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The event that most affectedly brought the end to the Indian Wars against the United States Army, is when the Congress passed the Dawes Act. Due to many arguments facing the government, like, the concept that many reformers inferred about the dream of conforming the Indians into a piece of the white culture. The Dawes Act, divided reservations into around 160 acres per family to live in, where the remainder of land would be given to the surrounding white settlements. Although, the Dawes Act…

Weegee was not known by that name until later on in his life through series of jobs. His birth name was Usher Fellig, and he was the second of seven children. He was born on 1899 in the former Austrian province of Galicia, which is now a part of Ukraine. His family was poor, so that made his work ethic better since he understood you need money to live. His work ethic was proven to be strong throughout his life until his death in 1968. Fellig’s name was Americanized to Arthur when he moved to…

Was Andrew Jackson a “People's President”? In those days until now you wouldn’t expect a person that was in deep poverty to become a powerful,wealthy, president or would you?. Well those perspectives were then outlawed by one person may not be the only one but perhaps one of the most interesting . Jackson was orphaned at just the age of 13 years old left alone to become of his own he then strived for the greater good and became a wealthy successful man. Yet some people didn’t favor him…

Henry Massie Rector was the state’s sixth governor. He was part of Arkansas’s political dynasty during the antebellum period, but he was not always comfortable in that role and played a part in its downfall. Henry Rector was born on May 1, 1816, at Fontaine’s Ferry near Louisville, Kentucky, to Elias Rector and Fannie Bardell Thurston. He was the only one of their children to survive to maturity. Elias Rector, one of the numerous Rectors who worked as deputy surveyors under William Rector, the…

The Trail of Tears In the beginning years of 1830s, close to 130,000 Native Americans occupied a couple million acres of land across the southern states. Their ancestors had cultivated this land for generations. By the end of the 1830s, Native Americans were forced by the government, to uproot their lives and transfer to a specific area set aside as “Indian territory”, now known as Oklahoma. White settlers has stumbled upon the Indians’ land and wanted to grow cotton on their…

Destructive Behaviors of the Cherokee People Kristin Quick Drury University Abstact Cherokee Indians represent a troubled minority due to the tide of white settlers seeking instant wealth. The Cherokee people were considered a threat to the advancement of economic and social betterment of American citizens therefore they were forced from their homelands with just the clothes on their backs to live on new unprepared land. During this process the Cherokee people suffered every…

As the United States sought to expand its territory ever westward in accordance with the country’s belief in Manifest Destiny, the Native American tribes disrupted had but two options: fight a futile resistance or accept their disconsolate fate. While some chiefs formed uprisings resulting in much causality for the Indigenous people, others called for the end of hostilities with the government in Washington. Seattle, a Squamish and Duwamish chief, delivered a speech in 1847 that embraced the…

Essay on Colin Calloway, We Have Always Been the Frontier: The American Revolution in Shawnee Country. The Shawnee Indians has resisted the Americans and fought for their own revolutionary war for two decades before and after the American Revolutionary War. They had been “fighting for their freedom long before Lexington and, as for many Indian peoples, the Revolution renewed and intensified familiar pressures on their lands and culture” (Nichols, 118). The Shawnee leader Cornstalk united the…

time we still are battling the issue of racism periodically. In the movie Remember the Titans racism in the town leads to a struggle with becoming a real football team. Remember the Titans is a movie of courage and strength. The team has to overcome the challenges to becoming an interracial team, in hopes of becoming the winning team. Racism and football in a southern community is the storyline of Remember the Titans. Back in Virginia of 1971 the desegregation among schools was taken place. The…

Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin, is a film set in Alexandria, Virginia. At this time, 1971, the first high school was undergoing integration and neither race, black or white, was pleased. Remember the Titans is about the fight and the journey it takes to be successful, not just as a football team, but as people as well. The team struggled for two main reasons; having to play with people of different skin color, and having a new coach who wants them to accomplish nothing less than…