Faith Tong Week 6: Freedom is given and taken away?
Freedom Is Given And Taken Away? Faith Tong This year in history, my teacher really discussed more in depth about the harms and cruelties the Native Americans had gone through. It led me to ponder this question: How can America be considered a country of freedom when we stole it from another group of people and stripped them of their culture and heritage? The contradictory nature that America has truly amuses me but is also disappointing at the same time. The president behind all these actions is known as Andrew Jackson. He’s also the person I wanted to research more in depth for the Person of American Significance project. Jackson was the one who allowed open prejudice against Native Americans, signing laws here and there to prevent the Native Americans from living their way of life peacefully and constantly used violence to suppress and drown out Native Americans’ voice. I believe the government also backed him up on it, responding with full sca...