19th century U.S. territorial expansion and was used to justify the forced removal of Native America and other groups from their homes. The rapid expansion of the United States intensified the issue of slavery as new states were added to the Union, leading to the outbreak of the Civil War.
The term "Trail of Tears" refers to the difficult journeys that the Five Civilized Tribes took during their forced removal from the southeast during the 1830s and 1840s. The Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole were all marched out of their ancestral lands to Indian Territory, or present Oklahoma.
The symbolic meaning is wolves in the law of the wolves. Basically criminals, the wolves in this context is used to describe lawless group of people that would not bow dow to societal rules.
According to the
census of 1790, there were about seven hundred thousand slaves of African
ancestry lived in the colonies, (precisely 694,280) with the most living in the state of Virginia where <span>292,627 enslaved Africans were counted. Although
there had been some skepticism about the counting that it might be undercounted. </span>
Confucianism is the cornerstone of traditional Chinese culture as well as a complete ideological system created by Confucius, based on the traditional culture of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It has dominated a feudal society that in essence has lasted 2000 years and for that reason its influence over the history, social structure and the people of China cannot be overlooked.<span>He has proved to be the greatest influence over the Chinese character. Besides being a great educationist, thinker and unsuccessful politician, he was first of all an intellect with a noble morality. He pursued truth, kindness and perfection throughout his life and his success and failure were largely due to his character, which had an everlasting impact on Chinese intellect.</span>