1837 Great Financial Crisis In 1837 the Eastern USA suffered an economic collapse. Many people lost their jobs, and as Banks went bust they also lost their savings. People were bankrupted and factories and businesses closed. The Mormons, whose Bank also collapsed ruining many non-believers, became one of the more popular scapegoats for the ruin. This resulted in many Mormons choosing to move West in the face of increasing violence. The increasing population had made land hard to come by. This
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Case: The Vermillion Housing Initiative The City of Vermillion is a college town of about 10,000 residents situated on the northern Great Plains. The University of South Dakota is the City’s largest employer but it has recently acquired a large high tech company and a mining equipment manufacturer. About two-thirds of the people who work in Vermillion reside outside the city limits because of the lack of suitable housing. Vermillion would like to grow so that it can provide citizens with higher
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see up there. Faces of presidents on mountains, crazy horse, all the colorful mountains and the thick forests. All that sounds very boring to me. Going up till we hit South Dakota all I remember was me sleeping, my siblings screaming, looking at corn and the radio blasting, until we hit the gate of South Dakota, Yankton South Dakota. Where I was born. Head and three Yankton we stopped by my grandma’s farm house to visit for a while which was okay because she always had hard candy and ice cream there
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not known, there are still several pieces of information that can be used to piece together the history. Several sources believe the dance began in the Northern region; ‘the dance was given to the Dakota by the Ponca about three hundred years ago at a place just east of the Black hills of South Dakota’ (Howard, 82). An approximation places this time frame around the year of 1860. As more participants began to experience and learn the dance style, the influence and knowledge of the dance began to
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The Battle of Little Bighorn The Battle of Little Bighorn was fought on June 25, 1876, the Battle soon ended the next day. There are many said reasons for the cause of this battle. The Sioux tribe was a Native American tribe that lived in the West of the United States in the 1800s. The Sioux tribe did not like that the white settlers were trying to make them move. “These Indians continue to rove at pleasure, attacking scattered settlements, stealing horses and cattle, and murdering peaceful
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It all began a few summers ago when my family decided to go on a vacation. This happened around the time when I was about to leave the 3rd grade and my parents came up with the idea of taking a trip to South Dakota. I had never been there before and was very happy because I had never been out of the state of Colorado. This was something new, after this vacation I would be able to say that I have gone out of the state. All my friends were surprised that I had never been out of the state. I have never
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Mount Rushmore is a national monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota, which has become a big tourist attraction. It has a history that not everyone knows, which makes it unique from other United States monuments. Some common questions people have are why was a huge carving placed on a mountain in South Dakota, who carved it, and how did they choose which four presidents would be on it? In the 1920's a historian by the name of Doane Robinson had an idea to carve historical figures into the
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The conflict over the ownership of the YMCA’s building rages on, with no solution. The YMCA has owned the building for over 20 years, bringing lots of people that care deeply about who runs and owns the building. But soon, the building they’ve grown to love may be under new ownership. As the mayor was leaning towards new ownership, most citizens thought all hope was lost. But as the mayor suddenly resigned, this may change. The election of Sherwood’s mayor has been controversial itself, even before
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a sense of calming and relaxing reaction. She tells the audience that not many people like the upper Midwest. By doing so, she gives off descriptive diction on how innocent her hometown is, North Dakota, and how she would want to protect it. She gives a descriptive paragraph to show how that North Dakota is not a very lonely place and how people should not judge it by the looks, but by looking for the inter greatness. Visual imagery is used to give an image to her audience on how decent and genuine
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The article focuses about the circumstance living of the Indian in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The Indians have many disadvantages over a lot of things such as demographic, health care, educations, employment, and housing. The author creates a list of information that compares between the Indians and American. The main arguments in this article are the life of the Indians are lacking in so many ways which we cannot even imagine that they are a part of United States. The evidence
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