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suffering given to them by the United States government for a westward expansion. One horrible suffering of the Cherokee tribe was it took several years to rebuild the Cherokee nation. (Video) While in the Cherokee Territory, they were informed by Thomas Jefferson that if they could become more like the common white man, the Native Americans could fit in and possibly live among white people. (Video) Cherokee people tried their…

Andrew Jackson overstepped his authority and abused the power of the executive branch. Jackson used his executive power to enforce the federal power of the laws that he chose to enforce while others he gave the states more power over enforcement. He also owned more than 300 slaves in his life time which he treated poorly and he acted like a friend to the Indians but then forced them out west. Jackson believed that extending the charter of the Second Bank of the United States was a form of…

Killing Lincoln; The Shocking Assassination that Changed American Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard discusses on the collaboration and assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. In the first part of the book, many battles and plans of the Union and the Confederacy are examined. The war lasted for 4 years. The president for the union was Abraham Lincoln and the confederate president was Jefferson Davis. The generals that were in charge were Ulysses S. Grant and Robert e. Lee. The war…

Natives were removed and views western expansion as an all around positive event. The truth behind it is many Natives were killed or forcefully removed from their native lands due to Americans. Zinn mentions American presidents such as Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson to bring light into their involvement and mistreatment of the Native population. During Jackson’s presidency many saw him as a hero and thanked him for their economic and political growth. However, Zinn states that it was a…

President Thomas Jefferson as well as George Washington before him (Dwyer p32) held the belief that the Indians through assimilation were equal to the white man in mind and body but that their environment had slowed advancement of them as a people. Jefferson felt…

This Wednesday, Roxanne-Dunbar Ortiz and Dina Gillio Whitaker presented their new book at the Elliot Bay Company. Their book addresses myths associated with American colonization and the Indigenous peoples. Ms. Gillio Whitaker helped with specifics of the native history side of the book; both collaborating to address the issues they felt were important. Before the brief introduction and excerpt reading, they explained their disappointment in the election results and how it resulted in a therapy…

Andrew Carnegie was a “robber baron”, in his personal relationships and the way he treated his workers, who did beneficial things under the guise of being a “captain of industry” to try to overshadow the awful things he did. He was conflicted his entire life between the two great influences of his childhood. His father and grandmother represented the true ideals of democracy, of the rights of the people while his mother was materialistic and determined to reach the top economically through…

The term “Jacksonian Democracy” describes the period in United States history, from the late 1820s to the beginning of the civil war, during which Andrew Jackson ascended to the presidency and founded the Democratic Party. Coming on the heels of the Jeffersonian era, in which Thomas Jefferson espoused beliefs that property ownership should be a requirement for suffrage and only the educated elite should hold office, Jackson extended voting rights to all white men, not simply landowners. He…

Varied reasons promoted America’s Westward Expansion in the 19th century. In the beginning of the century, the main expansion catalysts were the nation’s new acquisition of land and opportunities. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the United States and providing a large area west for expansion. During the 1820s, westward migration became popular among American citizens, however, they experienced difficulty pervading national…

The caucus nominating system, or King Caucus, was beginning to show cracks, demonstrated by the election of 1824 and disagreements about its constitutionality. It would be replaced by the mass party system crafted by Martin Van Buren. The mass party system was upheld as supporting local, constitutional government, replacing a system that favored the wealthy and centralized powers. Van Buren argued that the mass party system would remove sectional conflict and replace it with loyalty to party…