Monday, March 21, 2011
Blog Assignment 6- Native American Treatment and Removal in the 1800s
Over the past unit we have studied and discussed how the United States moved from being a country of 13 states along the Atlantic Coast to a vast area reaching all the way to the Pacific Ocean. We looked at the explorers that traveled the new vast land and finally today we talked about the settlers and pioneers that risked everything to move West. Unfortunately the expansion and settlement was was not positive for everyone. The Native Americans were often moved from their land onto reservations in areas like Oklahoma. Those who resisted were forced by the military and many many died from disease. Read pages 368-369 in your book. It gives an example of this when in 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act to make the Cherokee Tribe leave Florida. For this blog assignment you need to write at least six sentences summing up what happened to the Cherokee on the pages you read, write how it makes you feel, and then tell me how things could have been done differently.
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Back then life had many hardships! People had to decide if they were going to be a loyalist which is someone who is loyal to the king, or a patriot someone who is against the British King. There is also a neutral someone who doesn't pick a side. Many of times towns were robbed. Times when the British soldiers were marching through villages, villagers would destroy their own belongings so that there was nothing for the British soldiers to take and use or eat. Back then countries should have gotten along. England should have respected that Americans had claimed that land, and that they couldn't control them.
ReplyDeleteMadeline DeJong
Back then, there was a tribe named the Cherokee that lived in the southeastern United States. In 1830, President Jackson signed a law that was called the Indian Removal Act. This act meant that the Cherokee tribe and other tribes were forced to leave their land and go west to an area called the Indian Territory. The United States Supreme Court wanted the Cherokees to stay in their homeland, but President Jackson would not let that happen. I feel that it was not fair to the Cherokee indians to have to leave their homeland. Things could have been different if President Jackson let the Cherokees take back their land.
ReplyDeleteHannah Griffin
Back then life was harder. As more and more settlers came in the U.S the more indians were drawn out. President Jackson signed a law called the "Indian Act Removal". That pushed out all the rest of the indians called the Cherooke. I felt we could have gave the indians more land. We could also have givin the indians territory instead of forcing them out. I, as many people feel sorry for the indians.
ReplyDeleteChristopher Begala
Cherokes walked 800 miles to get this "new land." The walk happened during bad weather. One out of 4 died in this journey. Battles have been on throughout hirstory ,but this is'nt a big deal. The strongest country wins. I do not feel sorry for the because we wanted the land and we won because they are weak. Their land was side by side by the settlers.
ReplyDeleteBobby Zakhireh
In 1830 president Jackson signed a law called the Indian Act Removel forcing most of all the indians out of florida then jackson was out of ofice and Buren in. The indians hoped that he would let them back in...BUT NO!!! He agreed with jackson. I feel really bad for the indians but they deserved to be out because we were settiling there and no ofince but...I am shure people would not like living with indians that go owowow and waking them up in the middle of the night because they killed a duck. I would give them more space and move them to Canada GOOD LUCK.
ReplyDeleteJOSHUA KELM
The Cherokes walked miles and miles in bad weather.Many towns were robbed and only one person died.I fell sorry for them but I wouldn't giv any land to them. I also think the president should have treated them better.
ReplyDeleteXavier Valero
The United States congress passed a bill called the Indian Removal Act. The Cherokes walked all the way to Oklahoma in really bad weather. By winter 4,000 people of the Cherokes died. I don't think this is fair for the Indians because they where already there. The president should've treated them with more respect.
ReplyDeleteIn 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which sent the Indian tribes out of Florida. It was the Indian's land and the government ran them out because they had a stronger army. I think that this wasn't fair because we just shoved them out of their land and didn't even ask them, we just intruded. I think we could have done things differently by making a deal. We could have offered to buy the land because it wasn't ours to begin with. I think that Andrew Jackson did not make a good decision as a President to sign that Act.
ReplyDeleteAlex Worley