can any tell me some one who has made a diffence in the world?

Question

I need this by the end of today march 08 2007. so give me some one good, its for school work.

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson

By the early 19th century, the United States felt threatened by England and Spain, who held land in the western continent. American settlers continued to clamor for more land. Thomas Jefferson proposed the creation of a buffer zone between U. S. and European holdings, to be inhabited by eastern American Indians. The plan would also allow for American expansion westward from the original colonies to the Mississippi River.

President Andrew Jackson set a policy to relocate eastern Indians. In 1830, the policy was endorsed when Congress passed the Indian Removal Act to force those remaining to move west of the Mississippi. By the late 1830's, Indian nations located between the original states and the Mississippi River, including Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole, had signed over 40 treaties ceding most of their lands to the United States. Between 1830 and 1850, about 100,000 American Indians living between Michigan, Louisiana, and Florida moved west after the U. S. government coerced treaties or used the U. S. Army against those who resisted. Many were treated brutally. An estimated 3,500 Creek died in Alabama and on their westward journey. Some were transported in chains.



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The Cherokee
The Cherokee had historically occupied lands in eight southeastern states. Calling themselves "Ani Yunwiya," which means "The Principal People," they had developed a system of social order and participatory democracy based on sacred law long before the white man arrived. Cherokee society was organized through seven mother-descent clans. It was through the mother that children gained dan identity, which afforded them citizenship. Meeting in a seven-sided structure, both men and women participated in the general council. Principal Chiefs were elected, and the Beloved Woman was speaker for the Women's Council. As the number of European settlers increased, many Cherokee inter-married with them, adopting and adapting to European customs, including the disenfranchisement of women. Gradually, the people as a whole turned to an agricultural economy while being pressured to give up traditional homelands.

"When the first lands were sold by Cherokees, in 1721, a part of the tribe bitterly opposed the sale, saying... the whites would never be satisfied, but would soon want a little more, and a little more again, until there would be little left for the Indians. Finding [they could not] prevent the treaty, they determined to leave their old homes forever and go far into the West, beyond the great River, where the white man could never follow them."

Legend of the "Lost Cherokees"
James Mooney, Ethnologist
who lived among the Cherokee from 1887 to 1890
During the time of French and Spanish occupation of the Louisiana Territory, some Cherokee had already begun to migrate to what is now northern Arkansas and southeast Missouri and to other areas west of the Mississippi. Their kinsmen who remained in the east referred to them as the "Lost Cherokees." In a letter to President Monroe, drafted on November 2, 1819, Chief John Ross referred to the Cherokee west of the Mississippi River as


"..the Cherokees on the St. Francis River who had moved there great many years before. "

By the 1820's, Sequoyah's syllabary brought literacy and a central governing system with a written constitution. In 1830--the same year the Indian Removal Act was passed-- gold was discovered on Cherokee lands. The State of Georgia held lotteries to give Cherokee land and gold rights to whites. Cherokees were not allowed to conduct tribal business, contract, testify in courts against whites or mine for gold. The Cherokees challenged Georgia in the U. S. Supreme Court and were successful. Although most Cherokee opposed removal, a minority led by Major John Ridge felt that they might survive as a people only if they signed a treaty with the U. S.
In December, 1835, the U. S. sought out this minority to effect a treaty at New Echota, Georgia. Only 300 to 500 Cherokee were there--none were elected officials of the Cherokee Nation. Twenty signed the treaty, ceding all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi to the U. S. in exchange for $5 million and new homelands in Indian Territory. More than 15,000 Cherokee protested the illegal treaty. Yet, on May 23, 1836, the Treaty of New Echota was ratified by the U. S. Senate--by just one vote.

Later, from his new home on Honey Creek in the Indian Territory, John Ridge, one of the signers of the Treaty of New Echota, would write in a letter,



"John Ridge signed his death warrant when he signed that treaty. And no one knows it better than he....John Ridge may not die tomorrow...but sooner or later he will have to yield his life as the penalty for signing."


Cherokee Chief John Ross
A Cherokee law, originally drafted by Ridge himself and passed by the National Council in 1828, specified the death penalty for any Cherokee who agreed to sell or dispose of tribal lands.
Most Cherokee, including Chief John Ross, did not believe that they would be forced to move. In May, 1838, federal troops and state militias began the roundup of the Cherokee into concentration camps. In spite of warnings to troops to treat the Cherokee kindly, the roundup proved harrowing. Families were separated--the elderly and ill forced out at gunpoint-- people given only moments to collect cherished possessions. White looters followed, burning or occupying homesteads as Cherokees were led away.



"I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven at the bayonet point into stockades. And in the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward the west."

Private John G. Burnett
Captain Abraham McClellan's Company
2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry
Three groups left in the Summer, traveling from present-day Chattanooga by rail, boat and wagon, primarily on the Water Route. But river levels were too low for navigation. One group traveling overland in Arkansas, suffered three to five deaths each day due to illness and drought. Fifteen thousand captives still awaited removal. Crowding, poor sanitation and drought made them miserable. Many died. The Cherokee asked to postpone removal until the Fall and to voluntarily remove themselves. The delay was granted, provided they remain in internment camps until travel resumed.
By November 12, 1838, groups of 1,000 began the 800 mile overland march to the west. The last party, including Chief Ross, went by water. Now, heavy autumn rains and hundreds of wagons on the muddy route made roads impassable; little grazing and game could be found to supplement government rations. Two-thirds of the ill-equipped Cherokee were trapped between the ice-bound Ohio and Mississippi Rivers during January, 1839.

"The sick and feeble were carried in waggons-about as comfortable for traveling as a New England ox cart with a covering over it--a great many ride on horseback and multitudes go on foot--even aged females, apparently nearly ready to drop into the grave, were traveling with heavy burdens attached to the back--on the sometimes frozen ground, and sometimes muddy streets, with no covering for the feet except what nature had given them."

A Native of Maine Traveling in the Western Country
Although suffering from a cold, Quatie Ross, the wife of Chief John Ross, gave her only blanket to a child. Mrs. Ross became sick and died of pneumonia at Little Rock. A full blood survivor of the march remembered,


"Long time we travel on way to new land. People feel bad when they leave old nation. Women cry and make sad wails. Children cry and many men cry, and all look sad like when friends die, but they say nothing and just put heads down and keep on go towards West. Many days pass and people die very much. We bury close by Trail."

Another survivor told how his father got sick and died: then, his mother; then, one by one, his five brothers and sisters.


"One each day. Then all are gone."

By March 1839, all survivors had arrived in the West. No one knows how many died throughout the ordeal, but the trip was especially hard on infants, children and the elderly. Missionary doctor Elizur Butler, who accompanied the Cherokee, estimated that over 4,000 died--nearly a fifth of the Cherokee population.
In August 1839, John Ross was elected Principal Chief of the reconstituted Cherokee Nation. Tahlequah, in what is now the state of Oklahoma, was its capital. It remains tribal headquarters for the Cherokee Nation today. About 1,000 Cherokee in Tennessee and North Carolina escaped the roundup. They gained recognition in 1866, establishing their tribal government in 1868 in Cherokee, North Carolina. They are known as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Today, the Cherokee are the second largest Indian nation in the United States.


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The Trail of Tears through the
Southeast Missouri Region
Before the forced removal of the Cherokee was ordered by General Winfield Scott on May 23, 1838, several groups of Cherokee had already started voluntarily for Oklahoma. Late in 1837, a party numbering 365, with B. B. Cannon as conductor, left Tennessee and set out on what is now called the Northern Route, which passed through Missouri. During the forced removal in 1838, twelve of the thirteen detachments of Cherokee passed through Missouri, all but one entering the state in Cape Girardeau County.

That detachment, headed by John Benges, left Fort Payne. Alabama and traveled northwest through Tennessee and Kentucky. Crossing the Mississippi River in Mississippi County, the party continued northwest to Benton then north almost to Cape Girardeau before turning southwest and continuing through Bollinger County.


What do you think, did he make a diffrence?

Answer 2

Consider Jesus Christ. Some may be thinking, "Whatever, Jesus freak". But check out these historical quotes and you may find Jesus would be a very controversial, interesting topic whether you're a Christian or not.

The historian H. G. Wells said that a man’s greatness can be measured by ‘what he leaves to grow, and whether he started others to think along fresh lines with a vigor that persisted after him.’ Wells, although not claiming to be a Christian, acknowledged: “By this test Jesus stands first.”

Napoleon (is reported to have) said: “Jesus Christ has influenced and commanded His subjects without His visible bodily presence.”

Calendars are based on the year that Jesus was believed to have been born. “Dates before that year are listed as B.C., or before Christ,” explains The World Book Encyclopedia. “Dates after that year are listed as A.D., or anno Domini (in the year of our Lord).”

Answer 3

Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Oprah...um, Michael Jackson?....Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X......benjamin Franklin....plenty

Answer 4

Either Gandi or Martin Luther King or Nelson Mendella!

Answer 5

Helen Keller

Answer 6

Franklin D. Rooselvet

Answer 7

Abraham had made a big difference in the world, b/c still up to this point we are still fighting.

Answer 8

Jonas Salk. His oral polio vaccine made iron lungs and the fear of polio a thing of the past.

Answer 9

We each make a difference. It may not be a good one, but we all make some kind of difference.

Answer 10

Adam was one. So was Noah. They say Eve made a big difference, too.

Answer 11

Gandhi, Hitler(in a bad way), Kurt Cobain and etc.