Five Civilized Tribes

purchase of the Louisiana territory from France in 1803. These lands, however, were inhabited by what is known as the “Five Civilized Tribes” of Native Americans, the Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations. They were called “Civilized,” in particular, because they had implemented writing systems, many were fully literate, had schools, and learned English. These tribes were more assimilated than any others had been, and were considered still savages by Anglo Americans. The occupation

The Trail of Tears was a testament to the cruelty and disrespect we showed toward the Native Americans. This paper will show how the United States used its legislative power and brute force to remove the Indian tribes. From the election of Andrew Jackson, and the implementation of the Indian Removal Act. The Creeks, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole and their actions against the removal process. Finally, how the Cherokee used the legal process to fight evacuation of their nation. Andrew Jackson was

to the Civil War. The first issue that arose for the Americans, was where to put the existing Indians while they conquered their land. The United States felt that the Indians needed to be secluded from all other races so that they would become civilized. This Indian Territory was

many valuable lessons to the audience. Ralph demonstrates that he is focused, civilized, and resilient throughout the duration of the book. The audience sees Ralph as a civilized boy right from the start of the book. In chapter 1 he has started an assembly in which he began a civilization and made law. He has created laws

The novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of survivors from a plane crash (ranging from ages five and up) whom are challenged by the idea of a civilized community in which they try to maintain, but is distracted by the pleasure they can consume on the island. Throughout the novel, the cause of the altering of the representation of the fire and the conch shell is due to the power shift on the island. In the beginning of the novel, the conch gives everyone an opportunity to

they were there first by thousands of years only for white men to invade and tell them to live somewhere else because the white men were superior to the natives. The second reason was that the U.S government kept breaking treaties and was forcing out tribes that had gone through the proper channels for their land. The name Indians is not actually the correct term, but the indigenous population should have been named Native Americans. The politically

DBQ: Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears Indigenous people still burdened from their past! The effects of the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of tears still causes heartache among many Indigenous people. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was an act passed by Andrew Jackson where in which Andrew Jackson would discuss and negotiate a plan to remove the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole to land west of the Mississippi in exchange Europeans would get their homeland.Georgia and the

vindictive President Andrew Jackson was regarding the Native Americans. Until 1828, the federal government agreed that Cherokee had rights to their land, but when Andrew Jackson was elected President, that all ended. Jackson refused to believe that the tribes were sovereign and thus viewed Indian treaties, as an absurdity (Warshauer). The

being treated as lesser beings. One of the reasons for immigration to America in the 17th century was so that the civilized British might colonize and Christianize the savage, brutish Natives. The idea of Native Americans being lesser than the British-American immigrants continues to this do, though not quite so out-spoken. It was most prominent in the 1800’s when numerous tribes where forced to march to designated Native American reserves. In 1830 President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal

warfare between some Northern tribes and the American colonists. To keep peace between the nations, the United States and the Cherokee signed the Treaty of Hopewell in 1785, which set the boundaries of the Cherokee land and allowed them to remove any white settlers that impeded on their land. (Hook, 19-24) In order for the white settlers and Native Americans to live together, the US government believed that the Native American people needed to become more “civilized.” Native Americans were made to