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    Weekly Essay No. 3 Andrew Jackson’s presidency may have been deemed successful by some and by others a catastrophe. Seen as a power and influential president, Jackson achieved many accomplishments during his presidency, such as being a founder of the Democratic Party, breaking down the Second Bank, and paying off the national debt. However, all of these accomplishments were overshadowed by the animosity Jackson had towards the Native Americans and the way he treated them, ultimately tainting…

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    As I grew up in Florida we learned a good deal about Native Americans and different tribes of Indians, so I always had an awareness of Native Americans. I distinctly remember creating different arts and crafts highlighting pilgrims, turkeys, and Native Americans every November in elementary school. The Native Americans were celebrated as heroes that enabled the pilgrims to learn how to grow crops and keep from starving. When I was younger I watched Pocahontas and I may have read some nonfiction…

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    Chief Standing Bear

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    Background Information and Thesis When America was still in its early years, Indians had a socioeconomic status less than that of a black person -- that is unless they became assimilated tax payers. The U.S. government toyed with them like puppets for years as America expanded west, forcibly securing them in federally controlled reservations under the guise of protecting them. By the mid 1800’s, all Native American tribes resided west of the Mississippi River on reservations due to the Indian…

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    would maybe cause them to progressively abandon their savage behaviors.2 It soon became obvious that Jackson simply wished to rid the land the whites claimed as their own from Natives. The Native Americans referred to this predicament as the ‘Trail of Tears’, which caused the death of…

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    Indian Removal Act In 1828 Andrew Jackson had own presidency and had succeed by changing things with the government. One of many was him having a special relationship with the common people. He removed about 10 percent of workers and replaced with loyal friends and followers. In the 1800’s Native Americans had been living next to white neighbors, taking on their culture. The white settlers had wanted the Native Americans land for farming. Jackson had decided to remove all Native Americans from…

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    Essay On Indian Conflict

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    Indian conflict played a significant role in the founding of the United States, starting almost immediately after Christopher Columbus’s landing in the Americas. When the Spanish settlers arrived in the “new land”, they brought crops, livestock, and advancements in weaponry from their homes; this increased violence between tribes and brought new diseases/invasive species to the Native’s land. Along with bringing physical representation of Europe, the Spanish brought religion, offering…

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    Jackson Pros And Cons

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    What We Don't Know About The Man On The Twenty Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew has announced that abolitionist Harriet Tubman will replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. And, while Jackson will still reportedly remain on the reverse side of the bill, the move is nonetheless a momentous one. Naturally there are many people who will complain about this decision, but since Tubman’s legacy leading slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad is beyond reproach, these critics will…

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    The Cherokee Removal

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    as well as key political figures’ position on sovereign governance. This complex period is successfully outlined by Perdue and Green, with a chronological account of the Indians’ first encounter with Europeans through the inevitable journey, “Trail of Tears”. The geographical region disputed in the authors’ text, includes North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama. This land was home to Native Americans hundreds and thousands of years before the Europeans arrived.…

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    During the nineteenth century the United States believed that they had to fulfill a call from god which demanded them to spread west socially, politically and economically. This was later known as the Manifest Destiny which brought the United States a huge amount of territorial growth for the nation. However, many people did not approve of the Manifest Destiny. Like many other people the Native Americans believed it was just a way for the United States to spread slavery and some democrats like…

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    On May 28, 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. The law authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate with Indians for their removal to federal land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. Andrew Jackson was able to convince the American people that Indians could not coexist peacefully with them. He argued that the Indians were uncivilized and needed to be guarded from their own savage ways. As a result of his actions, thousands of Indians were forcibly ripped from their…

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