...of America had been there for thousands of years before the Europeans had arrived. Money was not an issue for these groups of people. They relied on the land and trade between the different tribes. The economy consisted of hunting, gathering and a complex agriculture system. They did not have the need for the money like the outside European world did. They relied on each other and the tribes around them. Different tribes were able to specialize in certain areas and then they could trade what they needed. While they did not have the sophisticated economy like the Europeans had, they were doing much better than after the Europeans arrived and started to try to change their way of life. Thomas Morton stated “, that the natives of the land lived so poorly in so rich a Country.” 1 There were so many things that the Native Americans did that Morton could not believe they did because all the travelers saw was vast land that could be sorted through. The Natives knew how to utilize the land and did not need 1. Eric Foner, Voices of Freedom (New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), 6. to keep moving west to live. Another point in Native American culture that was strange to the Europeans, was how they dealt with the land. The land was not owned by anyone but used as a tribe for a season and...
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...Why did these changes occur? Before the 18th century, small business created their products by hand. They expanded the sale of their products by trade. Slaves were consistently used for all types of labor. One of the biggest areas of production where the utilization of slave occurred was the production of cotton. Plantation crops and the slavery system went through some drastic changes. To understand these changes, one must understand Slavery, inflation of crops and the industrial revolution. Slavery was very harsh the 18th century. Many families dealt with separation during this time, but luckily many remained married. Slaves lived in small shacks and provided food that was relatively cheap to the plantation owner. Slaves were forced to work, and when they didn’t work, they were beaten, starved or hung. In Virginia, 440,000 African Americans were taken from their homes (A 355). Millions of African Americans from all over the world were forced into...
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...blacksmith named John Deere. Farmers were not able to use the old style plow which was made of cast iron and was used more commonly in the eastern states. John Deere decided to make steel plows because the cast iron plows would easily break due to the soil being rich and thick in the Great Plains. Farmers were now spending more time harvesting land instead of fixing the cast iron plows. The steel plow had a wooden handle and was attached to a horse. The plow would dig the soil and turn it over in preparation for planting crops (Burns, 2012). Farming consists of extremely difficult and tedious labor. One example of this involves picking cotton seeds out of cotton. Laborers would spend a whole day picking seeds out of cotton plant and only produce around one pound of cotton per day. That all changed in 1793, when Eli Whitney built the first cotton gin machine. The machine was made up of rows of close set...
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...1. Northwest Ordinances This topic took place from 1784 to 1787 seeking for outlining how territories would be organized and new states created. To be recognized as territory or state, basic rights, public education, and forbid slavery should be guaranteed. In addition, if a territory has more than 60,000 people, they can become a state, which means that they could vote for senators, president, and get more benefits and tax return with the federal government. This occurred when the different colonies or states wanted to get more power and political representation in the congress, and trying to decrease slavery. 2. Articles of Confederation Approved on November 15, 1777, the Articles of Confederation were created in the national government...
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...Previous slaves got the privileges of citizenship & the "equivalent assurance" of the establishment in the fourteenth change (1868) and the right to choose in the fifteenth (1870), yet the procurements of the Constitution were frequently overlooked or damaged, and it was troublesome for previous slaves to pick up a toehold in the ‘post-war’ financial system on account of prohibitive dark codes and backward contractual plans, for example,...
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...Justin Bain AGB 430 Term Paper December 2, 2013 Cotton’s Hedging and Futures 1. Introduction a. History of the cotton market The history of the cotton market here in N.C did not really get big until the mid-1990’s when farmers figured out they could get a better yield with cotton based upon the climate and soil types here in N.C. So the grain production fell off as people started growing cotton and liked how the market was set upon compared to the grain market when it is ever changing and hard to set a high price and never know when the grain is going to go up or down. Now in 2013 here in N.C there is still a lot of cotton acres but not as many as ten years ago based upon the widely uses of grain now and the price which has hurt the cotton market but has also keep competitive with other markets like soybeans or corn. Also farming has changed a lot to with most farmers going more and more acres which year and expanding their operation to become more diverse and be able to play into different agricultural markets. The cotton market has to keep a bare minimal to be able to get growers to grow enough acres to be able to support the textile mills. This is where most of the virtual marketing comes into play. Marketing is very important to a farmers and his operation because that depends of the amount of profit he is going to make that year and also how much input he is going to put into that crop to make it the best it can be. Now days it is hard because of the price of fuels...
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...Mississippi ratifies 13th amendment abolishing slavery ... 147 years late Academics prompt ratification after noticing that 1995 move to accept amendment detailed in Lincoln had not been completed * Share77 * * * 1 * inShare0 * ------------------------------------------------- Email Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln. Photograph: David James/AP Mississippi has officially ratified the 13th amendment to the US constitution, which abolishes slavery and which was officially noted in the constitution on 6 December 1865. All 50 states have now ratified the amendment. 1. ------------------------------------------------- Lincoln 2. Production year: 2012 3. Countries: India, Rest of the world, USA 4. Cert (UK): 12A 5. Runtime: 150 mins 6. Directors: Steven Spielberg 7. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lee Pace, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones 8. More on this film Mississippi's tardiness has been put down to an oversight that was only corrected after two academics embarked on research prompted by watching Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated film about president Abraham Lincoln's efforts to secure the amendment. Dr Ranjan Batra, a professor in the department of neurobiology and anatomical sciences at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, saw Spielberg's film and wondered about the implementation of the 13th amendment after the Civil War. He discussed...
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...Why Did The Industrial Revolution Happen First in Britain? The industrial Revolution began in Great Britain almost 250 years ago, in the 1760s. Within a half century it started to spread, first to northwestern Europe and the newly formed United States. The Industrial Revolution consisted of the application of new sources of power to the production process, achieved with transmission equipment necessary to apply this power to manufacturing which involved an increased scale of human organization that facilitated specialization and coordination at pre-industrial levels groupings rarely contemplated. The key invention in Europe’s industrial revolution was the steam engine, which harnessed the energy potential of coal. Later, the industrial revolution also used electric and internal combustion motors and petroleum as well as coal. This revolution, progressively introduced steam or other power to the production process and steadily increased the proportion of the process accomplished by equipment without direct human guidance. The organizational facet of the industrial revolution was initially symbolized by the factory, but the organizational principles spread beyond the factory itself. The two central features of industrialization were the revolution in technology and organization of production, which yielded one clear result of a great increase in the total of goods and individual worker’s output. The revolutionary quality of industrialization is particularly obvious in the world...
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...A Painted House John Grisham Chapter 1 The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." They were farmers, hardworking men who embraced pessimism only when discussing the weather and the crops. There was too much sun, or too much rain, or the threat of floods in the lowlands, or the rising prices of seed and fertilizer, or the uncertainties of the markets. On the most perfect of days, my mother would quietly say to me, "Don't worry. The men will find something to worry about." Pappy, my grandfather, was worried about the price for labor when we went searching for the hill people. They were paid for every hundred pounds of cotton they picked. The previous year, according to him, it was $1.50 per hundred. He'd already heard rumors that a farmer over in Lake City was offering $1.60. This played heavily on his mind as we rode to town. He never talked when he drove, and this was because, according to my mother, not much of a driver herself, he was afraid of motorized vehicles. His truck was a 1939 Ford, and with the exception of our old John Deere tractor, it was our sole means of transportation. This was no particular problem except when...
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...A Painted House John Grisham Chapter 1 The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." They were farmers, hardworking men who embraced pessimism only when discussing the weather and the crops. There was too much sun, or too much rain, or the threat of floods in the lowlands, or the rising prices of seed and fertilizer, or the uncertainties of the markets. On the most perfect of days, my mother would quietly say to me, "Don't worry. The men will find something to worry about." Pappy, my grandfather, was worried about the price for labor when we went searching for the hill people. They were paid for every hundred pounds of cotton they picked. The previous year, according to him, it was $1.50 per hundred. He'd already heard rumors that a farmer over in Lake City was offering $1.60. This played heavily on his mind as we rode to town. He never talked when he drove, and this was because, according to my mother, not much of a driver herself, he was afraid of motorized vehicles. His truck was a 1939 Ford, and with the exception of our old John Deere tractor, it was our sole means of transportation. This was no particular problem except when...
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... the Irish were upset by their merger with Great Britain into the United Kingdom. Identify and explain two areas of discontent. (4 points) Beginning in 1801, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland became a single entity. Many Irish were unhappy with this because they felt it diminished their identity as Irish, and because many viewed England as a historical enemy. The merger of northern Ireland into the British Empire replaced the Roman Catholic Church with the church of England as the state church. What is a monopoly? Explain the benefits to owning a monopoly.(4 points) A monopoly is when a person owns or dominates an industry. He will gain so much power that he either buy out competitors or run them out of business. After that he can be the only person that is able to provide his services. So when he is the only one standing, he can name the prices and the customers are forced to pay. Monopoly can make the owner multi millionaire. . What is urbanization? Identify two of the problems that were associated with rapid urbanization.(4 points) Urbanization is the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban in areas, be it horizontal or vertical, as opposed to being mostly rural and agricultural. Also Urbanization refers to the increasing number of people that live in urban areas. Urbanization changed the economic, social and political setup of a country or region and had several major negative impacts...
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...innovations……………………… 24 1. Colonialism 2. Apprenticeship 3. Science and technology 4. Machine tools 5. Textiles 6. Steam engines 7. Locomotives and Steamboats 8. The Electric Telegraph 9. Architecture 10. Rubber 11. Lighting 12. Time V. Conclusions………………………………………... 42 VI. Bibliography………………………………………… 44 3 I. General Concept 1. The First Industrial Revolution Between 1760 and 1830 the Industrial Revolution was mainly confined to Britain. Being aware of its head start on other countries, Britain forbade the export of machinery, skilled workers and manufacturing techniques. This could not last, as many Britons saw profitable industrial opportunities abroad and continental European businessmen were keen to lure British know-how to their countries. Belgium became the first country in continental Europe to be transformed economically, having machine shops set up in Liège (c.1807) by two Englishmen, William and John Cockerill. Like Britain, the Belgian Industrial Revolution centred on iron, coal and textiles. The industrialization of France was slower and less thorough than that of Britain and Belgium. At the time that Britain was establishing her industrial leadership, France was immersed in its Revolution, the uncertain political...
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...casecase 4 4 patagonia patagonia First ascents: finding thethe way First ascents: finding way toward quality of life life and work toward quality of and work > .> 1. The lie of the land Patagonia’s brand awareness and reputation are distinctly out of proportion to its size. Nestled in a quiet street just yards from the ocean in Ventura, California, Patagonia has for over two and a half decades been renowned for supplying highquality outdoor clothing and equipment to discriminating enthusiasts. A stepchild of Chouinard Equipment, the leading US supplier of speciality climbing equipment in the early s, Patagonia remains privately held. It is a subsidiary of Lost Arrow Corporation, established in as the holding company for Patagonia, Patagonia Mail Order, Chouinard Equipment (now Black Diamond) and Great Pacific Iron Works. Patagonia sales in were US$ million, achieved with employees. Patagonia manages the research and development, design, manufacturing, merchandising and sales (retail, catalogue and web-based) of adult and children’s outdoor clothing, hardgoods such as packs and travel bags, and, more recently (following founder Yvon Chouinard’s long-standing philosophy that, if you can’t find a good one, make it) surf boards! The heart of Patagonia’s success lies in relentless technical innovation that produces a continuous stream of products good enough to meet the tough and © 1999 Greenleaf Publishing Ltd > a. Corporate overview 2 mapping...
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...The Industrial Revolution The term Industrial Revolution refers to the social and economic changes that led to the transition from an agricultural and commercial society to a modern industrial one. This revolution relied on machinery instead of basic tools. This happened in Great Britain in the middle of the 18th century until the middle of the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution spread to other parts of Europe as well as other parts of the world. The period of explorations from the 14th to the 16th centuries helped in laying the foundations for the Industrial Revolution. Because of the explorations and subsequently colonialism, gold and silver from the New World flooded Europe. Prices of commodities rose, industries bloomed and a money-based economy fully developed. The expansion of trade and the economy based on money led to the creation of financial and lending institutions. Thus, the necessary factors for the emergence of an Industrial Revolution had already been established in the 15thcentury. The term Industrial revolution does not imply that changes happened only in the industry. In fact, the rise in the number of factories, the economic changes and the new inventions in science all had a great impact in the lives of the people in Europe and even the whole world. THE RISE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN GREAT BRITAIN From the 18th to the 19th centuries, Great Britain was the leading force in industry. It had large deposits of coal and iron. Because...
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...Railroads were the first billion industry in America, which shaped history forever. At the time the government really didn’t have the power to control the society, but the railroads did. The railroad growth and speculation had helped the New York Stock Exchange inflate, making the volume of stock increase greatly. The railroads were a great investment and many tycoons reaped the benefits from it. Jay Gould, a tycoon who made an estimated $100 million, from buying and selling railroads. But Gould wasn’t the only one swimming in wealth, Cornelius Vanderbilt, also had reaped millions. However, with this escalation of wealth among the rich, only made the vast chasm between rich and poor larger. When more and more people saw that railroads produced a good amount of money, they decided to invest into them as well. This upsurge of investments led to railroad...
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