In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act to free more eastern land for white settlement. This act allowed President Andrew Jackson to forcibly remove the eastern American Indian tribes to land west of the Mississippi River. ... In "The Trail of Tears" tiger portrays this mass exodus from the eastern United States, and the hardships associated with it through very subtle ways. ... In the right middle-ground is where Tiger leads next, where an almost separate painting is located. ...

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The Yankton Sioux, also known as the Nakota, lived in the eastern Dakotas. ... White settlers and gold seekers overran the Sioux hunting grounds and killed many buffalo during the middle and late 1800's. ...

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They would tie their captives to poles in the middle of camps and slowly torture them to death. ... They did not need continued migration from Europe to sustain or expand their settlements, in part because New England and the middle colonies were very healthy places to live by seventeenth-century standards. ... In much of eastern North America, women had been the agriculturalists, responsible for planting and tending crops. ... By 1800 the remaining Native American women in the eastern third of the continent had largely succumbed to these pressures, primarily because it was impossible for I...

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By this logic, if the federal government compensates African Americans, shouldn't these African Americans, cooperatively with Middle Eastern Nations, compensate the Jews for enslaving them 2,000 years ago in the time of Pharaoh's and Pyramids? ...

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For the first time in the history of the nation, the middle classreceived the opportunity to participate in the government that ruled them. ... After 1825 the federal government attempted to remove all eastern Indians to the Great Plains area of the Far West. ...

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This brought up problems on both the western and eastern front. ... With the ongoing battles between Great Britain and France in the early 19th century, the newly formed United States found itself thrust in the middle of this struggle. ...

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The actions of the US Government with regard to the expulsion of Indian tribes east of the Mississippi during the 1830's and the actions of the Federal Government toward the Japanese-Americans in California during World War II hold many similarities and many differences. Though a century apart, the...

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The Southwest, Eastern Woodlands, Great Plains, Great Basin, Pacific Northwest, and Arctic and Subarctic are all areas in which the Native Americans that lived that made up the diverse native peoples. ... Since it is the largest piece and in the middle of the mosaic, it conveys how vital corn was as a food source (Slideshow 1: 8). ... There are also the Eastern Woodlands who relied heavily on lakes and rivers. ... Differing greatly from the Eastern Woodlands were the people of the Great Plains. ... The Native Americans also lived in the Great Basin, which is present day Nevada, Utah, Eastern C...

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There were 645 wagons in the middle of winter that set out with all the people. ... The Mississippi River was running full o ice, they had to wait on the eastern bank. 60 yeas later the miseries of that halt beside the frozen river, with hundreds of sick and dying penned up in wagons and stretched upon the ground, barefoot has not been wiped out from the memory and never will. ...

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He was different from the federalists because he appealed more to the middle class, rather than the upper. ... Appleby talks about how thousands of workers got jobs in little factories along the eastern coast which brought steam engines and water power. ...

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For the Native Americans to break free of their nomadic ways they needed to cultivate a stable food source. With hunger and sickness nipping at their feet, brought on by the lifestyle they were living, they needed to do so quickly. The Native Americans were putting themselves in great risk if they w...

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