Beginning: Let me first explain the Grell family. My Grandfather David Grell and Grandmother Linda Grell currently live in Prior Lake, Minnesota. Grandpa owns a construction business, while grandma is a high school secretary. My mother, Laura Todd, the first of three daughters, lives in Sioux Rapids Iowa with my Father Kerby, and works at Buena Vista University. My Aunt, Angie Mendrzychowski, the middle child, married to my Uncle Steve, and is currently living in Shakopee, Minnesota. My Aunt, Jackie Antonie, recently married my Uncle Tony, and is currently living in Chicago, Illinois. The conflict came when my parents moved to Iowa. When I was much younger my family lived in Eagan, Minnesota. Nearly 30 miles away from my grandparents home. I spent countless summer afternoons at my grandparents home. I remember it all: riding bikes, fishing, and riding on the boat across the lake. My father had family in Iowa working on a large farm located in Holstein. My grandparents didn’t understand why my father wanted to move to Iowa. They didn’t understand why he wanted to farm. My family an...
Through the period of 1865-1900, America’s agriculture underwent a series of changes .Changes that were a product of influential role that technology, government policy and economic conditions played. To extend on this idea, changes included the increase on exported goods, do the availability of products as well as the improved traveling system of rail roads. In the primate stages of these developing changes, farmers were able to benefit from the product, yet as time passed by, dissatisfaction grew within them. They no longer benefited from the changes (economy went bad), and therefore they no longer supported railroads. Moreover they were discontented with the approach that the government had taken towards the situation.
The farmers of the late 1800s had many reasons for being dissatisfied with their situation. Unfair railroad practices, such as rebates and drawbacks, hurt them severely. Even common issues of shortage of money, drought, and mortgages were all issues that hurt farmers economically. The farmers of the period, though, used these issues to change the shape of American politics.
Crow laws and share cropping. At this day and age in American history, the life of a black child
Many tribes resisted this policy. Wars were fought as a result. The Sac and Fox Indians in Wisconsin and Illinois reoccupied their lands after having been forced to move west of the Mississippi. They were defeated. The Seminole Indians refused to sign a treaty to give up their lands. They, too, fought and lost a bitter war to remain on their land.
In the Appalachian region, the Hatfields and McCoys did not always see eye to eye. These two families faced many feuds and, in general, did not agree on much. Many different institutional changes and class differences influenced the many feuds between the groups and to a certain degree the feuds were conflicts between traditional and modern ways of life. In many ways, the production by the History Channel in 2012 covering the Hatfields and McCoys obscure the underlying causes of these feuds and perpetuate long-held stereotypes of the actual events.
Mr. Allen also speaks in depth of the farmers. The Farmer’s Holiday occurred when Milo Reno organized Iowan farmers and got them to “refuse to bring food into Sioux City for thirty days, ‘or until the cost of production had been obtained” (86).
Some of the biggest range wars were well known and covered by newspapers in big cities such as Denver, San Fransisco, and even as far away as Chicago. One of the most famous of these conflicts was the Lincoln County War of 1878, in Lincoln County, New Mexico. It actually wasn’t over cattle at all, it was fought over control of the dry goods business. One side was led by Lawrence Murphy and James Dolan. Murphy had a dry goods monopoly and therefore could control prices on everything. They faced opposition from John Tunstall, and englishman, and his business partner Alexander McSween, a lawyer. Tunstall and McSween were backed by John Chisum, one of the biggest ranchers in the county, who was tired of paying Murphy’s prices for goods. The Lincoln County war was also the beginning of the infamous feud between Sheriff Pat Garret and the outlaw Billy the Kid, who worked for Tunstall before the eng...
North Dakota is very hard working state, and it is comfortably ordinary, as I stated above this collection captured this very well. This family didn’t do anything that will stand in history forever and that is will be forever common knowledge. They were a common family in North Dakota that most of us are familiar with the lifestyle. I would say that if most families had papers and diaries dating back to when this family started a lot of it would be very similar with slight differences. North Dakota is very ordinary place to live, nothing really all that exciting happens all to often but the people here today and back then I would say were very comfortable with it.
Farmer’s discontent during the period 1870 – 1900 had an impact on their attitudes and actions towards politics. During this period manufacturing had a growth spurt and agricultural started to decline. This made it harder for the farmers to make a decent living. For example in document G it shows how much manufacturing increased between the 50 years. America could no longer dream to be a nation of small freehold farms. Manufacturers and people living in big cities depended on farmers to supply everything. Many people didn’t realize how much of an affect farmers had on their lives. If somebody was to take farms away, everything would have completely crashed.
American farmers found themselves facing hard times after the Civil War. In the West, the railroad had opened up enormous opportunities. Farmers were now able to cultivate land that had previously been to far from the Eastern markets to make a profit. However, that opportunity came at a price. The farmers increasing dependence on the railroads and other commercial interests made them an easy target for exploitative business practices.
Sectionalism was especially highlighted through unstable economic conditions in the nation. The “Era of Good Feelings” occurred during Democratic Republican domination of the presidency, yet the agricultural industry was not given exceptional importance. John Randolph in Document A, references how farming is not kept in mind when making federal economic decisions, but the manufacturing industry is entirely accounted for. “The agriculturalists bear the whole brunt of the war and taxation, and remain poor, while the others run in the ring of pleasure, and fatten upon them.” Only enabling the manufacturing economy to thrive, while suppressing the agricultural economy, is an insecure basis for a country to subsist upon. However, this situation displays the lack of equilibrium in society, exposing a major tension between the north, south and west. Each region was only concerned with its individual prosp...
Urbanization has opened many factory jobs. Mother of the family, Terry Neumann, is a stay at home mom (Frontline Video, 2013). But with the Stanley family as well (Frontline Video, 2013). The Stanley family consisted of Jackie, the mother, Claude, the father, two daughters, Nicole and Omega, son Keith, and two twin boys, Claude and Claude (Frontline Video, 2013).
The eastern frontier became the start of the “melting pot” due to many settlers coming in and settling in different areas in America. However, once people start migrating towards the west, everyone started to travel together and settle in together with people who were of the same race or ethnic group. Because many people settled together in the western frontier, racial tension rose between each group. For example, before the migration into the frontier, there was already discrimination between the whites and the Natives and blacks. Some wondered which race was better than the other, Natives or blacks, and what about Asians, how superior are the Asians, or the Hispanics (52). In the western frontier,...
On August 27, 1906, Edward Theodore Gein was the second son born to his alcoholic father George Gein, and his religiously fanatic mother Augusta Gein in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His older brother, Henry Gein, was 7 years older than him (BBC, 2008). Despite the children and Augustans contempt towards George, who was drunk and unemployed most of the time, they stayed together as divorce was not an option because of the family’s religious beliefs. Augusta did however run a small grocery store and when Ed was around the age of 8 they bought and moved to a farm in Plainfield where the nearest neighbors were over a mile away. This was because Augusta wanted to get the kids away from the evils of society
The tractors hired by the bank literally tear down the bond between man and the land. Due to the eviction, the farmers are forced to move to California, where work is supposedly in demand. As each family takes off for California, it no longer feels a connection to the lands through which it is traveling. Once it reaches California, it feels no connection to its land. For the first time, it is forced to be dependent on somebody else's generosity in distributing jobs, and most importantly, somebody else's land. Thus, in California, the relationship between man and land is not as strong as it was in Arkansas and Oklahoma. The change in this relationship is due in part to the mercilessness of the bank, and in the end, man loses because its connection to the only significant thing it has ever owned is gone. Once the families travel to California, each family member's soul stays back in Oklahoma, making it difficult to adjust to working on lands that have not been cultivated by their own family for generations.