Cherokee Removal College Essays Samples For Students

One of the greatest and most tragic failures in American history was the Trail of Tears. The forced relocation of Native Americans from their tribal lands in the southeastern United States (mainly Georgia) to reservations in present-day Oklahoma serves as both a blemish on American history, and a reminder of the legacy of racism that condoned the mistreatment of Native Americans by the earliest white settlers of the young Republic.
In 1838, thousands of Native Americans of the Cherokee tribe were forced from their homeland in Georgia by about 7,000 US troops, who were ordered to speed up the ...

Reflection Paper

After the Mayflower
After the Mayflower is the first episode of We Shall Remain (2009) a documentary series that depict history of Native Americans. In this first episode one is introduced to the beginning of integration of Pilgrims into the new land. After the Mayflower depicts relationships within the Native American tribes and further presents the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, Massasoit, who makes, as he thinks, beneficial deal with Pilgrims from the Mayflower. Their alliance is deemed to protect and support both sides from different adversities that plagued them like ailments or threatening Narragansett tribe. As the time ...

Essay Outline

Introduction

Discovery of gold and expansion to the West
Thesis Statement: White supremacy hindered a peaceful coexistence between the Cherokees and the Caucasians; hence, despite the former’s connection to their land and existing treaties, the removal was inevitable.

Reasons for staying

Ancestral land
A civilized people that cannot wander like savages
The move involved large numbers of Indians
Legal arguments
Individual and national rights
Treaty of Hopewell put the Cherokees under the protection of the United States
Treaty of Holston documented Cherokees agreeing to be under the rule of the Americans
Summarization of the Appeal of the Cherokee Nation
Conclusion
Restatement ...

The three events that stood out for me in the video, The Trail of Tears are:

Event 1: The Passing and Signing into law of the Indian Removal Act in 1830
Following the growing appetite for Cherokee land by Anglo-American’s and the discovery of gold in their land, there was a growing movement that wanted Native Americans, moved from their lands. This movement was supported by no other than President Andrew Jackson, and it culminated in the legislation of the Indian Removal Act by the United States congress. During the passing of the act, there was only one dissenting voice, and immediately after the passing of the legislation President Jackson signed it into law. ...

Presentation Notes

Many have said that America was built on the backs of immigration and minorities that settled in America. There is a lot of evidence to support this, as the Irish and German immigrants that came in waves during the 1880s were often used for cheap labor. In addition, African-Americans were used as slave labor until the conclusion of the Civil War, playing an important part in the development of the country. In addition, Native Americans were also prominently involved in the process, but certainly not in a positive way; this is because the United States government used resettlement techniques ...

1.To what degree did abolitionists accomplish their goals?
The abolitionists goals were to end slavery and to put an end to racial discrimination and segregation. They wanted to do this by making the issue a moral and ethical one rather than a political one. The abolitionists were able to achieve their goal of freeing the slaves due to the Civil War. the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments gave slaves their freedom, the right to vote (men) and citizenship. However, they were not able to put an end to segregation which continued on until the 1960’s, nor were they ...

I am a Man

The title of the book written by Joe Starita, entitled I am a man, was inspired by the own words uttered by the main character of the book who is recognized as a hero without any superpowers. “I am a Man” is the great story of the Ponca Indian tribe Chief Standing Bear who longs for home and justice for his people that took place in 1877. The book narrated a brilliant history of the west that is somehow similar to the tragic event known as the “Trail of Tears” when the Cherokee nation were ...

Exodus. It is a word that refers to a mass departure of people from one place to another. But for most people, it also means one other thing: liberation. This is because in the Bible’s book of Exodus, the Israelites were liberated by Moses from their slavery in Egypt. For more than 200 years, they were treated as if they were mere objects instead of human beings. But during their exodus, they were able to gain back not just their freedom and rights, but their identity as well. The Exodus perfectly demonstrates how the realities of the physical and material ...

When I was a child, my relationship to animals was very close. The neighborhood children and I often included family pets in our games as if they were one of us. Dogs enjoy many of the same games that children spend their days playing. They enjoy frisbee, hide-and-seek, tag, and imaginary adventures of exploration. In a few cases they patiently submitted to being dressed up in baby clothes and became part of the family when we played house. Even though we were the “owners” of these dogs, we never thought of ourselves that way. To us, they were equal members of ...

American History from the Columbus's voyages through the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)

• 1492
• 1600s-1700s
• 1600s-1700s
• 1754-1763
• 1176-1778
• 1803-
• 1800s
• 1800s
• 1820s
• 1846-1848

I. Descriptive Analysis

The explorer Christopher Columbus was looking for a western route to Asia when he came across the Caribbean islands in 1492 (U.S. Department of State, 2005). He never entered mainland America, but, he took the reports of a new land to the Spanish government, which sent more explorers.

In 1497, a Vietnamese man John Cabot visited mainland America around Newfoundland. This was five years after Christopher Columbus had arrived at the Caribbean. In years to come, this visit by Cabot became one of the major factors in the fight over America, since ...