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    If you had been forced away from your family, community, and culture (as Native children were until the mid-1980s) how might you have turned out differently? What would you have missed learning without your personal cultural influences? The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830 to permit the elimination of Indian tribes to federal territory west of the Mississippi River. According to our text (McNamara & Burns) the government then held the belief that…

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    step father’s apprentice. Consequently, Andrew and William would run away. After many tears Andrew and William returned to North Carolina, eventually moving the whole family to Greenville, Tennessee. Tennessee Democrats would notice Andrew Johnson as a pugnacious debater, and in 1848 sent Johnson around Tennessee to campaign for house of representative. He would win in 1843(www.senate.gov). While Representative Johnson would be involved in debates with Whig Abraham Lincoln…

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    I'm going to tell you about the MVP of the battle of new Orleans.Andrew Jackson face is on the 20 dollar bill. He was the president. Also he was the people's president which shows he was a hard worker and more like the common man. Also Andrew jackson fought in the war of 1812. He was the hero of a war he won when he was out numbered. We should keep Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill because he is the hero of the battle of New Orleans, He was the president, and he induced federal power.The…

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    “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…

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    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…

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    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.…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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