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  • Jim Crow Laws Log Cabin
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    What is a homesteader? Well, a homesteader was a person like you or me. They were not cowboys like many people say. Homesteaders left their homes for a specific reason. These reasons are looked at on page 3. But no matter what their reason, the main thing is they were leaving their homes. They went on a very long and hard journey, and many did not make it to their destination. Homesteaders were people who left their homes. They were people like you or me, not cowboys like movies make them out to...
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  • Stand Trial Female Body
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    Ed Gein was born at the turn of the century into the small farming community of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Gein lived on his family homestead with a weak, ineffectual brother and domineering mother who taught him from an early age that sex was a sinful thing. Eddie ran the family's 160 -acre farm on the outskirts of Plainfield until his brother Henry died in 1944 and his mother in 1945. When she died her son was a thirty-nine-year-old bachelor, still emotionally enslaved to the woman who had tyranni...
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  • Act Was Passed Age Of 21
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    The Homestead Act of 1862 made surveyed lands obtainable to homesteaders. The act stated that men and women over the age of 21, unmarried women who were head of households and married men under the age of 21, who did not own over 160 acres of land anywhere, were citizens or intended on becoming citizens of the United States, were eligible to homestead. This paper will show how the Homestead Act came to be enacted, who the homesteaders were and the effects of the Homestead Act on the pioneers. II...
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  • Homestead Act Barbed Wire
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    ... ches. Others hired phony claimants or bought abandoned land. The General Land Office was under funded and unable to hire a sufficient number of investigators for its widely scattered local offices. As a result, overworked and underpaid investigators were often susceptible to bribery. Of some 500 million acres dispersed by the General Land Office between 1862 and 1904, only 80 million acres went to homesteaders. Small farmers acquired more land under the Homestead Act in the 20 th century tha...
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  • Gap Between Rich Rich And Poor
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    ... ike's. These strikers sought not to run the entrepreneur out of business, but merely to protect what they had, which was very little. Unions were firstly formed in order to reassure laborers that they would have some protection to fall back on. The unions agreed only to strike when threatened. The logic behind this was that if an entrepreneur had such disregard for his laborers, perhaps a strike would help to wake him up. The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was an impeccable example of th...
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  • Andrew Carnegie Cut Costs
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    Andrew Carnegie was born into a poor working class family living in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1835. His father operated a small hand looming business located in the family home. The Carnegie's was literate, well read, and active in the politics of the day. It was a time of repression of the Scottish worker by the Government, the employers, and the culture. Rebellious in thought as well as actively participating in protests was part of the Carnegie family life style. He was exposed to...
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  • Yellen States 'the Carnegie ' Frick
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    ... f Amalgamated tyranny (they could not be trained for and moved into better jobs) as they were of Frick's [Carnegie's manager] hard labor policies. The unskilled lived wretchedly... where houses had no running water and no sanitation facilities. The 12 hour day (and Frick's speed-up) led to fatigue... the newcomers did not like the older immigrants, but they liked Frick less-and they went out on strike when the Amalgamated Association did (Baker 115). Frick had been moved into Carnegie's posi...
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  • Andrew Carnegie Working Class
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    ... Swetnam says, '... He never explained how a man working eighty-four hours a week at fourteen cents an hour could find 'spare hours' or material for such study' (96). 'The claim that he still thought as a working man was false' (Baker 89). Carnegie amply rewarded his young partners but only after he had squeezed out every bit of their ability to produce. The skilled laborers, of English, Irish, and Scottish descent, were valued and rewarded, but he had no respect for the easily replaced immig...
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  • Gross National Product Sugar Cane
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    Hilda Beemer was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), into a family of Viennese Jewish immigrants. She grew up in Johannesburg and went to Witwatersrand University for her undergraduate studies. She received there the B. A. degree in anthropology. In 1932, she came to London, where she studied under the charismatic teacher Bronislaw Malinowski at the London School of Economics, where she obtained the M. A. and Ph. D. degrees in social anthropology. In 1934, she was awarded a grant by the ...
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  • Personal Property Texas Law
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    BANKRUPTCY Basically, the Texas law protects the creditors property from being seized and that is legal in Texas law. No creditor can reach certain kinds of ones property. Although the laws of the states vary widely, ones real property or part of it may be exempt from execution, that is, it cannot be sold to satisfy your creditors. One creditor may be willing to simply reduce the debt. His agreement does not bind him. It is the right of Texas to protect its homestead. In fact, that encourages in...
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  • Silicon Valley Asian Pacific
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    Cupertino (Homestead High) &# 038; Baldwin Park (Baldwin Hills) For our community profile presentation, we investigated Homestead High School in Cupertino, and Baldwin Park High School in Baldwin Hills, California. Cupertino is located about 40 miles south of San Francisco, and roughly 10 miles north of San Jose, in the Northern California Bay Area. Cupertino is nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, and has experienced an income boom among working professionals in the last decade and a half, d...
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  • Manifest Destiny Homestead Act
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    Development Of The West Beyond The Mississippi The years 1840 to 1890 were a period of great growth for the United States. It was during this time period that the United states came to the conclusion that it had a manifest destiny, that is, it was commanded by god to someday occupy the entire North American continent. One of the most ardent followers of this belief was President James K. Polk. He felt that the United States had the right to whatever amount of territory it chose to, and in doing ...
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  • Pacific Railroad Homestead Act
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    The Domestication of the Last Frontier In 1865 the frontier line generally followed the western limits of the states bordering the Mississippi River, bulging outward to include the eastern sections of Kansas and Nebraska. Beyond this thin edge of pioneer farms, lay the prairie and sagebrush lands that stretched to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Then, for nearly 1, 600 kilometers, loomed the huge bulk of mountain ranges, many rich in silver, gold and other metals. On the far side, plains a...
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  • Twentieth Century Homestead Act
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    US History Essay Chapter 20 Nineteenth century and early twentieth century United States expansionism was in many ways a continuation of past expansionism. Greed for land, power, and money motivated the expansions of the US. Whenever the US annexed, acquired, bought, or simply took more land, it benefited them greatly. The rewards being, more farming land, more power, and sometimes gold and riches. However, the actions US took to attain the land they thought they so desperately needed, were barb...
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  • Attempt To Show University Of Nebraska
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    My Antonia is a book about realism of the late 19 th and early 20 th century. The Websters Dictionary defines Realism as Picturing and seeing people and things as they really are. That is what this book does; it shows people as they really are. It does not glamorize what pioneer life was like. It tells us the hardships that these people dealt with, and gives us the sense of the meaning of family and friendship they had. Because without friends and family sticking together as a whole then, they c...
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  • Attempt To Show University Of Nebraska
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    through the hard times alone. In my paper on My Antonia, I will attempt to show the symbolism and meaning of the main characters of the novel. I will also attempt to show the meaning andrew. I will attempt to show the theme and how this time era is different from what we arriving The two main characters in this novel are Jim Burden and Antonia Shermerda. They are the symbolic level of this novel. Jim lost both of his parents in Virginia and has come to live in a whole new world on his grandfathe...
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  • 19 Th Century Hours A Week
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    As urban industrial workers expanded in the 19 th century, industry and the industrial work force boomed as well. Workers, however, were met with difficult situations that ultimately led to violent outbursts. Low wages could not buy food and clothes at the same time and conditions in the work place brought about countless deaths and injuries. Growing number of immigrants caused the reduction of wages and insecurity of the workers caused unemployment. There were hostilities between workers, emplo...
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  • Number Of People Mother
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    The Swazi of Swaziland Introduction Swazi? s are said to belong to the Nguni people who lived in central Africa and migrated to southern Africa. They speak the Siswati language, a language earlier spoken by the Nguni group of the Bantu family. They seem to have settle in Swaziland around five hundred years ago. They were then ruled by the British from the mid 19 th century to mid 20 th century. Swaziland is a monarchy and is ruled by King Swazi III. Social Organization The social organization in...
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