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
• Approx Pages: 5

" 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

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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