Seminole

As a result, America succeeded into its first modern election, in the four years since the election in 1824, new voters were added to the electoral roles as property ownership was no longer a requirement to vote. In 1828 Jackson won the presidential race. Historian, George M. Frederickson, in his 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…

Should Andrew Jackson be removed from the $20 bill? This is a highly debated topic by many people now days. Many people disagree with the actions of Andrew Jackson. Some say he was an awful person for slaughtering thousands others say he was an amazing person for expanding westward and bringing us to the country we know today. The answer is Andrew Jackson should be removed from the $20 bill for the acts of crime he has committed. Not only did Andrew Jackson force thousands of Native Americans to…

Cool Korn As I sat down with one of the coaches, who is the defensive backs coach on the Tennessee State University (TSU) football staff, I noticed how Coach Korn reminded me of myself. My interviewee was Coach Korn, since I play offensive line, he is not one of my coaches. Coach Korn and I have had our occasional hi and bye’s, but until this interview I knew not much of him. I noticed a few things, one being that he has been interviewed before because when we sat down he showed no…

BOOM! You hear a scream, not just any scream, but your mom’s scream. The ceiling collapses on you, drywall bits infiltrate your eyes and your vision betrays you; you cannot see a thing. You continue to hear the screams of your family, no longer just your mom, but your younger siblings. All of your senses are on high alert—you hear so many noises you cannot pick out any one noise. You cannot see anything but as you feel about, you feel bits of your home, your world; it is in pieces. You…

The Indian Removal The Indian removal was unfair and unjust against the Indians and their children. Is the Indian removal just and fair. I will be talking about how it is unfair to the Indians and their children and how it was unfair or unjust to the indians to remove them from their homes were there ancestors lived and raised their grandparents. The indians were removed from their home because many white settlers wanted more land to farm and just to live on the U.S. was growing…

1. Andrew Jackson’s Biographer Jon Meacham writes early unfortunate experiences of war and losing all his family, being dependent on relatives and at their mercy at an impressionable age influenced in shaping his character and life. “A gambler. And a carouser” as a young man, Meacham notes that Jackson matured into “a formidable leader of men”. (source 1) He was born to Andrew Jackson Sr.and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Irish immigrants, who settled between North and South Carolina, near…

In May 1814 he became Major General of the army. On January 8, 1815, he overpowered the British in New Orleans and was praised as a hero. Jackson also served in the 1st Seminole War (1817-19) when he defeated the Spanish Governor in Florida. Andrew Jackson was a lawyer in North Carolina and then went on to Tennessee to establish a different life style. In 1796, he assisted at the convention that created the Tennessee Constitution…

The Battle of Palo Alto took place on May 8, 1846 and lasted only 3 hours. The battle is marked as the first major engagement between Mexico and America during the Mexican-American war even though the battle took place days before America declared war on Mexico. The battle was short lived, proving the American artillery tactics and armament far superior to that of Mexico. The number of casualties Mexico took during this short battle was more than double that of America. Zachary Taylor, an…

It’s stated that the US government, “Responding to the clamoring of whites in Mississippi, Georgia and Florida, they uprooted the so-called five “Civilized Tribes” of the south, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Seminoles and Cherokees and moved them to western Oklahoma.” (Davis 49). Just a mere example of what the US was willing to do out of its own economic interests, the relocation of these tribes benefitted them because it allowed them to close conflicts in the…

In the early 1800s, the Everglades were largely uncontrolled and inhabited by the Indigenous Seminole people. After the Seminole war in the 1830s Florida joined the United States, and in 1850 the Swamplands Act was passed, which gave all undesirable swamplands in the new state to the US Government who could then sell it to the highest bidder (Light et al., 1994)…