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During these times of insurrection, white vigilance through terror, torture, and killings increased including bribing African Americans and Indians to do the corrupt work for them. The threat of African Americans aligning with Indians complicated matters for the whites. African Americans among the Indians would achieve freedom easier and would in turn help Indians fortify their defenses against whites who sought a policy of removing Indians west of the Mississippi River. The reluctance of many African Americans to leave Florida or separate from the Seminoles was intensified by their importance as food suppliers to the Indians, and they also had a special attachment to the land they cleared, tilled, and planted crops in Florida for decades that more rights and privileges under Spanish and British rule gave them. Consequently Seminole Indian unwillingness to return to Creek authority control in Oklahoma, from whom they had continuously separated for many decades, were important considerations to resist removal for both African Americans and Seminoles. …show more content…

in 1826 to accompany Micanopy for preliminary meetings regarding the future Payne’s Landing Treaty (1832) earned him his freedom. While Abraham received his freedom from Micanopy, his free status would not be formally recorded until 1835. Although Southeastern Native American mythology regarded the African American as an inferior being to both Indians and whites, they understood that African Americans played an influential role in negotiating treaties with the federal government and respected their participation. This treaty was being created to further expedite the moving of the Seminoles out of Florida since the earlier Treaty of Moultrie Creek did not address the issue of removal from Florida. While the Moultrie Creek treaty specified removal from Florida within 20 years or so, the federal government desired to shorten the time to three years with the Payne’s Landing

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That would soon to be lead to the signing of the Treaty of Payne's Landing (the Treaty of Payne’s Landing was signed on May 9, 1832). Which would move the Seminoles to Indian territory. Soon after that, Micanopy backed another leader, called Osceola who opposed the removal. Osceola then killed the Seminole agent, General Wiley Thompson (December 1835). Micanopy fired back and destroyed Maj.

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Having ratified the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1821, the United States officially purchased Florida from Spain. Taking control, American officials concluded the Treaty of Moultrie Creek two years later which established a large reservation in central Florida for the Seminoles. By 1827, the majority of the Seminoles had moved to the reservation and Fort King (Ocala) was constructed nearby under the guidance of Colonel Duncan L. Clinch. Though the next five years were largely peaceful, some began to call for the Seminoles to be relocated west of the Mississippi River. This was partially driven by issues revolving around the Seminoles providing sanctuary for escaped slaves.

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The Act led to an array of legal and moral arguments for and against the need to relocate the Indians westward from the agriculturally productive lands of the Mississippi in Georgia and parts of Alabama. This paper compares and contrasts the major arguments for and against the

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Between 1830 and 1850, the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, Creek, Seminole and Cherokee peoples were forced to leave their homelands to relocate further west. The Cherokee Nation removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1829, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush.1 During the Trail of Tears (1838-1839), the Cherokee tribes were moved to the Indian Territory, near the Ozarks. They initially settled near Tahlequah, Oklahoma. This is where the tribes historically settled in 1838 to 1839, after the Indian Removal Act of 1830 passed during the presidency of Andrew Jackson.2 The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw

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The relationship between the United States Government and the Seminole Nation was strained the moment they met due to the Seminole and the United States going to war with each other. In the year 1817-18, the first war began due to the Seminole people protecting the runaway black slaves who had who were living in the Seminole nation. Due to the Seminole people losing and the United States wanting the runaways back, the Seminole Nation created the two treaties in hope the United States would leave them alone and would help benefit them more. The Seminole Nation covenants that henceforth in said nation slavery shall not exist, nor involuntary servitude, except for and in punishment of crime, of which the offending party shall first have been duly

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Jackson faced the issue of Indian removal throughout his eight year in office. He made about 70 treaties with Native American tribes both in South and the Northwest. Jackson presidency marked as a new era in Indian-Anglo American relations imitating a policy if Indian removal. His annual message of December of 1829 contained extensive remarks on the present and future state of American Indians in the United States. It contained many observations, assessments, and prejudices about Native Americans that had been widely held by Native American hunters makers since Thomas Jefferson’s presidency.

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The “loose association” among the Seminole bands and disagreements among members within the bands gave rise to many unknowns about the intentions behind those who signed the treaty, and those Seminoles in Florida who refused to accept the authority of the chiefs who travelled to the Indian Territory. Furthermore, the African Americans among the Seminoles, including Abraham, were convinced that moving to the Indian Territory, where the Creeks occupied the land, risked re-enslavement. Like many white planters, the Creeks persisted with federal claims on escaped slaves who sought refuge among the Seminoles. The African Americans, Abraham among them, fearing this, worked hard at convincing the Seminole Indians to oppose removal.

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During the Seminole Wars, blacks fought fiercely against the U.S to avoid going back to white plantations and fall back into slavery. The considerable amount of blacks with in the Seminole Nation were all seen as runaway slave and a significant threat by white southerners.

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Jackson was wanting to change Washington and America. He done that very fast. The very first major piece of legislation, Jackson had recommended and got passed, was the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This act forced Jackson to prevent all the Indian tribes to live East of the Mississippi River. There were five Indian nations that were highly effected.

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The Trail of Tears was a massive transport of thousands of Native Americans across America. After the Indian removal act was issued in 1830 by president Andrew Jackson, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole tribes were taken from their homelands and transported through territories in what many have called a death march. The government, on behalf of the new settlers ' cotton picking businesses, forced the travel of one hundred thousand Native Americans across the Mississippi River to a specially designated Indian territory for only the fear and close-mindedness of their people. The Native Americans were discriminated against by not only their new government, but also the people of their country and forced to undertake one of the most difficult journeys of their lives.

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Andrew Jackson was said to be a divergent president in many ways, especially for his unique background compared to the wealthy ones of the previous presidents. He started off as an orphan and made his way up to becoming a general in the military, then became a frontier and started working in office soon later. Jackson’s presidency was held during an age known as the Age of the Common Man where he was determined to always do what was best for the common people and protect them from the powers of the rich and the privileged. With his success as a populist in his own Jacksonian Democracy, Jackson was able to seduce the American people but frighten the political and economic elite. Although Jackson had good intentions with what he wanted to accomplish

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The Seminole wars were a series of wars fought between the United States military and the Seminole Indians in the long line of American-Indian Wars. Their consequences and influence over the Southeastern United States is undeniable. I will talk about the background of the Seminole Wars, including the history of the Florida region in relation to Native Americans, as well as general United States policy regarding Natives, each of the wars individually, and finally the effect these wars had on the region. Of these Indian Wars, the Seminole Wars would prove to be the longest and most expensive. There would exist palpable tension between European settlers and Native Americans from the 16th century to present.

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The Indian Removal Act was signed in 1830 by President Andrew Jackson to remove the Cherokee Indians from their homes and force them to settle west of the Mississippi River. The act was passed in hopes to gain agrarian land that would replenish the cotton industry which had plummeted after the Panic of 1819. Andrew Jackson believed that effectively forcing the Cherokees to become more civilized and to christianize them would be beneficial to them. Therefore, he thought the journey westward was necessary. In late 1838, the Cherokees were removed from their homes and forced into a brutal journey westward in the bitter cold.

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One factor that led to the removal of the Indians at the Trail of Tears was white settlers who were influenced and driven by the belief in Manifest Density to expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean(westward), but it was complicated by the discovery of gold on the Indian lands which convinced many other settlers to move into California and get Indians

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When the Europeans began colonizing the New World, they had a problematic relationship with the Native Americans. The Europeans sought to control a land that the Natives inhabited all their lives. They came and decided to take whatever they wanted regardless of how it affected the Native Americans. They legislated several laws, such as the Indian Removal Act, to establish their authority. The Indian Removal Act had a negative impact on the Native Americans because they were driven away from their ancestral homes, forced to adopt a different lifestyle, and their journey westwards caused the deaths of many Native Americans.

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