Love Letters to the Next Generation

Learning Reflection Journal – Week 10

Questions for Week 10:

1. What is one new event/individual/idea that you learned from watching We Shall Remain – Trail of Tears ?

Place your response here. From the video the We shall Remain I learned that their were many struggles between the Americans and the Indians. By 1830 the ridge had a big bargain with the united states in return for his safety and to keep his land. As a young teen the ridge was challenged by the united states

2. What is one idea/individual/event that you would have liked to seen developed further? Why?

Place your response here. I wanted to see the development of the ridge and more of what his affect was on the cheroke society. Also how many adapted the writing and how they improved their literacy trough the years so quickly.

3. Find any primary source – a photograph, document, artifact, oral history, song, map, etc.) that relates to Indian Removal in America during the 1830s? Copy and paste the image here along with citation (title, creator/author, date and the url/website where you downloaded the artifact). What does it tell us about the time period? Explain its significance.

This show the native Americans being forced out by the us government and forced to move from their land.

Place your response here

4. This week the historical theme is “The Era of the Common Man,” we are exploring how the market revolution (economics) and expansion in democracy led to more inclusion of white men into the civic body. In what ways were the promises of liberty, equality, freedom in our founding documents expanded, limited and challenged during the early nineteenth century?

Place your response. Here the promise for liberty, equality and freedom in the 1830s was rough for the Cherokee tribes as they strived and gained knowledge to attempt to keep their land but the united states under Andrew Jackson dominated and took advantage of the land.

5. This week we have been exploring the historical thinking idea of complexity. As Professor Lacy argued in 12 Cs of Historical Thinking: “History is messy, complicate and not easily summarized – though it’s the job of historians to distill evidence and make some sense, or meaning, of history’s complexity….Assessing complexity involves rigor.” How do make sense of the evidence surrounding the Cherokee removal (differing views in the Cherokee nation, the role of President Jackson, the state and federal courses), Northern missionaries/reformers supporting the Cherokee, white Georgians, the military, enslaved and freed Black people in Georgia).

Place your response here. I think the best way to make sense of the events that occurred during the time Jackson was president is to pay close attention to the relationships between the natives and the Americans. Also the roles of the ridge and John ross as he caused much controversy trying to keep his land.