Indian Removal And The Trail Of Tears Analysis

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One of the many things I pulled from this unit was: racism is something that we can not get away from all of the time. I took this from the slavery part of the unit. You can pull this into real life because even now we have racism. You can look at this with the George Zimmerman and the shooting of Trayvon Martin. This was mainly because he was an African American walking down the street with the hoodie on. He seemed sketchy and he was shot for it. It was a pure sign of racism, and that is not the only case. There is also the murder of Eric Garner by the cop in New York City. The man was selling single cigarettes and even broke up a fight between two other African Americans. Then the cops come and start trying to arrest him. I know that it is their jobs to protect and serve however, there was no reason for them to arrest the man, let alone put him in a choke hold, even when he was stating …show more content…
I took this from the most recent lesson, the Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears. I chose this concept because this happens all of the time now a days as well. We make decisions based on how they will affect us but don’t worry about how the effect they have on others. This happened with the Cherokee Indians and other tribes. Andrew Jackson knew that he wanted the land that the Indians had and he would do anything to get it. He didn’t care about how it would affect the Indians. He went against the Supreme Court, and moved the Indians by force. Then, by doing so he killed around 2,000 of them. It was a good decision in the eyes of President Jackson, but a horrible decision in the eyes of the Indians and the people who it directly affected. This is what happens when me make decisions that have negative effect on the people around us. An example of this is the fact that we had to write three concepts for this unit. Not really though, I actually didn’t mind

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