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Nashville, Tennessee has created some programs to make college less expensive. The article is showing how today's college students have to work 30-40 hours a week and still have student loan debt. The Tennessee Promise is a program that is used, this program can cover tuition after a student has applied for other federal or state grants that also pay for tuition. The main problem is that the program will not help college students graduate. To make sure that students graduate the Tennessee…

Gean 6 Jessica Gean Ms. Warren English Composition 112 March 2, 2017 The Treacherous Journey of the Trail of Tears Before the British came over to the Americas, the Cherokee Indians, among many other tribes, inhabited these rolling hills, mountains, and plains. Unfortunately, they were removed from their homeland very viciously. The removal of Cherokee Indians is referred to as the Trail of Tears. The journey of the Cherokee Indians from before their removal, their fight to not be removed,…

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…

like most of the other citizens of the United States wanted the Natives’ land. Even before he became president, he encouraged Indian removal, he “became the political prime mover of the Indian-removal process.” While he was the major general of the Tennessee militia, “He was able, personally to force cessions of land upon tribes, and to begin the process of removal of the Southern Indians to the west of the Mississippi.” Jackson’s attitude towards the Natives reflected Southern ideals because he…

When the earliest explorers came to America, wherever they settled they always influenced the culture of most native people. Cherokees like any other natives had their own culture and lived in an organized lifestyle. Early before the whites came, the Cherokees used to have a culture well organized that governed their aspect of life. Also, in spite of the white man’s influence, Cherokees had a form of education, language, economy, political systems and a lived in a particular geographical…

Racism still existed and angry whites had become violent against the blacks. These struggles started with the Ku Klux Klan of 1866, who were comprised of a disguised secret society of white supremacists in Tennessee. They terrorized blacks by mob killings in the form of lynching: “…They wanted to maintain a South in which the white man orchestrated the black man’s movements.” These Klansmen dressed in costumes featuring themselves as ghosts to scare the poor…

Andrew Jackson President Andrew Jackson barred the proposed bill re-chartering the Second Bank of United States in July 1832. He disputed that the bill, in the form with which it had been presented to him, was totally incompatible with sound policy and justice as well as the constitution. In the veto message, the President argued that the Bank’s license was completely unfair by virtue of the fact that it gave the bank extensive, almost monopolistic power in the market particularly in the…

The Trail of Tears was a tragic time period in the United States especially for the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole Tribes. The Trail of Tears was a migration route for the five tribes from their homeland in the Southeastern parts of the United States to what is now present day Oklahoma. “Trail of Tears” refers to several different land and water routes taken by the tribes. This situation was more like a forced removal, these tribes traveled nearly thousands of miles through…

I was born and raised in Germantown, Tennessee, in other words, I've known nothing but the south. I have never once set foot in the northern territories that stretch outwards in the United States, as my feet stay planted in the soil grounds of the southern borders. While growing up I didn't think much about how much impact the south has had on my lifestyle. However, I have picked up a lot of traits and ideas that have crept up on me during the twenty years of living in the surrounding areas 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…