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The Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles, referred to as the "Five Civilized Tribes", occupied land in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. They ultimately stood in the way of the expansion into the neighboring states. “And be it further enacted, That if, upon any of the lands now occupied by the Indians, and to be exchanged for, there should…

the greatest gods who went by the name Red Man. Within the Cherokee tribe they were connected to the world by spiritual beings, such as elemental gods of the Sun, Fire, and Water. “The Cherokee, or ‘The real people’ lived in what is today present Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina” (Raley). In Cherokee Mythology they believed in one Supreme Being who taught them to treat the world with great respect; to this day, traditions of the Cherokee ancestors are still followed by many. Within…

Braid College is stressful. I’m in my sophomore year. I actually didn’t want to go to college before I started. And, I still don’t like going. To me, most of my classes are boring and uninteresting. I get so bored learning about religion and what makes a cell a cell in Biology 120. I can still hear the clock ticking on the blue wall as the hours go by slowly. And the Professor’s monotone voice as I stare blankly at my computer screen. These classes aren’t going to help me with a degree in…

The internal and external conflicts are very conspicuous in Richard Wright's story Black Boy. When the boy's father left, his internal problem of hunger became closely associated with his father. After the boy started doing household chores such as cleaning and shopping, that gave way to another internal problem, responsibility. The boy was not yet ready for such a responsibility; he had to grow up fast in too short a period. On the boy's first trip to the supermarket, he came across an angry…

The Trail of Tears was a forced journey that took place for about 125,000 Native Americans from 1831-1838. These Native Americans were from different states in the Southern United States such as: Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, and North Carolina. The Trail of Tears is what took place after the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The government forced these 125,000 Native American’s out of their homes near the Appalachian Mountains, to relocate in Oklahoma. The trail from the Appalachian Mountains…

about, but it is relevant and transfers knowledge and wisdom so that the less exciting parts of history aren’t repeated. The Trail of Tears is one of many tragic times in history. In the 1830s, the southeastern portion of the united states, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida, was populated with over 100,000 Native Americans, but by the end of the decade, very few were left. They were moved because the federal government forced them to leave so that the white settlers could…

in office and on the frontlines he gained honor and respect from the people he lead. Before becoming president, Jackson was a young and successful lawyer as well as an upcoming politician. In 1796 he joined a convention charged with drafting new Tennessee state constitution and he became the first man elected to the U.S House of Representatives. He turned down reelection in 1797 and was almost instantly elected to the U.S Senate but resigned a year later and elected judge of Tennessee’s…

territories where broken down into Three regions the Lower, Middle, and Overhill Towns, Cherokees also known as cave people came from near the Blue Ridge mountains a part of the Appalachian Mountains. Many of the early Cherokee peoples lived along the Tennessee River, They settled in in agricultural societies. As of 2015 almost half if not more of the Cherokee Indians live in and reside in Oklahoma, the other half are scattered throughout North Carolina, Florida, California, Arkansas and Texas.…

The Cherokee tribe is a tribe that originated in southwest Virginia, western North Carolina and South Carolina, north Georgia, east Tennessee, and northeast Alabama, and claiming even to the Ohio River. The cherokee is a very large tribe that stretched over a vast area. The Cherokee tribe had many sub tribes. The sub tribes often spoke different languages. The Cherokee language originated from the Iroquoian language. Cherokee is a polysynthetic language. A polysynthetic language means that one…

The terrorist cult or “The Invisible Empire” also known as the Ku Klux Klan or for short the KKK is the representation of chaos in the late 1800’s due to the Reconstruction-era. The Ku Klux Klan was founded by a confederate general in 1866, the KKK movement was nursed from prejudice and hate (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, “A Ku Klux Klan threat”, July 25,2012).The signature identity of the Klan are ghostly white sheets, the members of the clan represent the ghost of the…