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Emily Dickinson had a very religious upbringing. She wrote more than 100 poems in this period of time. Many of her poems dealt with death and immortality. Her first collection of poems was not published until 1890, after her death.
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Between the Confederate States of the South and the Union States of the North. The war had many causes, one root of it was the debate over the slavery of black people.
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After the Confederate South lost the Civil War in 1865, an era of reconstruction began when the North tried to help the South transition.
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Abolishing slavery!
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Citizenship to everyone born in the United States, wth the exception of Native Americans.
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Completed mostly through the work of Chinese immigrant workers
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Black American's right to vote!
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Ends the practice of negotiating treaties with the tribes as sovereign states.
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Many things contributed to this world-wide economic depression. In the United States there were many fires and speculative investments that drove bank reserves down. This was known as the Great Depression until the 1930s depression.
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Effectively ends the open range.
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Separate but equal mentality. Don't these boys look educated?
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Custer's regiment defeated by the Souix and the Cheyenne.
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The story of a young American man who is enamoured with a young girl named Daisy. Diasy defies normal social behavior for women and eventually dies.
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What would later allow many writers to continue writing into the very late evenings!
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Signed into law by president Chester A. Arthur. This act lmited the immigration of Chinese.
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Just kidding!
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Permitted the president to divide tribally owned lands into individual allotments, surplus lands sold to non-Indians. This lead to the Indians lossing 90 million acres by the time this act was repealed in 1934.
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Federal troups massacre Big Foot's Minneconjou band and end the Ghost Dance rituals amoung the Souix.
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This story reflects on the popular practice of forcing women to be inactive and stop all creative work to cure depression. It also comments on womens' roles in sociey, but we didn't hear that from Perkins-Gilman, if you know what I mean.
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The story of a young girl whose life is ruined when her baby is born half black.
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The story of a young girl who comes from a disfunctional, poor family. It is alluded that she becomes a prostitute and then dies.
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Upholds segregated transportation.
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The story of a young girl who moves to Chicago and is corrupted by the city.
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His auto-biography and philosophy on how to be a black man in America. He argues that assimilation is the best way to earn respect from white Americans.
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A metephorical comment on the death of art.
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Total bummer.
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This story highlights the inequity and racism prevelant in the US and directed toward Native Americans in that time. A Native American woman wins two horse races but accepts no prize money because of the deameaning and disrespectful way she is treated.
