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    golf professional recommended I investigate at a major in Professional Golf Management. With my passion for golf and my six years of experience working at golf courses the PGA Golf Management major at Florida State University (FSU) was a great fit for me. The beginning of my time at Florida State University I was not convinced I had made the right decision to pursue a major in Professional Golf Management. My studies weakened and I changed majors numerous times. Had it not been for the roadblocks

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    Trail Of Tears

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    occurred. Jackson wanted them to leave Mississippi and the United States agreed to pay the expense of traveling as long as the Choctaws had moved out in two and a half years from when the treaty was agreed upon. The Seminole removals began in 1832, when the United States obtained Florida from Spain with the Adams-Onis Treaty. The tribe was also told to move further west. They were to merge with the Creek, who they had derived from. The Seminoles strongly combated with the government’s rulings and fought

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    than 10,000 years ago with a settlement of Paleo-Indians along the edge of south Biscayne Bay near today’s Charles Deering Estate. Many millennia later, Tequesta Indians entered the lush, subtropical area and built settlements stretching from the Florida Keys to Broward County, with the largest concentrations along the north bank of the Miami River and on Key Biscayne. Like Florida’s other native inhabitants, who numbered more than 350,000 at the time of the Spanish entrada in 1513, the lifestyle

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    Andrew Jackson Summary

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    Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was a great man in many eyes. I will discuss his high and low when he was in his presidency from 1829 -1837. He was known for his iron will and fiery personality, and strong use of the powers of his office. This was probably why people called it the "Age of Jackson." Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767. His parent died when he was 14. After he study law in North Carolina, Jackson moved to Nashville, Tennessee. While in Tennessee, he practiced law for another

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    Jay Gould, can represent the Westward Expansion of the United States. In the early 1800s, the United States started trying to expand west. The U.S. acquired Florida, Texas, the Gadsden Territory, the Mexican Cession, the Oregon Territory, and the Louisiana Territory. All of those acquisitions helped evolve the United States into what it is today. Almost all of the land we own is from the Westward Expansion. Unfortunately, the United States were greedy and had to keep branching and expanding out west

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    The United States started out as a real small country back in the 1700’s. The country wanted to expand their land so they created something called “Manifest Destiny”. Manifest Destiny was where the United States wanted to own all land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The United States was usually able to get the land they wanted pretty easily but Some land they wanted took time and war to claim it. James K. Polk was the President during the end of Manifest Destiny so he was the first

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    Mooney English 11B Travis DeVore April 13th, 2014 Manifest Destiny Research Paper: The 1840’S were years of unprecedented growth for United States; in a mere four years, the national domain more than doubled with an additional 1.2 million miles being added to the country. (PBS) This was due to a movement called Manifest Destiny that suggested that the United States was “destined” to stretch from coast, sea to shining sea, uninterrupted by anything or anyone. (History.com) However, complex and underlying

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    To this day, the federal government and many people choose to leave the Yuchi tribe unrecognized and left with a bad reputation, despite the fact that their creative and insightful culture has no relation with any other known tribe. The Yuchi tribe created numerous things ranging from the Indian football game that celebrates an understanding of gender, to bigger and more significant things such as their own stock language otherwise known as Uchean. Even with the amazing historical culture and ideas

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    government the right to exchange land west of the Mississippi for Indian Territory in the state borders. Some tribes relocated peacefully, but most resisted the relocation. The United States government forced Cherokee Indians to move and 4,000 of them died being relocated giving the forced movement the name “Trail of Tears.” The Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears In the early nineteenth century, the United States wanted position in the West, power was still in the hands of Native peoples. The Native

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    Henry Morrison Biography

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    Working Bibliography Gannon, Michael, The History of Florida. University Press of Florida, c2013. Michael Gannon, in The History of Florida, covers pre-Columbian Florida and realize what the scene resembled when the first European voyagers arrived. Travel through the historical backdrop of movement and ethnicity in Florida, the lines of the Seminole and Miccosukee people groups, and the social orders of the free and subjugated Africans in the state. Tail U.S. statehood in 1845 to the common war,

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