Journey to the West

Those people should be thankful for the Louisiana Purchase. Thomas Jefferson was the president at the time who had bought the "New Land". People from the Thirteen colonies immigrated to the new territory and lead them to an adventurous journey moving to the west. In 1803, the purchase was made by Thomas Jefferson. "When President Thomas Jefferson closed on this $15 million real estate deal with French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, his stock began to rise, while the hopes of a return to office for…

attention during the second half of the nineteenth century. This period, commonly referred to as the Wild West, was the time in which cowboys represented the area. This period, however, was also the time in which excessive crime and violence characterized the area. With the opportunities to start farms and ranches and mine precious metals, thousands of Americans on the east coast began to move west. As a result, numerous small towns quickly erupted across the western states. However, many of…

The Indian removal movement of 1830 started because Americans were moving west and acquiring land to settle, but the Indians became the obstacle. Another factor that made the Americans to remove the Cherokees was, because of the gold that Georgians had found in Cherokee’s land. The government would make treaties, but the government would not fully follow the treaties. While the Americans moved west, they introduced diseases, but this was not enough to wipe out the tribes, war was the answer. It…

In Robert Morgan’s book, “Lions of the West”, it explains the journey of moving and life in the west starting with Thomas Jefferson’s birth through Westward Expansion to the Indian Wars of the west. Morgan also talks about how Jefferson wasn’t the only person to push Westward Expansion to what it is today; sure some politicians and others like Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Sam Houston all contributed to the push for Westward Expansion. Jackson’s push to Westward Expansion was on…

or just fighting over irrelevant things. One of the unforgettable events with Americans and the Native Americans was the Trail of Tears which involves the Cherokee nation. When the Americans moved the indians off of the eastern lands and moved them west, it killed off of thousands of Native Americans making it a very memorable and important impact on American history. Strictly defined, the Trail of Tears is the main route or routes that the Cherokees took from the Southeast to the land the U.S.…

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are very well-known for for their cross-country journey, where they met and traveled with Sacagawea, a native American woman from the Shoshone tribe. She acted as a translator and guide for the expedition. They made countless great discoveries, including many native tribes, not all of which were friendly. The group was composed of not just Lewis and Clark, but rather 31 members. Each member had their own unique specialty, such as woodworking or mapmaking, Lewis…

States would do such a thing especially with a patriotic history. The Trail of Tears (1838–1839) was an eight hundred mile journey from the southern Appalachians to Indian Territory. Over 17,000 Cherokee had been evicted and 4,000, possibly more, died along the way. This was not only from harsh weather condition, starvation, and disease, but also military treatment along the journey. The conflict between Native Americans and white settlers have been traced all the way back to the first…

Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family is forced to leave their home in Oklahoma and move west to California in the hopes of finding work. Throughout their journey to California, the Joads are faced with many obstacles and are forced to make tough decisions along the way. The hope for a better life in California and the promise of the new baby in the family allows the Joads to overcome these hardships. During their entire journey to California, the Joad family hoped that it would be much better there…

comes from the title of Aime Cesaire’s poem about colonized West Indian people and a journey back to their homeland. The translated version would read, “Notebook of a return to one’s land of birth.” The first two lines of this poem set the theme of the speaker returning to his roots in the form of his poem. The inclusion of this title in its original language is deliberate. He wants to evoke the struggle of those Britan has colonized (ie West Indians) to showcase how the return to his roots is…

concern the individual characters means of survival throughout their many hardships that occur on the journey that they all take. Through a discovery of culture, knowledge, religion, skills and self-discovery the characters each finds a means to survive their navigating through the middle passage or in the case of the book of poems by Natasha Trethewey self-acceptance to survive in their individual journeys. In the terms of each of the novels the term “othered” bodies are a means of…