1) Read the two provided YAWP readings.
2) Read pages 287 293 and page 481 of the US History online text.
I will email you the online textbook and also a link to the YAWP readings.
Here is the URL link if you want just copy and paste into the search, should just take you there.
YAWP #1
YAWP #2
Answer the following questions within your initial posting:
1.From the YAWP reading, in what ways did the Cherokee people adopt white American culture?
2. Why did the Cherokee change some of their cultural characteristics?
3.From the YAWP reading, it states that manifest destiny motivated wars of American expansion. What did manifest destiny and American expansion mean for Native Americans?
4. Some people apply the term genocide or ethnic cleansing to the Trail of Tears. What are your thoughts on the use of this terminology? Does it represent what happened?
5. Do you think that the painting Trail of Tears by Robert Lindneux is a true snap-shot of what the Trail of Tears looked and felt like? Why or why not? Support your opinion.
6. Why were President Jackson and Congress allowed to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court’s order that the Cherokee were legally allowed to stay on their lands?
7.Did the colonial settlers use the Doctrine of Discovery (or the idea of it) to justify taking Native tribal lands? Explain.
8. What are the connections between power, land, and the law in the context of Indian Removal?
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