Mississippi History: Indian Removal Act, 13th Amendment, and Reverend George Lee

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Mississippi History has become the state its now because of many events, government actions, cultural changes, and writers. Indian Act Removal Act, 13th Amendment, and Reverend George Lee played a big impact Mississippi current status. The Removals of Indians increased the Europeans power and lessened the Indian population. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. Reverend George Lee was shot down for urging blacks to vote. All these contributed to Mississippi History.

The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. The act authorized him to negotiate with the Native Americans in the Southern Non- Native Americans supported the act heavily. Christian missionaries opposed this act was future President Abraham Lincoln, future New Jersey Theodore Frelinghuysen and Congressman Davy Crockett spoke against the legislation. It later was passed by Congress. Due to the Indian Removal Act the current Native American population is very low. --The Removal Act of 1830, section I, in The American Indian and the United States, A Documentary History, ed. Wilcomb E. Washburn, vol. 3 (New York: Random House, 1973) 2169"That in the making of any such exchange or exchanges, it shall and may be lawful for the President solemnly to assure the tribe or nation with which the exchange is made, that the United States will forever secure and guaranty to them, and their heirs or successors, the country so exchanged with them and if they prefer it, that the United States will cause a patent or grant to be made and executed to them for the same: Provided always, Those lands shall revert to the United States, if the Indians become extinct, or abandon the same." (http://www.columbia.edu/~lmg21/BC3180/removal.html).

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...ppi. He was supposedly the first African American to vote in Humphrey's County, Mississippi. In 1953 Reverend George Lee and Gus Courts established the Belzoni branch of the NAACP. He later becomes vice president of Regional Council of Negro Leadership. In 1995 he was shot in the face and killed for urging African-Americans to vote. Although eyewitness saw a carload of white people drive by and shoot into Lee's car, authorities failed to charge anyone. Governor Hugh White refused to send investigators to Belzoni where the murder occurred. His death sparked a big momentum in civil rights movement and also showed the flaws in the so called rights for Africans Americans in Mississippi. His life also provided an illustration of the philosophy of Booker T. Washington that an economic foundation provided the necessary precondition to build a movement for political rights.

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