Outline John Greenleaf Whittier's "Snow-Bound," A Little Boy Remembers Thesis Statement: John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "Snow-Bound" is a nostalgic poem about family life on the farm. ... "Snow-Bound," by John Greenleaf Whittier, is a nostalgic poem about family life on the farm. ... Whittier was raised on a farm that was far away from other people. ... In the beginning his poetry was about working on the farm. ... In "Snow-Bound," a family is isolated on a farm by a snow storm. ...

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Robert Newsom, like many other settlers of the west, came to Missouri between 1819 and 1822 in search of wealth and a better life for him and his family. "Robert had made his westward journey with his wife, whose name we do not know, and son Harry and daughter Virginia both of whom were born in Virginia." (2) The Newsom's settled in Callaway County by eighteen twenty two where Robert built his farm at. During the time that Robert Newsom and family settled there, Callaway County was gaining more and more farmers to its rich and fertile land. ... The eighteen fifty census showed that ty...

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Frederick Baily was born a slave in February 1818 on Holmes Hill Farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The farm was part of an estate owned by Aaron Anthony, who also managed the plantations of Edward Lloyd V, one of the wealthiest men in Maryland. ... Frederick bounced around being a farm hand in many places and he was very upset with it. ... At times he was treated like a part of a family but then he was again cast out as a slave. He got a taste of family life but at the end of the day he was always reminded that he was a slave with all the work he had done and how ...

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Mike works in the steel mills, and finds it hard to support his family and follow his ideals at the same time. ... Therefore, wages for unskilled labor were so low that a man working seven days a week, twelve hours a day could just earn enough to keep his family living. ... Some ex-slaves were awarded land, but had no tools to farm it. Therefore, they had to turn to furnishing merchants, who would give the ex-slaves farm animals, tools, and seeds. ... These people turned to sharecropping, through which they would receive a piece of land to farm, and all the tools to farm the land. ...

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During his first fifty years, Brown moved about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and taking along his ever-growing family. ... The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith, who donated tracts of at least 50 acres to black families willing to clear and farm the land. Brown, knowing that many of the families were finding life in this isolated area difficult, offered to establish his own farm there as well, in order to lead the blacks by his example and to act as a "kind father to them." ...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harriet wrote the book to awaken people to the horrors of slavery. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the best selling piece of American literature of all time. The book starts in Kentucky on the farm of Mr. Shelby. Mr. Shelby is a kind man who cares for his slav...

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This was especially helpful to farms in remote locations. ... It provided people with a time efficient way to travel to visit family and take trips. ... Now it would only take us a half-day the drive and we'd be back in time to take care of the farm. ...

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The woman slaves usually worked in the homes, cooking and cleaning, whereas the men were sent out into the plantations to farm. Slaves were of all ages and sexes so the young girls would usually help in the house also and young boys would help in the farm by bailing hay and loading wagons with crops. ... They worked fewer hours and had more privileges than did the field hands, but were more subject to the wishes of the owners families. ... If the slave disobeyed, the owner replied on punishment, such as lashings, short rations, and threats to sell members of the slave's family. ...

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Most settled into farms on the Great Plains where it was cheaper to farm because they didn't need fences, and the land was cheaper. Homestead Act - In 1862 the Homestead Act was passed, providing 160 acres of public land free to any adult citizen or head of family who had lived on the land for five years. ... When they came to America they were usually poor because they had came from poor counties, and were willing to work on American farms for very low wages. ... Samuel Gompers - Emigrated to New York with his family in 1863 he worked as a cigar maker and a union organizer. ...

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He is faced with having to provide a life for his family as a sharecropper. ... He is constantly trying to preserve himself and his family although one method that he at times chooses to use are illegal and wrong. ... An example to show his self-preservation would be when he moves his family to another farm to work, and thus removing himself and family from danger. ... He is trying to survive and live a life that was shown to him by his father, a life in which family comes before all others and above the law. ...

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Separation of marriages and families in slave trade, sexual abuse of slave women, and the harsh treatment of the slaves in the fields, were just a few ways that slaves were mistreated. ... Most farmers in the south had no more than the twenty slaves on there plantation, these farms were only about 150-200 acres large. The owners of these plantation were not of great wealth, they lived modest lives and provided for there family, man did not even live in very nice homes at all. There was about 10,000 families that owned anywhere from fifty to a hundred slaves that worked hundreds of acres of lan...

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Harriet Tubman was born in 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was one of 9 children born to Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green. Her actual name given to her by her parents was Aramita Ross and her nickname was Minty. Harriet Tubman was born a slave. Slavery is when you are forced to work for som...

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The Majority of Southerners owned smaller farms and "practiced subsistence farming, raising only enough food to feed their families" (Appleby 104). ... The agriculture was so great that "eighty percent of the labor force worked on the farm" (Pomaska 1). ...

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Many inner cities were separated by their own ethnic groups and where their families were. ... Whole families had to work for wages that were close to nothing just to make it in this new land. ... The women in most farmhouses mainly worked in the family households, and ran the dairy, vegetable, and poultry part of the farm. ... Life on the farm was very difficult in the closing of the frontier. Some survived and lived to pass their farm down from generation to generation. ...

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If the southern economy was based on farming and crops the move by many southerners to large farms and plantations was logical, the more crops you grow the more financially successful you are. ... The large farms owned by southerners needed many laborers to tend to their fields. ... Another way southern slave drivers used fear to make slaves work was by separating them from their families. ... One, it took them further away from their family as well as from the free north. ...

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There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. ... (Wood, pg.52) To ensure individual responsibility, the codes outlined apprenticeship and work regulations and the terms of contracts, marriages, and family relations. ... The laws were supposed to strengthen his sense of responsibility to both his family and his neighbors. ... "Racists found ways to circumvent the law and create other devices that made it difficult for the Freedman to vote or own farms of their own, devices such as Literacy tests, poll taxes, "grandfather clause", and eventual in...

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Slaves were used for hard labor out in the fields of farms and plantations to keep the southern economy progressing. ... Since slaves were the people that worked out in the fields on plantations and farms, they played a major role in the economy of the nation in the 1600s and 1700s. ... The comforts of raising their own families, going into whatever profession they choose, even eating whatever food they desire to eat. ...

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Frederick Bailey's life started in February 1818, he was born in Tuckahoe near Easton in Maryland.1 His mother was Harriet Baily, and Frederick Douglass describes his father as being white but he did not know him; however, there were rumors that Aaron Anthony was Douglass's father.2 Aaron Anthony was the man who owned the farm Douglass was born on.2 Frederick Douglass only saw his mother a handful of times in his life, mainly because that she hired out to Mr. ... This was a nice change of pace for Douglass because the Auld family treated him better as his only jobs were to run errand...

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But slavery was less profitable in the North, there economic activity centered on small farms and industries The southern plantation owners were not willing to follow in the north's footsteps because their income would decrease a considerable amount. ... The victims included the family of Joseph Travis, Turner's owner. ...

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They were nomadic herders and unlike the English, who farmed the land, they hunted for their food. Their large families "seemed to indicate a lack of self-control" which was the colonists" form of birth control. ... Little did they know that they had many common experiences with the black race: Practically every accusation that has been made against the American blacks was also made against the Irish: Their family life was inferior, they had no ambition, they did not keep up their homes, they drank too much, they were not responsible, they had no morals, it was not safe to walk thro...

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The York family scraped out a living on their modest farm and supplemented their table by hunting. ... The York family, 1900 In 1914, Alvin radically altered his life. ... The relief fund paid the IRS $100,000 and placed $30,000 in trust to be used in the family's best interest. ...

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Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln grew up working on farms with his father. At the time the Lincoln family did not have money for the children to go to school. Abraham was very interested in education and bettering himself. He would barrowed books from his ne...

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The battles only discouraged the Southern population as a whole because they took time away from the soldiers" families, farm time, and lives. Because they weren't able to stay home and support their families, thousands of wives and children experienced famine, especially as a result of Union barricades of Sou...

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Furthermore, these wars cause much suffering and devastation to millions of families. ... Children may want to continue to carry out their family legacy or perhaps join the military out of patriotism and even to experience something new. ... These children were abducted from their homes, separated from their families, even drugged and forcibly trained to fight (Shepler, 2005). ... Now finally, I am going back to see my family and work with my father on his farm." ... These women fought to live and did whatever they had to in order to maintain their homes and feed their families. ...

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Redeemers are also known as Bourbon Democrats as a reference to the Bourbon family of Spain. The Bourbon family was known for forgetting nothing and learning nothing, so the Redeemers were labeled as Bourbons for their attempts to bring Mississippi back to the way it was before the Civil War2. ... Cotton prices had dropped significantly, farms had been destroyed by Union troops during the war, and taxes had never been higher11. ...

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