Andrew Jackson Hero or Misfit America‚ the nation started on the idea of a nation free from oppression has a dark often shameful history. The Trail of Tears following the Indian removal act is a perfect representation with direct legislature to prove it. Now I have to say that former president Andrew Jackson was a person I greatly admired and often visited the hallowed statue in New Orleans that stands ever vigilant as a visual tribute the man who stood with few to fight the many and came out victorious
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Virginia‚ Kentucky‚ and Tennessee. Most Cherokees were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1800’s along the Trail of Tears. The Cherokee Indians who survived this death still live in Oklahoma today. Some Cherokees escaped the Trail of Tears by hiding in the Appalachian hills or taking shelter with white neighbors. These people live scattered throughout the original Cherokee Indian homelands. Trail of Tears was the Cherokee name for what the Americans called Indian Removal. During the 1800’s‚ the US government
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village people but that is far from what really happened. What happened in the Holocaust was genocide but would you consider what happened to the Native Americans was genocide? There are lots of opinions and feelings about what happened like the “Trail of Tears” in the “Indian Removal Acts” and the concentration camps where they were all moved from their land so the whites could build and the Indians would die of exposure. I don’t think it was a full genocide but most of the characteristics fit‚ so I
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There are obvious reasons why Andrew Jackson shouldn’t be on the twenty dollar bill. There was the Indian Removal Act‚ the Trail of Tears‚ and he closed the National Bank. But‚ who should replace him? One western leader‚ President Ronald Reagan‚ above all others‚ demanded the Soviets to give up the Brezhney Doctrine and abandon the arms race‚ brought down the Berlin Wall‚ and ended the Cold War at the bargaining table and not on battlefield (2013‚ Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism). The Brezhney
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they believed themselves to be. Both the Jacksonians and President Jackson went against the Supreme Courts regarding cases that were said to be constitutional. An instance in which the Jacksonian Democrats violated the Constitution was in the "Trail of Tears". The Supreme Court stated that the Jacksonian Democrats’ actions were unconstitutional because they had issued the "Indian Removal Act". By doing this‚ they were in violation of the treaty of New Echota. In the 1832 decision Worcester v. Georgia
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With the main goal to find gold‚ the Europeans decided that they wanted to stay in this “New World”. After the atrocity that left thousands dead‚ the survivors were faced with the fight for the right of their land. With colonization came slavery‚ because without it European colonization would have stayed limited in North America. Slaves were defined by the Europeans as non-Christian and non-European people. In 1705‚ the Virginia General Assembly stated‚ "All servants imported and brought into the
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signing removal treaties and dealt only with those who favored removal. Though the Trail of Tears took place during Van Buren’s presidency‚ through Jackson’s numerous removal acts such as the treaty of New Echota he set up the framework for the Trail of Tears. Van Buren’s administration only had to enforce the Treaty of New Echota‚ which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 4‚000 Cherokees on the Trail of Tears. Jackson had carried out his plans to relocate the Indians west of the Mississippi
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Blood poured out of the wound in my side‚ and I gripped it as tears sprung to my eyes. I could feel every little nerve in my body slowly becoming numb as my body began to shut down. My heart began to beat slower‚ and my eyes grew heavy. I could barely feel my legs‚ but I continued to crawl away from the battlefield. The tears in my eyes began to spill‚ and I whimpered out loud‚ choking on the air that I breathed. I collapsed in to a pile of leaves near the base of a large oak tree‚ desperate for
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them. Humans tend to have hatred towards others because of their selfishness. They think they are better than others and can control them. The trail of tears‚ African Slavery‚ and the Holocaust all show human cruelty weather it is to the Indians‚ slaves‚ or Jewish people by forcing them to do and go wherever the powerful forces made them. In the trail of tears‚ innocent Cherokee Indians were forced off their land. Between 1790 and 1830 the population of Georgia increased greatly. The western push of
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signed a treaty to remove native tribes east of the Mississippi river and provide land west of the river. In difference‚ I believe this act wasn’t justified for several reasons; such as laws being disobeyed‚ natives being disrespected‚ and the Trail Of Tears The Indian removal act wasn’t justified because laws were disobeyed throughout the supreme court; for instance‚ Andrew Jackson negotiated with Native Americans to
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