Cherokee Essay
Vivian Du
Us History
5
10/13/14
We Shall Remain post-viewing questions
Episode 3: Trail of Tears
1. The U.S. government’s policy of “civilization” was developed at the ending of the American Revolution. It funded missionary organizations to go into Native American nations and teach the Natives how to be Anglo Americans. The Native Americans were being taught how to live the life, an Anglo American believed was a civilized way of living. This policy was introduced to the Cherokees by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson believed that the Americans can learn to live alongside the Natives. He said that the Natives will unite with us and mix blood by marriage. Their blood will run through the Americans and spread.
2. Major Ridges’s hope for the future was a group of educated new men, that could preserve the Cherokee Nation, understand the U. S. laws and outsmart negotiators that were after Cherokee land. His biggest hope for the future of the Cherokee was his son, John Ridge. John Ridge was a weak boy that lived with a disease that made it hard for him to walk. But Major Ridge was optimistic about the future with his son.
3. (a.) The pressures that John Ross saw threatening the Cherokee Nation was, the slowly diminishing alliance with the U. S. Washington was also overdue in payments owed to earlier treaties. The Cherokees’s are being forced to sell more of their territory.
(b.) John Ross’s reaction to these pressure was to push back. The Cherokee nation formed a much stronger government, determined not to give away anymore of their precious land. The Cherokee needed men that could speak English well, like John Ross, to understand and describe the Cherokee position to the U. S.
4. (a.) Sequoyah developed a system of writing in the Cherokee language. That was something that has never been done before and he was the first. He himself could not read or write, but he created a language that made the Cherokee people literate.
(b.) A written language revolutionize
Us History
5
10/13/14
We Shall Remain post-viewing questions
Episode 3: Trail of Tears
1. The U.S. government’s policy of “civilization” was developed at the ending of the American Revolution. It funded missionary organizations to go into Native American nations and teach the Natives how to be Anglo Americans. The Native Americans were being taught how to live the life, an Anglo American believed was a civilized way of living. This policy was introduced to the Cherokees by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson believed that the Americans can learn to live alongside the Natives. He said that the Natives will unite with us and mix blood by marriage. Their blood will run through the Americans and spread.
2. Major Ridges’s hope for the future was a group of educated new men, that could preserve the Cherokee Nation, understand the U. S. laws and outsmart negotiators that were after Cherokee land. His biggest hope for the future of the Cherokee was his son, John Ridge. John Ridge was a weak boy that lived with a disease that made it hard for him to walk. But Major Ridge was optimistic about the future with his son.
3. (a.) The pressures that John Ross saw threatening the Cherokee Nation was, the slowly diminishing alliance with the U. S. Washington was also overdue in payments owed to earlier treaties. The Cherokees’s are being forced to sell more of their territory.
(b.) John Ross’s reaction to these pressure was to push back. The Cherokee nation formed a much stronger government, determined not to give away anymore of their precious land. The Cherokee needed men that could speak English well, like John Ross, to understand and describe the Cherokee position to the U. S.
4. (a.) Sequoyah developed a system of writing in the Cherokee language. That was something that has never been done before and he was the first. He himself could not read or write, but he created a language that made the Cherokee people literate.
(b.) A written language revolutionize