Where were the Seminoles moved to, and why?
As the Euroamerican (that is, white) population of the United States began to increase, in the late 1700s, people began to move away from the towns and cities of the Northeast and search for other areas, where they could have “elbow room” and freedom from laws and regulations. This “frontier mentality” is what Frederick Jackson Turner wrote of as characterizing the national personality of the United States. But Native Americans were here in North America long before the Euroamericans and the Europeans never have been able to destroy them, or assimilate them, or even write them out of existence in the history books. Consequently, a major theme within the history of the United States has been the attempts of the US government to “deal with” the “Indian problem,” that is, the “problem” of how to displace the original inhabitants of this land. The US has tried making wars against the Indians, making treaties with them, and buying their land from them. In 1830, shortly after General Andrew
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