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Back to Florida Indian Removal Act - 1830 Florida had been owned by the US Government for 11 years and wasn’t yet a state. The US wanted to settle the Florida lands and therefore, required the large removal of Native Americans who would not conform to European culture. Indians were encouraged to adopt European customs. First, they must convert to Christianity and abandon "pagan" practices. They should also learn to speak and read English, although there was a small-scale interest in creating a writing and printing system for a few Native languages, especially Cherokee. The Native Americans had to adopt the concept of individual ownership of land which was alien to many of them. Europeans saw themselves as better and more civilized and needed these backward people gone. The modern-day state of Oklahoma was established as “Indian Territory”, a far off place the US government would force all the native Americans to live.   Jackson viewed the demise of Indian...

Andrew Jackson   Andrew Jackson had a tough childhood in South Carolina. His father had died in a logging accident before Andrew was born. During the Revolutionary war Jackson’s older brother had died of heat exhaustion when he was 12. At 14 he was working for the Continental Army as a porter. Him and his other brother were captured by the British. When Andrew refused to clean the boots of a British officer, the officer slashed at the youth with a sword, leaving him with scars on his left hand and head, as well as an intense hatred for the British. Robert also refused to do as commanded and was struck with the sword. The two brothers were held as prisoners, contracted  smallpox , and nearly starved to death in captivity. Later that year, their mother Elizabeth secured the brothers' release. She then began to walk both boys back to their home, a distance of some 40 miles. Both were in very poor health. Robert, who was far worse, rode on the ...

Setting https://youtu.be/fp77mcJKsIk Martin Luther was born to a middle class family. He was sent to school to study law but decided to become a monk instead. One day he was sent on a mission to visit Rome. Initially excited to see the center of the western church, he was soon disappointed. What he expected to be the holiest city in existence was dirty, full of shameless prostitutes, theft and lazy, corrupt priests. Martin Luther visited the confession booth incessantly and he was soon seen as a problem and sent to the town of Wittenberg. While there he found solace in a writing of Paul the Apostle that said that salvation was earned through faith not works. Luther whole heartedly believed that this was the answer and the church had been corrupted for the last thousand years. This disagreement came to a head when a priest travelled to wittenberg selling indulgences for half a years wages. "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, The soul from purgatory springs....