... back as 1988, the government has settled claims with Japanese-Americans as well as almost 20,000 black farmers for their sufferings in the past. The idea of reparations has become a growing concern for government officials. One major injustice discussed is the hope for "forty acres and a mule". Apparently, this was promised and given out to many blacks only to be stripped away shortly ... thereafter. Therefore, many of these people were freed with nothing to survive. There are many mixed attitudes in the case for reparations between whites and blacks ranging ... did. Sure, slavery was ...

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... not even given a mere apology to African Americans. Blacks were just freed and the American government thought everything was all right. Advocates for slavery reparations say their cause wouldn't be necessary if the United States government would have followed through on their promise and legislation of the ... because they did not do the work, but if the United States owes it to them because they never gave the slaves their promised forty acres and a mule. "It's not just the recently freed slaves who were harmed, who were discriminated against, who were economically disenfranchised, but ...

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... , Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas - rejoined the Union in 1868. (Gillon, Matson). The next problem the Radical Republicans faced in their plans for reconstruction was the redistribution of land in the South. Radical leaders such as Thaddeus Stevens realized that blacks would have little hope in achieving economic ... their own. In 1866, Republicans tried to address this problem by passing the Southern Homestead Act. This measure set aside 44 million acres of land for freedmen and loyal whites. This was ultimately a failure, however, because most freedmen and many whites lacked the resourc...

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... presidential plan . Southern voters elected mostly ex-Confederates and wealthy Southern Democrats to Congress. Blacks were denied ordinary citizenship rights. They weren't allowed to vote, and there were no needs for their education and economic protection. The South thought that Reconstruction was complete, but the Radical Republicans, would not let being cheated out of what they had won. Blacks were being ... persecuted in the South, and Northerners had become sympathetic because of incidents where blacks were harassed. Also, Republicans believed that the replacement of black males wo...

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... unfavorable because it restricted trade and hurt the economy so much. It was also an example of a successful decision because it was the catalyst for American manufacturing. Andrew Jackson's presidency was a fiasco because he indirectly killed 3,000 Indians, destroyed the national bank and the American System, and ... against the Creeks in Georgia and Alabama and the Seminoles in Florida. These campaigns ended in the transfer of hundreds of thousands of acres of land from the Indian nation to the whites in those areas. When he became president, he made an extremely controversial decision...

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... one of my topics but very necessary to the future of our nation. The Pacific Railroad Act gave railroad companies ten square miles of land for every mile of railroad that was completed. Congress passed this act in efforts to spur the economy in the midwest and western United States. During ... the United States. An example of this is a railroad company would lease or sell the excess land to businesses and farmers to create demand for transportation of goods and grain. To motivate new settlers, railroad companies would even give free one way travel from the eastern United States to the .....

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... is no big surprise considering he is a democrat from the South. During this time " Southerners began to think that by standing up for themselves they-not victorious Northerners-would shape the transition from slavery to freedom"(The American Promise 394). The Southerners did just that, they ... To help speed up the economy in the South, many plantation owners form sharecropping, which gave freedmen land in their plantation in exchange for work. This system helped give the freedmen better moral, which ultimately increased production. The North backs away from Reconstruction around 1870, ...

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... . He became depressed and began to drink a lot. His colonel asked for his resignation. Grant had to borrow money from a friend to return home in l854. After he returned home Julia's father gave them 80 acres to farm. They named the place Hardscrabble. He liked farming, but he ... Donelson the Confederate General Simon B. Buckner, one of Grants West Point classmates and the man who had loaned him money to rejoin his family, asked for a truce. Grant's answer became famous. "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your ... ...

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... were taken from the only place they knew. Their families, the language, and a different culture, had to be learned. Blacks were promised 40 acres and a mule after slavery, but that was not given. Why should the government make a promise that it does not keep? Why should the ... States; therefore all black descendants of slaves should be compensated. (Virginiabusiness). When slavery was abolished in 1865, thousands of white union soldiers died fighting for the abolition of slavery. Should the descendants of the soldiers who fought to end slavery, many of whom were injured, maimed or kill...

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... were taken from the only place they knew. Their families, the language, and a different culture, had to be learned. Blacks were promised 40 acres and a mule after slavery, but that was not given. Why should the government make a promise that it does not keep? Why should the ... States; therefore all black descendants of slaves should be compensated. (Virginiabusiness). When slavery was abolished in 1865, thousands of white union soldiers died fighting for the abolition of slavery. Should the descendants of the soldiers who fought to end slavery, many of whom were injured, maimed or kill...

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... 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 to all non-Native Americans; however the Texas ranchers driving their ... herds north to Kansas would look with envy to graze their cattle on that land. Although the Native American police had the authority to fine the ranchers for grazing ...

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... County later in the month of March. They settled there along the north side of the Sangamon River. Here they built a log cabin, fenced ten acres of ground, and raised a crop of corn all in the first year (The History Place). During the winter, Abe, and his stepbrothers, John Johnston ... the Union accused her of treason. After Abraham's death, Mary's next seventeen years held nothing but sorrow. She and her son Tad traveled abroad looking for health, but were tortured by their financial situation. After Tad's death in 1871, Mary slipped into a world of illusion (Askjeeves.com). Mary passe...

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