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The second seminole war


            
            
            
             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.


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