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Kool Klux Klan In the 1920 the Kool Klux Klan (aka KKK) population sored to an out standing 4 million people. It was said that any person that was supposed to be considered good citizen in the south was a member of the KKK. The KKK was also going north and recruiting people in the north. This is pretty amazing thinking about how many people in the United States were part of the Kool Klux Klan and only about 200 people were lynched. You would think that a greater amount of black people would have…

give up its lands east of the Mississippi river and to migrate to an arena in present-day Oklahoma. The Indians suffered starvation, harsh weather conditions, and many kinds of sicknesses. Nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. President George Washington wanted to civilize the Indians. The Indians would have had to learn to speak the language of Americans, convert to being a Christian, learn to read English, and adopt European…

Since the arrival of white settlers the Natives lost not only their lands, but their identities, culture, beliefs, and freedom. In 1928, the Institute for Government Research, at the request of the Secretary of the Interior, organized a team to gather information and report the conditions of the natives across the country, this become known as the Meriam Report (Galloway 2012). The realities of the laws and policies enacted by Congress, such as the Dawes act, showed how horrific the Natives…

at the age of 13, he joined a local regiment in the Revolutionary War. The British captured Jackson, and as a prisoner he was forced into cleaning a British officer’s boots. Jackson read law for two years before becoming an exceptional lawyer in Tennessee. He was then appointed as the state’s constitutional convention representative, and 12 months later, he became a U.S. senator. The election of 1828 was a return to a two party system, and Jackson decisively defeated John Quincy Adams. His…

As per my The history of the American West is often overshadowed by the romantic mythology surrounding the era. It would be hard to ignore the influence of Sam Houston on many aspects of American history from Tennessee to Washington and of course, his adopted home of Texas. Campbell seems to fall into the trap of many biographers and veer off the course of serious historian, presenting us instead with an easy to read novel presenting his hero as larger than life. The life of Sam Houston does…

was a group of southern resistance and white supremacists that were ultra-conservative against the forces of diversity, equality, and modernity that was transforming American culture. They were founded as a post civil war group in 1866 in Pulaski Tennessee, by confederate veterans. Nathan Bedford Forrest was chosen as their first leader or “grand wizard”. Now the first two words of the name Ku Klux is said to derive from a Greek word “Kyklos” meaning circle. Which is fitting to the idea of the…

Starting in 1851 and continuing for three decades, U.S. bureaucrats generated several policies for the solution to the "Indian problem." The U.S. government purposely consolidated Native American societies by using treaties, coercion, and military force.255 Commissioner of Indian Affairs Luke Lea set forth the doctrine in 1851 by calling for the Indians' "concentration, their domestication, and their incorporation." Reservations were the instruments to achieve this goal.256 There were forces…

of New Orleans. After that he ran for president but lost election, he tried again and he won. Next he passed the Indian Removal Act. While the Indian Removal act was trying to get passed he came up with the Spoil System. Then he died in 1845 in Tennessee. The 20 dollar bill. It was created in 1861, but at first Andrew Jackson was not on there. The first person that was on the 20 dollar bill was Alexander Stephens, Vice- President of the Confederate States, and women. I wonder why did they ever…

This Allotment Act intended to dissolve the collective relationship to land that was fundamental of traditional cultures by imposing the allegedly superior Anglo-Saxon system of individuated property ownership . Allotments of land was not a new idea. It was, at the time, in place for the Indians to take up a plot of land and to farm like their white neighbors. The first indication that allotments might become a national policy in the U.S, was with President Chester Arthur. Arthur would deliver…

Envision a world where you are forced away from your homeland by people you don’t even know, then to be put onto a different land that you can’t even live on. Well, this was reality for the Native Americans in Western Washington. In 1887, The Dawes Act was conceived from a congressman, Henry Dawes. The Dawes Act purpose was to give each head of a Native American family an allotment of land which they would farm and learn how to live a “civilized” life on. The Dawes Act was not an honest attempt…