nah i'm not going down into butterfly effect-esque bullstuff. obviously everything that has happened has some small effect. someone who died could've had a long family tree that extended into a bunch more and caused a bunch of people and and and. there is nothing here that you can look back at and say "oh yep there it is, that's what changed. that caused it." andrew jackson pushed slaves west, some died. harriet tubman saved some slaves. big whoop. it doesn't affect us in the long run.
what? we're still dealing with the implications of indian genocide and the trail of tears as a whole. essentially, the trail of tears prompted the construction of more reservations and a lingering animosity in the american indian population, which would surface in the various conflicts between indians and settlers that would later come, including the wounded knee incident of 1973 (unsure of the exact date).
in addition, the indians in the area took the US government to the supreme court and (if i remember correctly) won. andrew jackson overrode the court's discussion, which prompted a discussion on the power of the president and the position of native americans as citizens. both of these would resurface throughout us history, continuing to the debates and conflicts over presidential power today.
this stuff SURE AS forget effects us in the long run.
Hey how about you both are being idiots and we can be done with this?
