Trail of Tears

In early 1803, Jefferson sent a secret message to congress asking for approximately two thousand five hundred dollars. The money was meant for the Lewis and Clark expedition, to explore what is now the western part of the United States. The reason for making the message secret was to hide what he was really trying to do from his enemies in the Federalist Party. It seems as though Jefferson had no bad intentions behind making the message secret, he was doing it to help the future of America.…

The Cherokee Indians had lived in northwest Georgia, but in the 1800s many whites begin to settle there. Georgia believed the state had the right to this land because it was within the borders of Georgia, but the Cherokee Indians had lived there for centuries and felt they had a right to the land. Many Cherokees adapted a more American lifestyle and some became plantation owners or store owners. The Cherokee Nation also created a constitution that was similar to the Constitution of the United…

The removal was very unjustified because we were unfair and made a lot of people die, we did.This is why the Indian removal act was unjustified and how America can be towards others. Imagine how it would feel to lose your home and have to walk about 1,000 miles to get to your new home.“The Cherokees lost approximately one-fourth of their people to disease, malnourishment, and hardship.”This is only one hardship they faced.√The removal was unjustified because the native Americans owned the land…

Throughout history, the United States of America has been involved in numerous conflicts. These conflicts have involved cultures all over the world and as a result we often see prejudice in our own country. This prejudice is often directed towards the citizens that have cultural ties to the perceived enemy. Having such a diverse culture within the U.S. is considered to be a good thing, but during times of war it can trigger harsh and negative treatment towards individuals that are looked at as…

The Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868 stated that the Great Sioux Nation Reservation that included the Black Hills in western South Dakota be exempt from any and all white settlement until the end of time. With this the tribe was given protected hunting rights under the treaty. Until European Americans discovered gold in the black hills around 1874 and from that moment the Sioux reservation and its peoples would, again, have their lives disturbed by the government and its “promises”. The famous…

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…

Indian Removal Was or Wasn’t unjustified Written by: Jerah Green The first people in America were the Indians, they know and cherished that land. We took their land when we first came and then congress wanted to take more and more, but is it justified that they should push them out again. That is what the United States congress was debating. The U.S. had promised that land to the Indians, then they try to break that promise. That doesn’t make them as Americans look very good or trustworthy.…

Tears started to fall down my face. The man in the uniform was constantly glaring at me through the review mirror and it made me feel weak. Once we got to Roberto's school he came out looking just as I did, sad. I had noticed that we were heading to the boarder already. "My family is back there, you can not take us away!" The driver just yelled back at me to be quiet. Roberto held me back shaking his head no. I broke out into tears as we got closer to the boarder. The new boarder was no longer…

government and now the nation was so small that they simply couldn’t afford to lose any more land. So the Cherokee council made this sale of land a crime punishable by death. He was eventually killed after a long struggle but the Cherokee nation shed no tears for him. After this event, the Cherokees were divided into two groups, one who accepted the white way of life and the other who, seeing what greed could do to a person, shuns it. The Treaty of New Echota in 1835 is one of the most…

stench grew the closer to the village I got. The stench was made up of a rotten smell mixed with ashes. The trees parted way when I got to my village I could see everything, the burning houses the piles of dead corpses. I ran to see if anyone survived, tears ran down my face. My legs ached in pain from running; I fell to the ground and screamed. I have failed this village, the one thought racing through my mind, I shouldn’t have given them…