -Portuguese -1497, went to India -trade gold with peppers - trading post at Calicut, 1500 c) Christopher Columbus, - Genoese mariner Cristoforo Colombo, known in English as Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) -…

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    September 28. The grand jury brought charges against the eight members of the White Sox team. It stunned the nation, although they still watched the trial very closely. The players soon became known as the “Black Sox.” The grand jury and conspiracy trials were a very important part of baseball history because of all of the gambling scandals. Sox pitchers “Lefty” Williams and Eddie Cicotte both had confessed to the grand jury about their involvement in the scandal. The jury’s biggest issue…

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