The implements -The scratch plow, basically a sharpened stick with handles for direction and a pole for the attachment to the animal or human, was adapted to light or coarse textured soils. The horse collar- With the introduction of the horse collar, horseshoe, and nails, a remarkable series of events occurred once the horse could be truly exploited 2. How did the agricultural revolution change European society? Provide an example. The Industrial Revolution is thought to be a result of the Agricultural Revolution.
Together, Bryan and the farmer’s alliance brought in some good ideas. The farmers were hardly getting any money for all they did so, the Alliance came up with an idea to help with inflation, bring in more crop shares, lower their debt, and income taxes which would help hold down the American economy. The book mentions silver to gold ratio 16:1, for an unlimited amount of coinage and creates more surplus. The silver was their uprising and their downfall. The Alliance hadn’t had much political power, except for the Sherman Silver Act which replaced the gold as the primary coinage in the United States.
This certainly fights against the view that Alexander II was reluctant in his reforms on the surface – however, once investigated, the limits of emancipation are clear. The 49 year redemption payments were a huge limiting factor in allowing peasants economic freedom to then have social freedom, and class was still a major issue even if it had been reduced. The highly inflated land prices that ensued meant that very few peasants could afford land, and Alexander II did nothing to resolve this. It does lend to the idea of his ‘radical’ reforms being fairly reluctant as he did not go further with them. Alexander III took an even more conservative view during his reign, repealing many of Alexander II’s social
(1) Lords seized more peasant land for their own estates and demanded more unpaid labor. 6. The re-emergence of Serfdom in Eastern Europe cannot be explained by economic factors alone. m) Western Europe experienced similar agricultural and population decline in the 14th and 15th centuries, but its peasants won better rather than harsher conditions. n) Eastern lords enjoyed much greater political power than did their Western counterparts.
Some revisionist historians have claimed that 1815 was in fact the time when the structure of Ireland’s agriculture began to shift from tillage to cattle farming. Foster claims that livestock encroached the
The 1920s were not such a positive time period in the US history. What made the 20s negative was farmers’ hardships, the overuse of credit, and re-rise of the KKK. American farmers were able to make profits during WWI because demand for war products was high. After the war, when everything returned to normal, demand for farm products also fell. Farms and factories that were prosperous during the war now faced difficulties to sell their products.
Did Reconstruction succeed or fail? I don’t think that Reconstruction can be described simply as a “failure” or a “success” however “The racial boundaries of nationality had been redrawn, but not eliminated.” (Foner, 576) Reconstruction raised questions like “Did freedom mean simply the absence of slavery, or did it imply other rights for former slaves, and if so, which ones: equal civil rights, the vote, ownership of property?” (Foner, 556) “To begin with freedom meant escaping the numerous injustices of slavery-punishment by the lash, the separation of families, denial of access to education, the sexual exploitation of black women by their owner-and sharing in the rights and opportunities of American citizens” (Foner, 557) There were a few positive aspects of Reconstruction such as the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments and the Civil Rights Act and there were negatives aspects such as the Black codes. The black codes were laws passed by the southern state governments that attempted to regulate the lives of former slaves. (Foner, 570). Another unfortunate reality of reconstruction was the system of sharecropping.
I asked them if their lives were similar to what Orwell described. They told me that although life had gotten better, poverty is still evident almost everywhere. Their grandparents remember the terror of living during the generation Orwell writes about. To think that my grandparents were wealthy Texans and living on estates, whereas their families were living in ghettos and wearing rags is difficult to accept. Looking at how Orwell is writing, one can tell he usually writes more opinionated pieces.
Woodward’s thesis, in essence, is that “the determination of the Negro’s ‘place’ took shape gradually under the influence of economic and political conflicts among divided white people.” (6) and that segregation had not always been an aspect of the history of whites and blacks. Jim Crow laws were ironically birthed in the North. It did not sprung up soon after slavery was abolished. The “Home Rule” was that southern states would self govern after Reconstruction as long as there laws coincided with federal laws. White supremacy, according to Woodward, is the upholding as white as the superior race through systematic oppression.
The practice of slavery was common during the American Revolution, but was mostly practiced in the south. But during the revolution, American revolutionaries thought about the morals of slavery, but were unable to change much at this time. However, slavery was able to be banned in the Northwest Territories, where it wasn’t too important to that region’s economy. Although the revolution was not directly able to ban slavery, it showed the issue and allowed future generations to solve