Hannah Davis and Colleen Garrigan
Coach Bradach
Outdoor Education
2 March 2015
Great Smoky Mountains National Park The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established in 1934 and is located on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. It is home to a large, diverse group of plants and animals and offers an array of activities that visitors can enjoy. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park in total encompasses 522,419 acres of land. Therefore, it is one of the largest protected areas in the United States. This national park has over 200,000 visitors every year due to its unique attractions and natural features. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to sixteen mountains that all reach higher than 6,000
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In the 1830’s, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which forced all Indian tribes to move west of the Mississippi River. White settlers then arrived and started to use the land for timber, which destroyed the lands natural beauty. Because of this, locals raised money to preserve the land. The U.S. National Park Service decided to create a national park there and John D. Rockefeller donated $5 million to make it happen. One by one miners, loggers, and homesteaders were evicted and the park was officially established in …show more content…
The park is home to 65 species of mammals, 200 types of birds, 67 fish species, and 80 types of amphibians and reptiles. The animal that is most commonly found in the park, and the symbol of The Great Smoky Mountains, is the American Black Bear. Biologists believe there are about 1,500 bears that live in the park. Some of the other abundant mammals in the park include white-tailed deer, groundhogs, chipmunks, squirrels, and bats. Of the 200 species of birds living in the park, 85 species migrate from tropical regions and 120 species nest in the park. The park has about 50 native species of fish including the brook trout. The brook trout’s habitat was forcibly taken by active fisheries management and they were being replaced with non-native rainbow and brown trout. The Great Smoky National Park is also home to four endangered small fish, which include the Smoky Madtom, the Yellowish Madtom, the Spotfin Chub, and the Duskytail Darter. Lastly, the park is known for being the “Salamander Capital of the World.” There are 30 different salamander species within five families, making the park one of the most diverse areas on earth for this order of
Under the Jackson Administration, the changes made shaped national Indian policy. Morally, Andrew Jackson dismissed prior ideas that natives would gradually assimilate into white culture, and believed that removing Indians from their homes was the best answer for both the natives and Americans. Politically, before Jackson treaties were in place that protected natives until he changed those policies, and broke those treaties, violating the United States Constitution. Under Jackson’s changes, the United States effectively gained an enormous amount of land. The removal of the Indians west of the Mississippi River in the 1830’s changed the national policy in place when Jackson became President as evidenced by the moral, political, constitutional, and practical concerns of the National Indian Policy.
As the frontier moved west, white settlers wanted to expand into territory, which was the ancestral land of many Indian tribes. Although this had been going on since the administration of George Washington, during the administration of Andrew Jackson the government supported the policy of resettlement, and persuaded many tribes to give up their claim to their land and move into areas set aside by Congress as Indian Territory. In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Resettlement Act, which provided for the removal of Indians to territory west of the Mississippi River. While Jackson was President, the government negotiated 94 treaties to end Indian titles to land in the existing states.
Andrew Jackson signed the indian removal act in 1830. This act allowed him to make treaties with the natives and steal their lands. The Trail of Tears was a forced relocation of more than 15,000 cherokee Indians. The white men/people gave the natives 2 options: 1. Leave or 2. Stay and Assimilate (learn our culture). The natives couldn’t have their own government. There were 5 civilized tribes including the cherokees. They learned english and went to american schools and when the cherokees went to court they won.
... the unwilling tribes west of the Mississippi. In Jackson’s letter to General John Coffee on April 7, 1832, he explained that the Cherokees were still in Georgia, and that they ought to leave for their own benefit because destruction will come upon them if they stay. By 1835, most eastern tribes had unwillingly complied and moved west. The Bureau of Indian Affairs was created in 1836 to help out the resettled tribes. Most Cherokees rejected the settlement of 1835, which provided land in the Indian territory. It was not until 1838, after Jackson had left office, that the U.S. Army forced 15,000 Cherokees to leave Georgia. The hardships on the “trail of tears” were so great that over 4,000 Cherokees died on their heartbreaking westward journey. In conclusion, the above statement is valid and true. The decision the Jackson administration made to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River was a reformulation of the national policy. Jackson, along with past Presidents George Washington, James Monroe, and Thomas Jefferson, tried to rid the south of Indians This process of removing the native people was continuous as the years went on.
In May 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which forced Native American tribes to move west. Some Indians left swiftly, while others were forced to to leave by the United States Army. Some were even taken away in chains. Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, strongly reinforced this act. In the Second State of the Union Address, Jackson advocated his Indian Policy. There was controversy as to whether the removal of the Native Americans was justified under the administration of President Andrew Jackson. In my personal opinion, as a Native American, the removal of the tribes was not in any way justified.
Then General, later to become President, Jackson began the later Indian Removal movement when he conquered Tecumseh’s allied Indian nation and began distributing their lands (of which he invested heavily in). Jackson became the leader of the distribution of Indian lands and distributed them in unequal ways. In 1828 when Jackson was running for President his platform was based upon Indian Removal, a popular issue which was working its way through Congress in the form of a Bill. Jackson won a sweeping victory and began to formulate his strategies which he would use in an "Indian Removal campaign". In 1829, upon seeing that his beloved Bill was not being enforced Jackson began dealing with the Indian tribes and offering them "untouchable" tracts of lands west of the Mississippi River if they would only cede their lands to the US and move themselves there. Jackson was a large fan of states rights-ism, hence he vetoed the charter for ...
The Indian Removal Act was the only major piece of legislation passed during Jackson's eight years as President. The Indian removal was so important to Jackson that he went back to Tennessee to have the first negotiations in person. He gave the Indians a couple simple alternatives. Alternatives like to submit to state authorities, or migrate beyond the Mississippi. Jackson offered generous aid on one hand while holding the threat of subjugation on the other.
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act. This let him negotiate with the Native Americans for their lands. Although the si...
Under Andrew Jackson, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, in which Natives were forcibly removed from their homes and went to Oklahoma. And much hunting ground. This: destroyed way of life, disrupted leadership, destroyed economy, destroyed religion, and created conflicts among Indians themselves.” In 1878, the Timber and Stone Act let people buy land that was “unfit for cultivation” for really cheap prices.
Proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina-Tennessee. Map. S.l., 1926. Mapping the National Parks. Lib. of Congress. 15 March 2010.
The Indian Removal Act In 1829 Andrew Jackson wrote a message to congress discussing the problem with the Indians living within the states. He said that they were either to live by the laws of the state or they would move them somewhere else by force. When they put this into place they offered the Indians free land and happiness.
Everglades National Park is sanction to some of the most exceptional animal and plant ecosystems. From the tall, sunny rock pinelands to the humid, lush hardwood hammocks to the tropical, sawgrass marsh, the everglades is believed to be one of the most diverse and astonishing ecosystems in the United States. Sounds of birds tickle your eardrums, beautiful flowers bloom in the radiant morning sun, animals graze peacefully as they go about their day in their natural habitat. It is a breath taking sight and the most popular place for sightseers to go observe the wildlife or kick back and relax and take in the soothing fresh air.
America’s wilderness areas are vitally important for our nation's health and well-being. Preserving America’s Wilderness areas is necessary for conservation of resources, it is necessary for the survival of Human, and necessary in maintaining biodiversity.
In 1830, the President of the United States Andrew Jackson issued an order for the removal of the Native Americans, which passed through both houses of Congress. “When Andrew Jackson became president (1829–1837), he decided to build a systematic approach to Indian removal on the basis of these legal precedents.” (William. Pg 5). It gave the president power to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi. Under these treaties, the Indians were to give up their lands east of the Mississippi in exchange for lands to the west. “Thomas Jefferson was the original instigator of the idea of removing a...
Many parts of the Appalachian Mountains are pleasing to the eye. The Great Smoky Mountains are one of a kind mountains. I was on the top of one of the mountains and the view was breathtaking