Tennessee v. Garner

“In the beginning of the 1830’s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia. This land was passed down generations to generations.” (History) The idea of the Indians owning so much land, angered white settlers very much. President Andrew Jackson, had to do something about this issue. To the white settlers, Indians were uncivilized, unfamiliar, and alien people. They hated the fact of the Indians occupying so…

states, including Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. This vast piece of land was to commemorate the death of approximately 4000 Native American lives. In the early 1830’s, it had only been a few decades since America had been founded.The white settlers who were new to the land began to explore it with intent to claim it as their own territory. Tens of thousands of Native Americans lived on millions of acres of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida land that…

ANDREW JACKSON THE VILLIAN The seventh president of the United States of America, Andrew Jackson, was a corrupt politician who only did what he believed was correct and what was beneficial for him. Becoming president in 1828 after losing the previous election to John Quincy Adams due to a deal stuck with Henry Clay, he immediately removed multiple government officials and replaced them with his supporters. Then later in his presidency he tried to remove the Native Americans from their land.…

Samuel Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27th, 1722. Samuel’s dad was a successful brewer and served as a deacon for the Old and New South churches in boston. Samuel’s dad also was a Boston selectman and representative to the assembly. Samuel’s mom was also deeply religious from the teachings of Jonathan Edwards. Samuel’s childhood insisted of him surviving and 2 other children surviving out of 12 children all together. Adams and his 2 other brothers and sisters were…

John Ross was the chief and led the Cherokee Nations through all of their tough times. The general council was also responsible for making any agreements and negotiations with the United State’s government. The delegation, a total of twenty people, with officials such as Ross, McCoy Gunter, and William Rogers would go to meetings and make decisions with the United States. Although the leaders of the nation respected each other, they had different opinions among the Treaty of New Echota. Some…

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. He was elected in 1797 as Tennessee's first US Representative and then as the senator of the United States in 1797 from which he resigned after eight…

other children of his age. However, all this changed when he turned thirteen years old. Houston's father died and his family had to move to another state. “He emigrated with his mother, five brothers, and three sisters to Blount County in Eastern Tennessee, where the family established a farm near Maryville on a tributary of Baker's Creek.” (www.tshaonline.org). Nonetheless, this will only be the beginning of the greatest changes that Houston is going to experience throughout…

The Cherokees are a Native American Tribe from the Southeastern United States, they lived in The Great Smoky Mountains which stretched through North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. In the first paragraph, I will talk about the Cherokee villages. In Cherokee villages, there was an wall to keep intruders out of their territory. There were over 100 villages in the Cherokee nation, they were all connected by the great cherokee path. Cherokee villages had several large cornfields…

The year was 1838; approximately 16,000 Cherokees were forced off of their tribal lands by the United States Government, on a march later known to the Indians as the Trail of 4,000 Tears known to us as the Trail of Tears. They were forced to leave their homes and everything they held dear to their hearts. This treatment was unfair to the Natives after everything they helped us with. The removal of Native Americans from their lands by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 violated their political, legal…

One of the many things that the white settlers did while settling in America was remove the Indians from their lands. The settlers removed the Indians time after time killing many Indians and never taking into consideration how the Indians felt. In the “Southern Workmand and Hampton School Record and Edna Dean Proctor the “Indians Appeal” (January 1892)” some of the Indians feelings are revealed. The Indians feel the wanting and need of joining the White settlers. They want to feel trusted and…