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taxes. And 2. white Southerners could not accept African-Americans exercising basic civil rights, holding office, or voting. So for many, the best way to return things to the way they were before reconstruction, was through violence. Especially after 1867, most of the violence toward African-Americans in the South was politically motivated. The worst act of violence was probably the massacre at Colfax, Louisiana, where hundreds of former slaves were murdered. Between intimidation and…

The first example of their organization was the National Grange, which was founded by farmers in 1867 and aimed to reform economic and political policies to push the well being of farm families. More local examples were the Farmers’ Association, which consisted of community stores that kept the tools and farming equipment at a reasonable price, and…

Before the Maritime provinces entered the Confederation, Canada’s first factories for shipbuilding, glass, and clothing enterprises, were successfully operating in Nova Scotia. After moving these factories into Ontario and Quebec, in 1867, there was a deindustrialization in the Maritimes. Due to the easy access of the U.S. market, the increasing population, and the railway that connects eastern Canada with western Canada, regions in Ontario and Quebec, mainly around Montreal and Toronto…

pace of national economy. Finally, Meiji emperor decides to restore power in Japan. This caused the peasants to stop rising and the prevailing problems to be solved. However, this also caused the economic growth and making the last shogun to end in 1867 and making Tokugawa period to end in May 3rd 1868. Trade will always be known for its decrease in the…

principle traverse of 487.4 m and was the main steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was initially called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and the East River Bridge, yet it was later named the Brooklyn Bridge, a name originating from a prior 1867, letter to the supervisor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since opening, it has turned into a symbol of New York City and was assigned a National Historic Landmark in 1964. Construction of the…

Orleans City Railroad 1899-1902 Magazine Street Railroad Company 1866 Crescent City Railroad Company 1866-1892 New Orleans Traction Company 1892-1902 St. Charles Street Railroad Company 1866-1904 Canal and Claiborne Streets Railroad Company 1867-1899 absorbed by the NO&CRy New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company 1899-1902 Orleans Railroad Company 1868-1902 World’s Fair Railway 1884-1885 New Orleans Railways Company 1902-1905 New Orleans Railway and Light Company…

problems that cause hair loss. She made her start when she started experimenting with different hair products, she eventually created a formula that created a smooth, shiny coiffure for African American women. Madam C.J. Walker was born on December 23, 1867, she was born under the name of Sarah Breedlove on the same cotton plant that her parents had been enslaved at before the Civil War. At her age of fourteen she was married to escape her abusive brother in law, at the age of twenty she was…

Name : Tutor: Course: Date: Homesteading Three major philosophies led to the homesteading in the United States of America. Three theories can be used to explain why homesteading took place in the United States. “Economic Determinism”, was put across by Frederick Turner. ”. It identified aspects of social progress that resulted in economic success of a country. Social progress was to be achieved through trade, ranching, intensive farming and agriculture. Most of the named aspects directly…

After six weeks of fighting with many casualties on both sides, the then governor of Minnesota, Henry Sibley led a final onslaught against the Dakota Indians. The Dakota warriors were subdued and captured; about three hundred and three Sioux warriors were tried and sentenced to murder for their involvement in the war. Out of the number, thirty-eight of the warriors were publicly executed on December 29, 1962; the rest was commuted to various life sentences by Abraham Lincoln, who was the…

some of the most popular innovators in the world because of them we could get places a lot faster now instead of driving or walking we can fly. The Wright brothers were innovative. Wilbur Wright was born in Millville,Indiana in the year 1867. Orville Wright was born in Dayton,Ohio in the year of 1871. They helped their father edit the journal called the Religious Telescope .Later they ran a paper of their own called west side news. Then in 1892, the brothers opened the…