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If there was one lesson I could teach it would be the gruesome treatment of Native Americans under Andrew Jackson’s presidency. Prior to Jackson’s presidency Native Americans had been treated poorly. Since the arrival of the first Europeans the natives had experienced abuse and enslavement. Some were brutally slaughtered in wars over territory or had been exposed to diseases. Others were forced to assimilate to European ideals. For example, in 1819 Congress had tried to “civilize” the natives by…

In 1928, Andrew Jackson was ironically granted the honor of becoming immortalized on the twenty dollar bill. He has become an important part of America’s history. Most of the younger generations automatically assume Andrew Jackson was a decent, honorable man. However, growing up around violence and death, Andrew Jackson grew to be unpredictable. “Here was an apparently unbalanced, excitable, insecure, and defensive boy coming of age in a culture of confrontation and violence. It was not, to say…

where they wintered again. Upon the arrival of spring, they began marching, this time taking a more northwest route. In May 1541, de Soto spotted an enormous river, the great Mississippi, slightly south of the area that is now known as Memphis, Tennessee (First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States 1492-1570, 88). Upon seeing this, he ordered his men to stop. They built rafts and barges and crossed the river, marching east for the next ten months through the…

Red River War The Civil War resulted in an evacuation of military in the western frontier. Abraham Lincoln wanted to establish the Union’s presence in Texas in order to warn France to keep away from their territory. His plan was to use the Red River as a naval base in hopes of blockading the French troops. The Red River Campaign ultimately failed, but gave benefit to the future of the country. American commercial hunters saw the plains as a way to regain land they thought was taken away from…

[Name of the Writer] [Name of the Instructor] [Subject] [Date] Malcolm/Martin Debate Position Paper The starting point was when both the influential speakers realized that Black Americans were not given equal rights and opportunities and they teamed up for their rights. The two influential and strong political leaders with huge followership argued about their religious as well as social viewpoints. Malcolm X claimed to be a Muslim leader according to his religious views, but he was not in the…

During 1876 I feel that Native Americans were considered “less equal” perhaps not in an overall sense but considering that the thirteenth through fifteenth amendments were nearing it seems as though legislation that was aimed at helping Native Americans would have to wait until the 20th century. Just a year after the one hundredth anniversary of the Dawes Severalty Act was instituted offering allotment to Native Americans, this act would take tribes who in many cases had already been relocated…

In the 1800’s when America was still developing as a new country, there were still many conflicts proceeding throughout that period. Andrew Jackson served as the seventh president and his main concern was the removal of the Cherokee tribe from their own land. As a result, the Cherokee people were divided amongst themselves because of this act President Jackson wanted to enforce. While many Cherokee people ignored Jackson’s instructions and stay in their land, few did go to what is now Oklahoma.…

Chief Joseph Chief Joseph(hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt) was born march 3,1840 in Wallowa valley,Oregon. Chief Joseph was a Nez Perce Indian chief who faced with settlement by whites of tribal lands in Oregon and led his followers in a dramatic effort to escape to Canada . Chief Joseph,known by his people as (hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt) (thunder coming up over the land from the water), was best known for his tribe into reservations.The nez perce were a peaceful…

The Indian removal movement of 1830 started because Americans were moving west and acquiring land to settle, but the Indians became the obstacle. Another factor that made the Americans to remove the Cherokees was, because of the gold that Georgians had found in Cherokee’s land. The government would make treaties, but the government would not fully follow the treaties. While the Americans moved west, they introduced diseases, but this was not enough to wipe out the tribes, war was the answer. It…

Jackson was later appointed prosecuting attorney, and then he was elected to represent Tennessee, where he lived, in the House of Representatives, and finally served in the Senate, but resigned after eight months. During the War of 1812, Jackson was made the major general of Tennessee’s militia. After his success in battle, the U.S. Military…