Seminole

on to the British in New Orleans, and he gained a victory, despite his odds of being outnumbered two-to-one. He then was named a national hero, and was given a gold medal for his victory. Later, Jackson was called back into service for the First Seminole War, which he invaded Florida, and captured Pensacola once again, but this time he also captured St. Mark’s as well. He also overthrew the governor, José Masot, and had two men executed. That brought up protests from the Spanish government, and…

Federalism, the division of government into two sovereign powers (the national and state governments), is based in the Constitution and has been affirmed by the Supreme Court’s interpretations as to what the Constitution requires. While the 10th Amendment is the only portion of the Constitution that expressly addresses the division of authoritative rights, many other sections of the Constitution affirm the importance of federalism and justify rules enacted in its protection. Some…

Tobias MacIvey: Tobias MacIvey moved to Punta Rassa, Florida, from Georgia after the Civil War. He serves as the leader in this novel. He continues to raise his family down in Florida. His family goes through a rough patch and struggles, but then they become extremely successful from growing orange groves to sell and herding cattle. Tobias has an understanding and loving heart that goes out to people in need of work. He treats his fellow workers like family. He becomes weak and dies from malaria…

These five great nations were civilized Indian nations and was adopting a lot of the white’s way of lives while still maintaining their own culture. These nations where the Cherokee, the Seminole, the Choctaw, the Creek, and the Chickasaw. When these five nations or tribes learned about the Indian removal act they were infuriated. They had already done many things in the past to become more civilized or more like the whites in order to stay…

How Manifest Destiny Change the Americas In the nineteenth century, the average American believed in the popular slogan Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the belief that God had predestined the people of America to expand across the continent of North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. In the eighteenth century, the belief in Manifest Destiny no only made a way for physical expansion but also political, social, and economic aspects of the early United States as well. The…

Flying Skills 1. AT 14500 In this course I learned by far the most knowledge in my aviation career. I had an instructor who helped me (someone with no aviation background) to become a private pilot in several months. This took many bike rides out to the airport for ground lesson after ground lesson and flight after flight. At the end of this course I thought I had obtained a lot of information but my training had just begun. 2. AT 24300 In this course I was able to really start perfecting…

people can throw. The game of baseball started a long time ago and it was a lot different than it is now. Baseball was said to be invented 1839 by a man named Abner Doubleday. Abner was in the military. He served in the Mexican American and the Seminole wars. He also fought in the Civil war at Fort Sumter. He invented the game in Cooperstown, New York, which is now the site of the…

The first college I did research on was the university of Florida which is also my number one choice for the college I want to go to. University of Florida or UF home of the gators located in Gainesville Florida was recently ranked number 14 of all the university’s in the country, it is very big in athletics, science and in the medical field. UF also has many opportunities such as jobs, honor programs in fact more than 3,400 UF students participate in these honor programs they also have many…

Oppression against Native Americans has been the longest held racism in the United States. The horrors that Natives endure span hundreds of years from the first arrival of European settlers to the modern era in which they have to protest for their right to clean water. Native Americans continue to persevere and face tremendous challenges to cope with the disadvantages history has left them. To this day, Native Americans are the most harshly affected by relocation, institutionalized racism, and…

In America, we love to gamble. Whether it is on sports, dogs, horses, or cars, or even if it is in a casino- we cannot get enough of it. There are about fifteen hundred casinos in the country, scattered from one side of the continent to the other. That is more casinos than any other in the states, and most go all out to make each and every patron welcome and go the extra mile to make everyone feel like a superstar. Most are more than just a simple place to gamble, but they also have shows, a bar…