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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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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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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Under this system, former plantation owners subdivided their land into farms of 30 to 50 acres and leased them to workers. The tenants were given seed, fertilizer, farm tools, and food and clothing to take care of their families and grow a cash crop such as cotton. ...

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She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and her father was a Congregational minister in a society that held its clergy in highest regard. ... While remaining in the domestic sphere she struggled with wartime shortages and inflation, ran a farm with least of help and educated her four children when their formal education was interrupted. ... Mary Todd, like Abigail Adams came from a distinguished family of pioneer settlers of Kentucky and belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with exuberant social life and a firm private education. ... (...

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In Andover, healthy farm animals perish for no apparent reason, families die from smallpox, diabolical and inhumane crimes are committed, and other natural events that the Puritan society considered to be supernatural. ... Of course, slavery was still unethical, but it creates room for a debate with a side that says that a lot of positive culture and family relations were created due to slavery and the natural cycle of day and night. ...

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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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Blacks saw education as the only true route to freedom, so blacks were eager to learn how to read and write, a skill exclusive only to rich white families before the war, but there were still more issues to be faced. ... Under sharecropping, blacks would farm on a small plot of land leased by a planter, pledging a certain amount of crops to the landlord before each season as payment for the usage of the land. ...

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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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Kentucky's Neutrality in the Civil War As the Civil War became a reality, Kentucky was divided both politically and geographically in the division of the north and south. Kentucky had strong ties to both through blood and economic factors. They initially chose to remain in the union but to adopt...

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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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