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  • old by Governor Harrison to place his faith in the good intentions of the United States, Tecumseh offers a bitter retort.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      A retort is a response. 
  • revitalize their societies so that they can regain life as a unified people and put an end to legalized land grabs.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      Revitalize.. .To bring back to life What does it mean to  regain life as a unified people? 
  • You wish to prevent the Indians from doing as we wish them
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      You wish... Tecumseh is talking to Governor Harrison. 
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  • unite and let them consider their lands as the common property of the whole.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      This is showing what Tecumseh wants to happen. 
  • ou take the tribes aside and advise them not to come into this measure.... You want by your distinctions of Indian tribes, in allotting to each a particular, to make them war with each other.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      What strategy is the United States taking to gain the tribes land? 
  • ou are continually driving the red people, when at last you will drive them onto the great lake
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      What is happening to the tribes? What choices do they have?
  • endeavored
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      Endeavored: Work to do something. 
  • this land that was sold, and the goods that was given for it, was only done by a few.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      Who are the people selling the land? What is the problem with this? 
  • If you continue to purchase them, it will make war among the different tribes,
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      Why will the tribes fight amongst each other? 
  • If you will not give up the land and do cross the boundary of our present settlement, it will be very hard, and produce great trouble between us.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      What is Tecumseh asking Governor Harrison to do? 
  • the only way to stop this evil is for the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land,
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      How will the tribes (red men) make improve their lives? 
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America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War - 0 views

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      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      Devising is another word for creating.. to come up with.. The boys devised a plan to see the  movie despite the fact that they had no money for tickets. 
  • most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      Think about the importance of labor in the South. Without labor, what will happen? 
  • economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War.
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      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      The whole Southern economy must have been struggling. Any country that fights a war and loses will be hurt financially. 
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  • Accustomed
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      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      I think I understand this
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      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      This is another word for .. used to...  I am accustomed to eating three meals a day. 
  • autonomy
    • adler71
      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      Autonomy is another word for independence. 
  • federal government's decision not to redistribute land in the South, meant that only a small percentage of the freedpeople became landowners.
  • reluctance
    • adler71
      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      Relucatance.. When you do not want to do something. 
  • Most rented land or worked for wages on white-owned plantations.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      This was called sharecropping. What did we learn about this in Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry? 
  • many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production,
  • major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      People would be angry! 
    • adler71
      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      How do you think this might change people's feelings? 
  • new systems of labor slowly emerged to take the place of slavery
  • A cycle of debt often ensued, and year by year the promise of economic independence faded.
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      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      No because there will always be people who are in need financially. 
    • adler71
      adler71 on 07 Jan 14
       
      People are struggling financially. If people are not independent then they are dependent.  Is this a problem? Why or why not? 
  • adler71 on 07 Jan 14
     
    This is an overview of Reconstruction. Read to increase your vocabulary and learn about the changes that developed after the Civil War. 
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  • Altogether, over 600 African Americans served as legislators in Reconstruction governments (though blacks comprised a majority only in the lower house of South Carolina's legislature).
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      adler71 on 06 Jan 14
       
      Extravagance is when a lot of money is spent. 
  • The Reconstruction governments drew up democratic state constitutions, expanded women's rights, provided debt relief, and established the South's first state-funded schools
    • adler71
      adler71 on 06 Jan 14
       
      What kind of changes occurred during Reconstruction?  
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  • damned for their extravagance
  • Meanwhile, the first institutions of higher education for blacks were established in the South. Black colleges founded during Reconstruction included Fisk University in Nashville in 1866, Howard University in Washington in 1867, and Virginia's Hampton Institute in 1868.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 06 Jan 14
       
      This shows steps forward. I know that many of these schools/colleges are still around today. 
  • Nevertheless, the nation's first integrated governments had many substantial achievements.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 06 Jan 14
       
      What is the main idea... although there was corruption around this time, there were many positive changes that occurred in the South under Reconstruction. 
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  • The Black Codes, a series of laws passed by Southern states to define freedman's rights and responsibilities, imposed serious restrictions upon former slaves.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 04 Jan 14
       
      What does this make you think? 
  • The Black Codes created an uproar among many Northerners, who considered them to be another form of slavery.
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      adler71 on 04 Jan 14
       
      What does this tell you about people in the North? Are there any words or ideas that you do not understand? 
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