Native Americans still existed. By examining the events: the Cherokee Nation in court‚ the Trail of Tears‚ and the Seminole Wars; it can be concluded that there is a false sense of constitutional government‚ equality‚ and opportunity for Native Americans. Americans’ treatment of the Cherokee tribe in the 1820’s and 30’s shows that a constitutional government is meaningless when it does not enforce its decisions and laws. The Cherokee Nation in the 1820’s had lost many of its land to angry
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Trail of Tears Among America’s rich history the United States has achieved many wondrous fetes‚ from declaring independence from Great Britain to abolishing slavery. Although the U.S. government has had such praise worthy accomplishments‚ there is one instance in United States history which brings shame to many Americas to this very day. This instance was the tragic removal of thousands of Native American men‚ women‚ and children from their homeland‚ notoriously known as The Trail of
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Bad Choices This was the scare of my life . I was cruising dirt roads in my jeep with a couple of friends‚ and we weren’t making very good choices that day . we were all drinking beer even though we were only 16‚ and I decided to try and show off for my friends and drift around a corner . Well needless to say that did not turn out very well at all. We made it around the corner and then i saw a truck coming our direction. So i tried to straighten it out before I should have and we slid out of
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com/2012/03/was-andrew-jackson-right-to-ignore.html) “The Cherokee nation‚ then‚ is a distinct community‚ occupying its own territory‚ with boundaries accurately described‚ in which the laws of Georgia can have no force‚ and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter.”(Chief Justice John Marshall) This evidence show’s Chief Justice John Marshall’s decision on Worcester v Georgia‚ and why President Jackson’s
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to take the Cherokee’s land‚ the Cherokee took the US government to court instead of fighting like many thought they would do. The Cherokee and their court case made it all the way to the supreme court. The Cherokee were fighting for their land and their argument was that the land belonged to them and they were entitled to it. Their case said that the US cannot take their land. The supreme court ruled in favor of the Cherokee. The judges ruled that the Cherokee were lawfully able to live on their
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deaths for the Cherokees alone‚ which were the largest of the Indian tribes and‚ thus‚ one of the most affected by the Trail of Tears (Perdue and Green 139). The Trail of Tears‚ therefore‚ was just as much of a political and emotional plight for the Cherokee and other Indian tribes as it was a physical one‚ especially in terms of the sheer body count‚ in addition to being forced from their homes. However‚ while the decision to relocate the Indians was a difficult and unfortunate one‚ it was not‚ necessarily
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One-pager assignment: Origin stories of “maize” After reading the Cherokee origin story of how corn or “maize” came to be‚ you will see that you see a much more interesting perspective on its creation rather than the claims that archeologists have came up with to determine maize’s origin. According to archaeologists‚ maize was developed and cultivated in what would be present day Mexico around 6000 BC. Scientists do not know exactly how maize was first developed‚ but they know that maize gradually
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of a certain minority being sent to Maine against their will while the public was cheering it on. It is incredibly immoral to do such a thing; yet in the early 1800’s this is basically what happened to the Cherokee Nation of Indians. Starting in 1814‚ Andrew Jackson wanted to move the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland of North Carolina‚ Tennessee‚ Georgia‚ and Alabama‚ to the present day state of Oklahoma. The Indian Nations traveled through the Trail of Tears to get to their forced
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Both helped the settlers. 2. Compare and contrast two different Native American Tribes. | Tribe #1: Wampanoag | Tribe #2: Cherokee | Government | The Wampanoag were organized as a confederacy with lesser sachems and sagamores under the authority of a Grand Sachem. | During the early 1800s‚ the Cherokee adopted their government to a written constitution. They established their own courts and schools‚ and achieved a standard of living that was the envy of their
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The Americans’ contribution to the European theater of war were: 1. Helping Great Britain survive via the Lend-Lease act 2. Helping the Soviets with the Lend-Lease act and providing them with jeeps‚ trucks‚ food‚ aircraft‚ and locomotives‚ which allowed the Soviets to focus on tank production and defeat the Germans 3. Invading Italy and Germany in partnership with the British through Operation Torch (North African landings) and Operation Overlord (Normandy landings)‚ which eventually led to the
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