... as pottery. The Cherokee used bows and arrows to hunt deer, bear, rabbit, and other forest animals. In the 1540's, Spanish explorer, Hernando DeSoto, searched Cherokee land in search of gold. They treated the Cherokee badly but they started a trading business. The Spanish gave them steel axes to chop trees, metal pin to replace ones of bone, and knives. About a hundred ... , a constitution, and even their own two-house legislature. But this would soon see no future development, for soon they would be brutally kicked out of their home again. In 1828 gold was discovered in the center of th...

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... aflame with conflict an soon after, the American Army was brought in. New forts were built to protect the settlers from constant ambushes and assaults brought on by the Natives. Gold was eventually discovered in the Black Hills and miners immediately flocked to the site. The sudden migration infuriated the Sioux, seeing as the Black Hills are a sacred land, thus triggering ... their children. From that day forward, a beautiful new flower, a rose, grew wherever a mother's tear fell to the ground. The rose is white, for the mother's tears. It has a gold center, for the gold taken from the...

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... banks, wildcat banks issued notes of their own that were backed up by insufficient specie reserves. Soon the ratio of paper notes to gold or silver was 12 to 1: $12 of paper money was in circulation for every $1 of gold or silver in the nation's banks. The result was runaway inflation. On July 11, 1836, Jackson issued his Specie Circular. It directed ... government agents to accept only gold or silver for the sale of land. Jackson had hoped that this would stop speculation. Speculators had been using paper money to buy up huge tracts of land from the ... ...

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... his way. When he landed on the coast of the Americas, he met the natives and called them Indians. As a sign of peace towards the explorer's, the Indians presented to a gold crown to Columbus. Columbus took the offering as a sign of power and authority. Columbus then returned to Europe to gather his troops. He landed again in the New World and ... used his power of authority against the Indians. He gained from the tribe gold, land and slaves. With the help of Columbus and other explorers, the Americas were beginning to be colonized by the Europeans. One of the reasons so many people were...

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"The Trail Of Tears" This name ("The Trail of Tears") comes from the Cherokee phrase "Nunna daul Tsuny", which means "The Trail Where They Cried". In 1829, white settlers discovered gold in Georgia on Cherokee land. They wanted the land for themselves and requested the removal of the Cherokee. Supporters of President Andrew Jackson, who was an Indian fighter, helped pass ... their children. From that day forward, a beautiful new flower, a rose, grew wherever a mother's tear fell to the ground." The rose is white, for the mother's tears. It has a gold center, for the gold taken from the Cher...

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... land was in Indian hands. Americans moved into Arkansas They ignored the treaties. The Indians who fled to California were being displaced by miners, farmers and ranchers. The discovery of gold g forming around the Indian people, so that expansion from the East was equaled by expansion from the West. ( Brill, The Trail of tears: The Cherokee journey from home.) The Lakota ... watched their lands, cut to almost a third and then again until nearly all was gone. The gold prospect was a delight to the Americans along the way. Then In the 1880s, came Wovoka, who offered a message of hope and...

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... to save the doomed fate of the nation. 1828 was a fatal year for the Cherokee nation for several reasons. Early in 1828, gold was discovered in modern day Georgia setting off a mad dash to the state to mine for gold. In response to this invasion of the Cherokee territory, the Cherokees fought back by attacking these mining settlements and American troops had ... ...

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... of cholera three months after his presidential term ended in 1849. He died an accomplished man. Following his death, thousands of Americans rushed out west to California in search of gold. Without James Polk's accomplishments, the prosperity of the Gold Rush and Western Expansion may never have come to pass. ...

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... hated the Bank of the United States. No bank in America had more power than it, and Jackson mistrusted monopolistic banking. The Bank of the U.S. controlled much of the nation's gold and silver. The President of the Bank was Nicholas Biddle. The war between Jackson and Biddle erupted in 1832, when Daniel Webster and Henry Clay presented Congress with a bill to ... ...

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... and wealthy politicians who used the fluctuating cash value to remove large sum's of money from the bank. The Specie Circular act required that all land would be bought in gold and silver pieces. The Deposit act raised the amount of banks that were deposit banks. In the end, it was the Jacksonian policy which help reformed America's economy and financial ... ...

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... Supreme Court decisions in 1831 and 1832 upholding the rights of the Cherokee nation over the State of Georgia who had wanted to destroy Cherokee jurisdiction on it's land because gold had been found on it, and the state seeing the Indians as tenants on state land decided to "kick them out". Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Georgia had no ... ...

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... pushed people to the brink of bankruptcy and failure, state and local banks also arrived at that point because they made loans that they did not have equal amounts in gold or silver to back up. Distrust everywhere, by mostly everyone in the system of the Bank had arrived at an all time high. But a resurgence by the bank in the ... ...

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... unable to pay back their loans, inflation and land value went up. Also, Jackson had little faith in paper money and mandated that federal land could only be purchased with gold and silver. This attempt destabilized the national currency, decreased coined money in markets, and showed favoritism in Jacksonian policies. Like most Jacksonian economic policies it failed, and the reduction in ... ...

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... decisions in 1831 and 1832 upholding the rights of the Cherokee nation over the State of Georgia who had wanted to destroy Cherokee jurisdiction on it's land. This was because gold had been found on it, and the state seeing the Indians as tenants on state land decided to "kick them out". Some of the Cherokees even had slaves and should ... ...

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... . On December 8, 1829 Jackson gives a speech and the objective seemed to be to convert the Cherokee Indians from hunters into cultivators but the underlying reason for the movement is for gold which was found in Georgia. (Doc.O) In 1906 Jackson gave the Cherokee Indians an ultimatum, which stated the Cherokee Indians move west of the Mississippi or they will have to ... ...

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... of nutrients due to the growth of tobacco and cotton. Lastly, Jackson put the Specie Circular into effect. This ordered the purchase of land to be made through silver and gold only, which essentially stabilized the dollar that had been inflated dramatically. Social factors were also affected by Jackson's presidency. Jackson promoted the "common man" image, which related to the majority ... ...

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... in Georgia each family was allowed 160 acres, without a deed, and here they were forbidden to hold a council or to assemble for any public purpose, or to even dig for gold upon their own lands. The U.S. agreed that the land herein guaranteed to the Cherokees shall never be included within any state or territory. After the meeting there was no further ... ...

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... and wealthy politicians who used the fluctuating cash value to remove large sum's of money from the bank. The Specie Circular act required that all land would be bought in gold and silver pieces. The Deposit act raised the amount of banks that were deposit banks. In the end, it was the Jacksonian policy which help reformed America's economy and financial ... ...

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... from a wandering life," seems like the object of Jackson's speech is trying to convert the Cherokee Indians from hunters into cultivators, but the underlying reason for the movement is for gold which was found in Georgia. "Actuated by this view of the subject, I informed the Indians inhabiting parts of Georgia and Alabama that their attempt to establish an independent government would ... ...

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... gradually reclaiming them from a wandering life." Converting the Cherokee Indians from hunters into cultivators seems like the object of Jackson's speech, but the underlying reason for the movement is for gold which was found in Georgia. "Actuated by this view of the subject, I informed the Indians inhabiting parts of Georgia and Alabama that their attempt to establish an independent government would ... ...

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... was that of ruin for Martin Van Buren, his successor. What started out as a humongous influx of specie silver caused British banks to ask for payment of loans in specie gold and silver, caused a large New Orleans cotton firm to go under when it could not fulfill its obligations to make payments to the British bank. This firm was a catalyst in ... ...

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... 1832 is commensurate with his "common man" ideal. Jackson's own failure in business, partly due to the collapse of paper credit, made Jackson a believer in hard money, the use of gold and silver as the only means of money. Jackson argued that Bank was a financial monopoly. The Bank of the United States restrained the state banks from issuing notes freely. Although ... ...

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... money form, which was basically useless. In repose to this, Jackson issued the Specie Circular, which stated that land could be bought only with money that is directly backed by gold and/or silver. As a result of this, many banks failed, cotton prices plummeted, many business entered bankruptcy, and there were many unemployed people. This then became known as the Panic ... ...

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... gradually reclaiming them from a wandering life." Converting the Cherokee Indians from hunters into cultivators seems like the object of Jackson's speech, but the underlying reason for the movement is for gold, which was found in Georgia. "Actuated by this view of the subject, I informed the Indians inhabiting parts of Georgia and Alabama that their attempt to establish an independent government would ... ...

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... . This was also invested in future railroads and canals. Foreign goods were being imported more frequently. The state governments, companies and everyday people began to keep their specie, which is gold and silver. Andrew Jackson, the President at the time thought the use of the paper money increase was not good for the government. The Specie Circular was issued by Jackson ... ...

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