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Immagration and Westward Expansion between 1860 and 1914
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Religion of my Choice
I finally got to go to to the church that I wanted to. I was not forced by my town to go. It was my option and I enjoyed the coming to the church that I felt was right. The effect of going to this church it that my family did not feel grateful that we moved to America but when they saw the church and that we got to pick what church we wanted to go to, they were all very grateful. -
The gun shot
As we walked into church I saw boys (my daughters age) pointing and laughing at her.I felt dicriminated against going to this church. I told her to ignore them, that they do not have manners. She ignored me and turned around to the boys faces and screamed. They got mad and one of them pulled out a gun. I told her to run, and then I heard the gun shot. I looked at her face turn white I rushed her to the Hospital. -
Working over time
As a result of my daughter being shot. We had to pay the bills so she could stay alive so I worked day and night. One of the nights that I had already worked my 12 hour shift I stayed and worked. I was so tired that I started to zone out of what I was doing. I was cutting fabric with my fabric knife and I was not paying enough attention so my thumb came off. Bleeding I went to doctor and it cost more money to make sure my thumb stopped bleeding ans started to heel. -
Starting a new life in Amereica
It was a really har desision for my family and me. None really wanted to move west exept for the Homestead Act. I felt that being in America we had not had the happiniess that we had hoped for. My really push to my family was that if got some of this land we couls build a shop of my own and sell fabric to get more money and build a palace to live in. My husband Could farm and we could get even more money. My family finally agreed so we moved west. -
Sickness turning into death
The result of us Moving West and getting free land was that my husband got sick. His body did not do well in the move. He got sick and we were hoping it was jsut the flu. He said the he was ok but I knew that it wasn't. We wen't to the doctor when his heart beated slower and slower. By the time we reached the hospital I knew he wasn't coming home with us. The effect of my husband dying was that we could not open up my new shop and we needed to sell the land to rent a room in our neighbors house. -
Great Grandmothers Mirror
I thought that I had lost the mirror that my Great Grandmother gave to me as a little girl in the Move to the west. I was un packing and I found it in the bottom of an old box full of my daughters jewlry. I sobbed, this is what my family needed to have our dream life living in the west. I sold the mirror, I was able to get our land back, then my family and I built or dream home on our dream land. We were so happy but we wished that our dad/husband could be here with us while we live happily.
