The Trail Of Tears

The trail of tears was a dark period in US history. Fueled by greed and racism but rationalized through what we believed was best for our country, we took even more from people who had already lost so much. We deemed natives as incompatible with society because they did not share our beliefs and culture. Now in modern times, we face issues that are parallel to this era and there are many things that can and should be learned from our mistakes and generalizations from the past.

The Cherokee are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Although they were not considered states at this time, they would have been in present day Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. However, in 1938 the Cherokees found an abundant amount of gold which left the United States in a scramble. Thus, President Johnson signed the removal act, which forced the Cherokees East of the Mississippi into the Great Plains and then went into dig up gold. The Cherokees thrived in the Great Plains, becoming farmers and excellent hunters. They settled along the Arkansas River, becoming fisherman. Just as it happened in 1938 the Cherokees were eventually forced off their lands and into the Oregon Territory. This trail they walked along was called the trail of tears, many Cherokees died because of food deprivation or various diseases. Today, this Trail of Tears is seen as the worst displays of discrimination in the history of the United States. Thus, we gave the Cherokees Reservations to live on in the Western United States. This journey they faced is arguably the hardest journey any tribe has ever faced and the way the Cherokees overcame this and turned their tribe into what it is today is what makes it special.

Spartacus: (c. 109–71 BC) One of the slave leaders who led a major revolt against the Roman empire, in the Third Servile War. Spartacus has become symbolic of

After this victory, Spartacus and his forces continued to surprise and defeat multiple praetors and their legions, but eventually another leader by the name of Crixus would join Spartacus in leading the gladiators and slaves and convince the army to continue plundering instead of trying to cross the Alps.

urthering, “The Seven Years’ War” notes, “Representatives of seven colonies met in Albany, New York, with representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy. The goal of the Albany Congress was to solidify friendship with the Iroquois in light of the approaching war with France and to discuss the possibility of an inter-colonial union.” Congress made it clear that they wanted the Iroquois tribes to remain loyal to their government. Benjamin Franklin soon developed the Albany Plan in 1754. This plan was approved but was not set in place due to the colonists’ fears of taxation. British officials felt it gave the colonists too much freedom while the colonists believed that it did not give them enough. The plan involved levying taxes, raising troops,

People from all walks of life are drawn to the seducing curves of the Dragon at Deal’s Gap, also known as US Hwy 129. They make their pilgrimage to test their skills, or in some cases, to be bitten by the Dragon.

Many people have heard of the Trail of Tears, a long and arduous journey that many Cherokees were forced to make, but much less people know of the injustice and discrimination that all Cherokees faced in the years leading up the removal of the Cherokees. And though the removal of the Cherokees was completely illegal, the United States government still sought to justify the Cherokee removal with ideas that in retrospect proved to be mostly opinions and exaggerations.

The Trail of Tears was an awful time for Native Americans that they will never forget. Greedly, the white men wanted land that Native Americans had lived on, farmed on, and raised their families on . Inevitably, glittering, glamourous, gold was found in the land. Additionally, the land was very fertile, which meant people could create huge cotton plantations and prosper. In 1830, the U.S. President Andrew Jackson, signed the Indian Removel Act, which made some land in the Louisiana Territory, what is currently Oklahoma, Indian Territory. But the Native Americans did not want to move. So the U.S sent hostile troops to force them out of their homeland. The most brutal evacuation was the Cherokees in 1838. At least 15,000 Native

The march of the Cherokee Indians in 1836 from western North Carolina to Oklahoma, known as the “Trail of Tears,” is one of the most traumatic events in American history. By 1830, the Native Americans had adopted the written language of the Anglo-Americans and signed treaties with them guaranteeing their rights to their land. Although the Natives often adapted to the Anglo-American ways of life and many Natives converted to Christianity, the relationship between the Natives and the Anglo-American people was far from peaceful. The white Americans wanted their land. Despite the treaty, the Cherokees were forced away from their home and the majority of the Cherokee population relocated to Oklahoma. Only a small percentage of the Natives refused to leave their property. That event had numerous negative effects on the Cherokee people, which can still be seen today.

Trail of tears is a very devastating story. It's about Indians who were driven out of their homes. Not just by any soldiers but by the federal government. On the other hand, they've been planning to take them out for a long time. This story is sad because it's a battle that the Native Indians completely lost.

Out of all the tribes impacted by the Dawes Act, the Choctaw was the very first to travel in a large group across the Mississippi to escape the growing group of hostiles in their homeland. The land that they were looking for would allow them freedom, and they would be able to live simpler lives without having to worry about problems from the white race. The trek was not forgiving and many Choctaw people did not survive the search for a new homeland. About 2,500 Choctaw Indians died due to exposure to the elements, which included heat exhaustion, starvation, and illness. They were often targets of white men who killed them and stole their belongings. The Trail of Tears was a distance of more than 500 miles that three groups

The Roman Gladiator were games of fighting, the word gladiator derives from the latin word gladiatores in which to their principle. Most times gladiators came from slaves and criminal of bank but not always. Most gladiators were professional fighters. The winner of the gladiator would receive a prize such as a crown, silver dish, or a dish with prize money, and after years of victories you could even win freedom. The loser would drop his weapons and raise his finger and the emperor would decide if the loser would be killed.

Gladiators were heroes to their culture. Even though most of the gladiators were slaves, women were attracted to them. But gladiators were also degraded by society. They were not allowed to be buried in normal burial grounds.

Introduced in around 250BC, gladiators were well-trained individuals who fought against each other to entertain the civilians of Rome. The gladiators fought in the Colosseum, which had a height of about 160 feet and capacity of up to 50,000 people. The Colosseum was also designed to be able to flood and hold ships. The term gladiator comes from the Latin word: "gladius" meaning sword. The profession of being a fighter brought great fame to the individual. The theme of death brought people together to see many young men die in battle. The crowd loved vicious shows that were gory and gruesome. Many gladiators who fought in the Colosseum went on to become tremendous war heroes, due to the intense training provided by the emperor. Gladiators always wore clothing that resembled other nations that the Roman army seized. They were also given unorthodox weapons to fight with and their battles usually illustrated famous ones fought by the Roman army. Sometimes, the ‘damnati ad mortem’, individuals who committed ruthless crimes, went into the arena without a weapon. Gladiators were mostly captives of war or slaves of the rich. Some people saw the fighting as a hobby and spent much time and money picking and choosing from the best of the gladiators. A fanatic of fighting was called a "lanista", or an owner of gladiators. Keeping these gladiators in good health became very expensive over time. Different gladiators were allowed to use different weapons based on their past life. For

By birth a Thracian, Spartacus was slaved by the Roman Army then trained as a gladiator. He served in an Roman auxiliary unit for some short time, vacated his duties and became an insurgent against the Romans. Upon his escape, he became the leader of 90,000 men in a revolt against Rome. The war started in 73 B.C., when Spartacus aided those in the Gladiator school to escape by utilizing kitchen utensils as weapons. The gladiators then took refuge on the side of Mount Vesuvius (which is near modern day Naples) led by Spartacus and his aides Crixus, Castus, Gannicus and