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Late 19 Th Century Roman Catholic
1,899 wordsAfrikaans and English are the official languages. Afrikaans, derived from Dutch, is the mother tongue of the Afrikaners and the principal language of the Coloreds. More Afrikaners are bilingual than English-speakers. Most urban blacks speak English and Afrikaans in addition to their native language. The Bantu languages are not mutually intelligible. Many blacks speak Fanakalo, a lingua franca that developed among black workers in the mines. The politically influential Dutch Reformed church, whic...
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U S Political Million Members
1,201 wordsIn spite of their remarkable progress, 19 th-century American farmers experienced recurring periods of hardship. Several basic factors were involved -- soil exhaustion, the vagaries of nature, a decline in self-sufficiency, and the lack of adequate legislative protection and aid. Perhaps most important, however, was over-production. Along with the mechanical improvements which greatly increased yield per hectare, the amount of land under cultivation grew rapidly throughout the second half of the...
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20 Th Century Religious Organizations
2,483 wordsReligions Nowadays the hopes for spiritual rebirth, consolidation of ideas and world nations, and mental renewal of the world community are closely interrelated with the processes referred to as religion revival. At the same time, world nations pin their hopes and social expectations on rebirth of traditional culture-forming religions, such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and some others. On the one hand, such expectations seem to be well-grounded and justified. There is an opinion that nation...
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U S Political Million Members
1,196 wordsThe World of the Farmer In spite of their remarkable progress, 19 th-century American farmers experienced recurring periods of hardship. Several basic factors were involved soil exhaustion, the vagaries of nature, a decline in self-sufficiency, and the lack of adequate legislative protection and aid. Perhaps most important, however, was over-production. Along with the mechanical improvements which greatly increased yield per hectare, the amount of land under cultivation grew rapidly throughout t...
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William Jennings Bryan Quot And Quot
1,528 wordsIn Farmers Alliance Farmers Alliance In the 1880 s, as drought hit the wheat-growing areas of the Great Plains and prices for Southern cotton sunk to new lows, many tenant farmers fell into deep debt. This exacerbated long-held grievances against railroads, lenders, grain-elevator owners, and others with whom farmers did business. By the early 1890 s, as the depression worsened, some industrial workers shared these farm families views on labor and the trusts. By the end of the 1880 s, farmers ha...
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Ku Klux Klan Roman Catholics
1,067 wordsShown Slivkoff The Ku Klux Klan The KU KLUX KLAN is a group of white secret societies who oppose the advancement of blacks, Jews, Gays and other Minority groups. The Ku KLux Klan also known as the KKK or the Klan, Is active in The United States of America and Canada. It often uses violence to achieve its goal in society. The KKK members wear robes and hoods, and burn crosses at their outdoor meetings. They will also burn crosses to scare non-members. The KKK was formed as a social club by a grou...
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Ku Klux Klan Nation Wide
506 wordsTo define an organization of the Ku Klux Klan is an enigma of many historians. Most historians either take the side of the Ku Klux Klan (a. k. a. the KKK) or as most show how hateful and immoral the KKK were. One is not saying these ideas are wrong or right but both should be heard for one to determine the truth of what the KKK really was and really stood for. Behind the Mask of Chivalry describes how and why the Ku Klux Klan rose in popularity in the 1920 s through campaigns over issues perceiv...
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