old by Governor Harrison to place his faith in the good intentions of the United States, Tecumseh offers a bitter retort.
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revitalize their societies so that they can regain life as a unified people and put an end to legalized land grabs.
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Revitalize.. .To bring back to life What does it mean to regain life as a unified people?
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You wish to prevent the Indians from doing as we wish them
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unite and let them consider their lands as the common property of the whole.
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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.
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ou are continually driving the red people, when at last you will drive them onto the great lake
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this land that was sold, and the goods that was given for it, was only done by a few.
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If you continue to purchase them, it will make war among the different tribes,
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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.
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the only way to stop this evil is for the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land,
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America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War - 0 views
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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.
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most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery.
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Think about the importance of labor in the South. Without labor, what will happen?
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economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War.
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The whole Southern economy must have been struggling. Any country that fights a war and loses will be hurt financially.
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federal government's decision not to redistribute land in the South, meant that only a small percentage of the freedpeople became landowners.
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reluctance
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Most rented land or worked for wages on white-owned plantations.
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This was called sharecropping. What did we learn about this in Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry?
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many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production,
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major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families.
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new systems of labor slowly emerged to take the place of slavery
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A cycle of debt often ensued, and year by year the promise of economic independence faded.
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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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The Reconstruction governments drew up democratic state constitutions, expanded women's rights, provided debt relief, and established the South's first state-funded schools
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damned for their extravagance
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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.
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This shows steps forward. I know that many of these schools/colleges are still around today.
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Nevertheless, the nation's first integrated governments had many substantial achievements.
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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.
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The Black Codes created an uproar among many Northerners, who considered them to be another form of slavery.
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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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