The Trail of Tears: A Devastating Forced Journey Once Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1839, everything changed for the Cherokee tribe. Andrew Jackson’s administration was hostile to the Cherokee sovereignty and forced them to move out of their lands (without Cherokee agreement) and head West of the United States. The Cherokee tribe had endured […]
The Trail of Tears: An Unjust Exile of Native Americans The Trail of Tears was the removal of the Native Americans from the Southeast of the United States. Cherokee, along with the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and more Indian tribes from the southern United States, were forced to walk through nine states and across the […]
Unjust Removal and Tears of Despair The Trail of Tears is a sorrowful event in history. There were loads of dying and lots of tears. It was incredibly unfair for the Native Americans. Parts of the Trail of Tears aggravated me, but it is still a very fascinating story and interesting for all people. I […]
Revolutionary War: Mobilization, Experiences, and Scholarship War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts, Edited by John Resch and Walter Sargent, Editors. Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. John Resch and Walter Sargent’s assortment of essays unites probably the best input on the American Revolutionary War. It is isolated into two areas, one […]
Women’s Struggles and Educational Progress in the Revolutionary Era During the Revolution, women were often not treated fairly. Women during this time were thought to be inferior to men, which was evident in the lack of legal rights for married women. Women were also denied independence in economic, political, or civic matters in Anglo-American society […]
Women’s Rights and Dependence in the American Revolution N. Gundersen, Joan R. “Independence, Citizenship, and the American Revolution.” Signs, vol. 13, no. 1, 1987, pp. 59–77. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3174027. “Independence, Citizenship, and the American Revolution” “Single women had the independence of mind and property to qualify as voters, but except in New Jersey, the American […]
American Revolution: Struggle for Independence As Aristotle once said, “ Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.” A revolution can be defined as an instance of revolving or an overthrow of social order in search of a […]
