Tennessee v. Garner

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are not the group of Cherokee Indians you usually hear about in history books. Many people are familiar with Cherokee Indians, but far too many people think that ALL Cherokees walked the Trail of Tears and ended up in present day Oklahoma during the mid 1800’s. Some Cherokee people agreed to the new laws, and together, 1,000 Cherokees purchased 57,000 acres of land of western North Carolina territory. Around 16,000 Cherokees left Appalachia on the Trail of…

the 1840s? What role did Andrew Jackson play in the Trail of Tears? What does his response to the removal reveal about Jackson’s vision of democracy? Early 1830s, hundreds of Native Americans lived on acres of land in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. However, the Europeans that began to inhabit the western frontier were scared of the Native Americans that they came in contact with. They were scared of what they did not know and they wanted the land that the Native Americans…

1. What impression does Johnson give you of Andrew Jackson? The impression Johnson gives of Andrew Jackson is interesting. Johnson wrote that Jackson campaigned to be president to clean up the federal capital (pg.328). He was a democrat and created the Democratic Party, but he was robbed of his presidency. Clay gave the presidency to Adams over Jackson. Johnson also wrote that though he was a handsome man he looked sick and frail looking. Journals and pamphlets were written about him and his…

Andrew Jackson has always been known to have issues in speaking publically and to have an anger problem, but that never stopped him in climbing his way to the top, from becoming a law man, and holding other jobs in the justice system, to becoming president. Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication, by James C. Curtis is a book about Jackson’s psychological problems that influenced much of his actions and sent him on the path to presidency. This report will review aspects of the book and…

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…