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    JOURNALS 2nd Semester Week 19 #11. Research one of the battles during the Indian Wars with the Americans during the late 1800s. Create an annotated bibliography of two images and two written sources you would use if you were going to give a presentation. Each annotation will include 2-3 sentences about how the source would be used and why it is important. Must use MLA citation of your sources. Refer to page 457 in your text for reference. All references must come from different sources; Wikipedia

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    Farmers everywhere in the United States during the late nineteenth century had valid reasons to complaint against the economy because the farmers were constantly being taken advantage of by the railroad companies and banks. All farmers faced similar problems and for one thing‚ farmers were starting to become a minority within the American society. In the late nineteenth century‚ industrialization was in the spotlight creating big businesses and capitals. The success of industrialization put agriculture

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    5/14/13 Populist Farmers everywhere in the United States during the late nineteenth century had valid reasons to complain against the economy because the farmers were constantly being taken advantage of by the railroad companies and banks. All farmers faced similar problems and for one thing‚ farmers were starting to become minorities within the American society. In the late 19th century‚ industrialization was in the spotlight creating big businesses and capitals. The success of industrialization

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    Farming around the thirty year period of 1870 to 1900 was not a fair or successful one. One demographic that suffered immensely was the black population. Fresh out of the civil war‚ African Americans tried to acquire land‚ but had a difficult time paying off loans‚ which had high interest rates and took property as collateral. Black land owners were then forced to take out more loans‚ which thrust them into a spiraling debt (Document B). As seen in The Farmers Grievances‚ a skillful farmer‚ compared

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    Evolution‚ the belief that all humans were made from earlier forms of history in the Earth that leaves people in a true controversy over what to believe. Inherit The Wind is a play revolving the Scopes Monkey Trial‚ where a school teacher‚ Bertram Cates‚ taught evolutionism to his students without being allowed. He is then accused and brought to trial where many people come to join in the fight. Brady‚ a lawyer‚ has the job in the play to prosecute this “lawbreaker” while putting up a strong personality

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    The play Inherit the Wind‚ was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee to inform its readers about the injustice of a law that limited the freedom of an ordinary citizen. This play is based upon actual events that happened to an individual‚ John Scopes‚ in Dayton‚ Tennessee during the 1920’s. This famous "Monkey Trial" not only allowed people to begin to accept new theories about the origin of man‚ but also showed that they did not have to limit themselves in other areas of life. In the

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    Inherit the Wind Inherit the Wind is based on the John Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. This was based on whether or not fundamentalism or creationism should be taught in schools. The title Inherit the Wind is an allusion to the Bible verse ‚ "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart." The allusion to this verse has several applications in the play. In Act 2‚ Scene 1‚ Reverend Brown "troubleth his own house" by isolating his daughter

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    The Jennings Petroglyph‚ or stone carving‚ is a large rock slab of fine-grained sandstone containing more than 30 pecked images. The rock includes stone carvings of various discernable and unidentifiable human-like figures as well as mammal-like and insect like figures. The depressions were carved and rubbed into the stone by means of a hammerstone and later chalked to make more visible. The Jennings Petroglyph is believed to be the first and oldest petroglyph to be found in the state of New Jersey

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    Although Bryan is discussing bimetallism and the Ocala Platform is discussing laws for farmers‚ they are in fact quite similar in their demands. Neither of the two parties wants national banks; they both would rather have smaller local banks to run the money in the country. Also they both believe income tax is a good thing and that it should not be removed. In William Jennings Bryan’s speech before the Democratic National Convention‚ he stated that “we are opposing the national bank” (Bryan). In the

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    on Peter Jenning. Peter was born July 29th‚ 1938 he was born in Toronto‚ Canada. He died in Manhattan‚ New York city. Jennings was a Canadian American journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005. In 1983‚ Reynolds (the anchor before peter) fell ill with multiple myeloma‚ a type of blood cancer that often attacks the bones‚ and was forced to stop anchoring in April. ABC originally expected a full recovery‚ and relocated Jennings to its Washington

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