One of the biggest land problems they were faced with was set in Texas. ... Seeing this situation the Cherokee decided to fight for their land. ... The fighting started and by sundown it is said that there were 18 natives dead and 3 Texans that were killed. ... The Cherokee nation was treated very unfairly when it came to their land rights in Texas. Even though they were there first they got stepped on and were not able to keep their land. ...

• Word Count: 1175
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The entire economy of the South had gone almost dead. ... It provided relief, gave out land, organized schools, helped make labor contracts, and generally tried to help blacks and whites live together in peace. ... Since blacks did not own land, they became wage workers under their former masters immediately following the Civil War. ... 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. ... One option was to seize land from the wealthiest Southern plan...

• Word Count: 1368
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" The concept created by the Puritans that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" in reference to the ones Natives were not "saved" peaked during the late nineteenth century with a "nearly genocidal assault on Native American civilization (Olson & Wilson, 1986). In addition to missionaries forcing religions onto the Native populations, ranchers would often encroach on land reserved for Native American use. For example, in 1867 a treaty gave joint reservation land of nearly three million acres to the Kowas, Comanches, and Kiowa-Apaches. This treaty closed the land...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Before several Womens Rights movements women were not allowed to vote, had to submit to laws that they had no voice in forming, married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law, married women had no property rights, husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity, divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women, women had to pay property taxes although they had no representation in the levying of these taxes, most occupations were closed to women and when women did work they were paid...

• Word Count: 693
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The white farmers are exhausted and angry: their sons are dead, they were killed in the war, and their life savings are gone. They have no money to hire workers or buy equipment and seeds, and most of the black farmers have no land. ...

• Word Count: 639
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

• That the laws of the land should always be upheld. ... The ex-slaves, however, saw these acts and thought that they were the ghosts of the dead Confederates. ... They wanted their freedom and their land restored and it was....

• Word Count: 1063
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

We have been taught since elementary school that the pilgrims journeyed away from Europe to escape from the oppression of the British king to be free in the new land of the Americas. ... What right did we have to take that land, when it was owned by several Native American tribes whom travelers, hunters, and journalists transformed from human beings with various cultures into savages all because of the different ways they lived, their speech, their styles of clothing, and probably more so, their skin color. ... Their race has been almost wiped away into extinction, because it was either move i...

• Word Count: 1871
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Once his service time ran out he bought land in the New Orleans bayou that was dense with lumber. ... People were so excited to secure a "souvenir" that they were nearly fighting over the ashes of the dead man. ...

• Word Count: 2362
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The 20th Century News July 4th, 1929 What Goes Up Must Come Down???? With the end of the Civil War our nation faced a new way of life. With new found freedom minorities began to fight for more rights and rightly so; sadly they came to many dead ends. The control given to the government was s...

• Word Count: 2136
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In another case, a local Catholic church here in Lafayette will not allow the unfurling of any Confederate flag on its grounds when honoring the Confederate dead that are buried in its cemetery. ... Never mind that the family of General Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, a Confederate general and Louisiana native, donated all the land the church now rests upon. ...

• Word Count: 1754
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

No longer could wealthy landowners own slaves to work their land and act as servants; neither could the wealthy survive among the elite solely because of their family name. ... Later, when Miss Emily is approached by city authorities about her taxes, she still holds on to her past and refers them to Colonel Sartoris, even though he "had been dead almost ten years" (533). ...

• Word Count: 1554
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The Ku Klux Klan set out the primary targets of their terrorism as being "any blacks [that] challenged white supremacy by daring to vote, teach, or acquire land, and carpetbaggers, white Northerners who came to the South after the war to seek their fortunes or to assume office in the Reconstruction state governments. ... Sims was pronounced dead at the scene and though many said Sims was a peaceful man, authorities believed the murder was committed because of Sims frequently stating, "he would never vote a Democratic ticket. ...

• Word Count: 2591
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Almost as many as the combined dead of all other wars from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War (Boritt 634)". ... The sectional division between the north and south began in Colonial times and resulted from the geographical differences of the land. ...

• Word Count: 3329
• Approx Pages: 13