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    “Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” states poet and novelist Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Courageous and strong-willed characters are shown throughout many works of literature- but it is often debated on whether or not their actions are courageous and noble or thoughtless and irrational. This conflict is prevalent in readers of Into The Wild by John Krakauer- a true story of how a young man, Chris McCandless, left society and ventured into nature to travel to Alaska…

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    Document 17-4 Analysis

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    The document that I selected to analyze is document 17-4. Document 17-4 was written by In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat, or Chief Joseph, and was written in 1879. The reason as to why the document was written, was because Chief Joseph was explaining himself to the Americans all the things that have been done to him and his tribe both in past and in present in great detail and explaining to the Americans that he and his tribe members are the victims. A historical theme that is related to this document is…

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    Chapter 9: Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears began with the removal of the Indians. When white settlers began to move westward, they ran into the Native Americans which were known as the Five Civilized Tribes. The Five Civilized Tribes were Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminoles. These tribes and civilizations had very much impressed missionaries in New England. President Monroe and President Adams had formed many treaties with the idea of the voluntary movement of these Indian…

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    King Philips War was the last Native American attempt to push off the invading whites from America. Their efforts were left in vain; however, it did inflate the most destruction on a white population in American history. The Native Americans problems and reasons for getting rid of the colonists were based from the lack of land, since more settlers kept pouring into their region, and competition for resources needed for survival. Nevertheless, the biggest problem, and what I believe became the…

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    Ohio River Research Paper

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    The Ohio River begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River, extending roughly 900 miles downstream and ending in Cairo, Illinois. It is the largest tributary of the Mississippi River on the basis of volume. Throughout time, the Ohio River has been called many names by different civilizations. The Shawnees called it Spaylaywitheepi, the Miami tribes- Causisseppione, the Delawares- Kitonosipi, the Spanish- Dono and Albacha, and the French-…

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    The Sioux Indians came to North America from Asia about 30,000 years ago. The name Sioux actually means “little snake”, which was given to them by the Chippewa Indians. Sioux were nomadic, meaning that they never stayed in one place for an extended period. Typically they followed the pattern of the buffalo, making sure there would be food and clothing wherever they traveled. The Sioux made the mistake of becoming close with the westward thrust of American expansion at a time when the American…

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    Essay On Indian Removal

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    The Forced relocation of Native Americans better known as the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Dawes Act and the Indian new deal of 1924. The U.S policies stated towards Native Americans affected them greatly in the 18th and 19th century but continue to impact their lives today. The Indian removal act of 1830, implemented by President Andrew Jackson was placed to force Native Americans to leave their homelands and settle in the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, in my opinion…

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    Being an American means more than just being given an opportunity to live freely. There are numerous hardships that one must strongly endure to call themselves a full-fledged American. Discrimination in the United States was always prevalent in history; however, it reached a high during the 1870s, around the time the Jim Crow Laws had been established in the United States. From then on, America has made steps to reduce this, but it only became worse for minorities before it got better. They had…

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    Rome, Georgia Geography

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    Creek and the Cherokee Indians. The land was very fertile and had good hunting ground for deer and other game. When gold was discovered in Dahlonega, Georgia, the Indians land was claimed by the legislature of Georgia and they were driven away on the Trail of Tears. Rome was founded in 1834. It was in a good area because…

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    1830, east of the Mississippi, you are a little Indian boy in the midst of playing with his friends on a nice clear day. Suddenly, white soldiers pour into your territory. Those men abruptly pushed you out of your home along with your family. Amongst the yelling of the white soldiers, you hear gunshots echo through your camp. Fellow tribe members fall to the ground, buried in their desperateness to keep their homes. This was called the Indian Removal Act. However, what was the big reason to…

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