In the article "The Florida Quagmire," Floyd B. describes the frustrating conflicts between the U. Army and the Seminole Indian tribes of southern Florida. This unpopular war, which ended up lasting for decades, was a miserable and mucky, and was fought in dangerous jungle regions where strange diseases were nearly as large a threat as the enemy was. As the article developed, I began to sense the extreme hostility between the two sides that began with the presidential mandated campaign to remove the Seminoles to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi. This obviously upset the Seminoles, as they were being forced out of their homelands that they had known for hundreds of years. I was familiar with this already, as we studied it in class lectures as well as in the documents we watched.
Over the past couple of centuries, nature had gone through its divine selection where only the strong would survive, leaving remnants of different tribal cultures whose original tribes had been devastated by European disease, constant warfare, and the intruding of white settlers. These select few united for survival around 1700 forming the Seminole Tribe of southern Florida. This is interesting because it gives an example of how nature makes its "natural selection". The Seminoles, who had lived in peaceful contact with the white community for nearly a century, angered the U.S. with their willingness to harbor runaway slaves. This specific conflict ended up leading to the First Seminole War (1817-1818) where many Seminole were killed and enslaved by the U.S. army. I thought this was strange because all this conflict was happening in Florida and it wasn't a state until the next year when Spain ceded it to the United Sates in 1819. .
In 1830, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which was best known for the "Trail of Tears". The Seminoles boldly banded together and agreed to resist removal, and began to use guerilla war tactics in order to defeat larger and better equipped U.
The second religion is Traditional. ... There were three main Seminole Wars. These wars were fought so the Seminole Indians could stay on their land. ... But, by the end of the third war, there were few remaining Seminole Indians. Osceola was a famous Seminole leader in the second war. ...
In May 1835 in Baltimore, Maryland the second national convention of the Democratic Party was held. ... Some of the Seminole leaders signed a treaty with the U.S. in 1832, but most of the Seminole people did not follow this treaty (The First Seminole War). This was the beginning of the one Seminole war that happened during Van Buren's Administration. ... This war lasted until 1842 and ended up costing the United States more then twenty million dollars, and 1,500 soldiers and civilians dead (The Second Seminole War). In 1842 the war ended with no peace treaty signed because most Semin...
Lee was an outstanding Civil War general. ... Lee learned all of his war tactics the West Point where he graduated second in his class. ... Many southern general greats served in the Mexican War and gained experience the helped them throughout The Civil War. ... The Mexican War was also the first time the Jackson and Lee met4. ... Some Generals like Ambrose Hill severed in both The Mexican War and the Seminole War, fighting in both of those sure readied up Hill for the Civil war. ...
He also started the Bank War of the mid 1800s, which ended both the Second National Bank and the American System. ... Before his presidency, even, he spent years leading campaigns against the Creeks in Georgia and Alabama and the Seminoles in Florida. ... The Choctaw were removed first, then many, but not all Seminoles, then then Creeks, the Chickasaw, and lastly the Cherokee Indians. ... At the start of his second term, Jackson had one true goal: destroy the national bank. ... This wasn't a bloody war, but a political one. ...
Jackson emerged from the war a national hero. ... In 1818 he briefly invaded Spanish Florida to quell Seminoles and outlaws who harassed frontier settlements. ... Except for the Seminoles, most of them wanted only to coexist with the whites. ... By the end of Jackson's second administration the army had forcefully moved most of these eastern tribes to their new "home." The Black Hawk War of 1832 and the Seminole War that was renewed in 1835 represented the last efforts of the eastern Native Americans to retain their ancestral lands. ...
Braxton Bragg not only played a role in the Seminole Wars, but also in the Mexican-American wars, where he gained his most fame. He served in the second Seminole War and won several promotions for gallant and distinguished conduct during the Mexican Wars. ... He ended up back in Chattanooga, where the second battle would take place. The second battle at Chattanooga took place on Independence Day, July 4, 1863. ... On the second day of the battle, Rosecrans and the Federal Army was routed and began to retreat to Chattanooga. ...
This obstacle were the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole and, Cherokee nations that called the land their home. ... Seminoles thought that the treaties were illegitimate and decided not to leave, this lead to the Second Seminole War. Thousands of lives were lost but, in the end, Jackson spent ten times more money then just removing them and, the Seminoles finally moved to the new land, which was paid for by the United States. ...
As soon as he received his commission as lieutenant of artillery, Jackson was assigned to the war zone in Mexico. ... In 1850, after the Mexican war was over he went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians. ... Other battles Jackson fought in were The Seven Days Battles, Cedar Mountain, the Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. ... He and his Second Corps struck the Union from behind near Chancellorsville and defeated them. ... Some say if Stonewall Jackson didn't die, the South would have won the war. ...
He destroyed Seminole villages, captured Pensacola, and eventually overthrew the Spanish governor, naming himself martial governor for several months in 1821. ... The Black Hawk War was begun in 1831 by Chief Black Hawk, with the support of 300 warriors, in retaliation to the Treaty of 1804, which Black Hawk considered to be a fraud on his people. ... On March 4, 1833, President Jackson was inaugurated into his second term. ... On December 28, 1835, four days before they were to give up their Floridian settlements and move west, Seminole Indians killed Major Francis L. Dade and 10...
