Seminole

“The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.” States James Monroe during his presidency. This quote conveys how strong James Monroe is during the First Seminole War in 1817. It was a battle over Florida involving the Seminole Indians, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States. Throughout every battle, James Monroe inspired his citizens and army. James Monroe was an excellent man, but he had a background just like every other person. He was…

The Cherokee Are People Too In the book The Cherokee Removal, the author argued that most of the Americans did not want the Cherokee nation to be considered equal and wanted them removed. The American people tormented the Cherokees and tried to break their spirits. The Americans thought that if the Cherokee people could be dispossessed, that they would have agreed to the removal (Purdue, 84). The Americans disrespected them and made laws that harassed them. White people moved onto their land…

Andrew Jackson was a very controversial President. There are multiple positives and negatives to Andrew Jackson. Andrew is America’s great worst President. I am going to discuss and tell you if you he was a good or bad President is his term from March 4, 1829- March 4, 1837. Before Andrew Jackson was President, he had nine slaves. By the time he was a President he had nearly 150 slaves. He was given the title of an Elite Planter. Andrew Jackson had many negatives in his life. One of the most…

Indian Removal Act In the early 1800’s, America was a country of great hope and future promises. The colonies had just broken away from the monarchy of Great Britain and declared the independent of the United States of America. The people of Europe fled to America during this time in search of religious freedom and a new beginning. From the beginning of their arrival in America, the colonists began pushing the Native Americans west. In the early years, before America won its independence, they…

Indians from removal. The Choctaws were the first to sign a removal treaty. Some chose to stay in Mississippi under the terms of the Removal Act, yet most still ended up selling their land and moving west because of mistreatment from the whites. The Seminoles refused to leave, which lead to two more wars, killing many Indians and whites. The Creeks also refused to emigrate. They signed a treaty in March, 1832, which opened a large portion of their land to white settlement, but guaranteed them…

excavations were done to prove the story that everyone thought to be true about Bulow; they would look for artifacts, jewelry, and tools to give some insight on what life might have been like nearly 200 years ago. Around January 11, 1836, the Seminoles in the Second Seminole War burned the Bulow Plantation and other plantations in the area. John…

America is often described as melting pot. However, I believe America is better described as a mosaic with the different people and different cultures meshing together but still maintaining their distinctness. Each group that makes up America has their own story to tell. Within the social foundations of American education, there is the plight of African Americans fighting to end the racial segregation of schools; Native Americans pushing back against the efforts to assimilate them, Catholics who…

Review of Literature: Origin Stories Across Cultures Origin stories have been prevalent for centuries and even before the religion of Christianity. Jerimiah Curtin defines origin stories as “the detailed and circumstantial account of the world and all the things and creatures contained in it” (Curtin ix). However, the Christian Bible is a primary source for it has similar correlations to many origin stories and is well-known around the world. The book of Genesis is the first of the Christian…

Manifest Destiny is the 19th century idea and belief that it was America’s destiny to spread all the way from the east coast to the west coast. Manifest Destiny, however, was not an objectively good idea. To many, such as Native Americans, Latin American Government Officials, and Northern Abolitionists, the idea was infuriating and seen as unjust, but Americans disregarded these sentiments and kept migrating west. When Andrew Jackson was president, there were about 250,000 Native…

Since 1980’s, there has been a sharp increase in crime rate in the Seminole area and this rate is still rising not as fast as before but it is still going up. One example is George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin case. This case was nationally reported and broadcasted throughout the entire nation for a while. Martin was walking…