The result was deaths most likely caused by lack of food. Another cause of many deaths would be fights that erupted because of fights with the Powhatan Indians, the main group of native people in which they traded with. With both parties relying on each other for food, a lack there of may have caused many people to be killed by Indians who needed food because of the drought which also affected their ability to grow things. [Doc.C] Shows in a group of one-hundred and ten colonists, a vast majority of them were gentlemen. Gentlemen were wealthy men not used to working with their hands.
The Common Dissent After a thirty-year presidency, Porfiro Diaz’s centralized agrarian policies favoring the elite haciendas had caused formidable rebellions in the North and South of Mexico. Diaz established many new technologies and industries only to appeal to the greater European investors. These industries, such as mines and sugar plants, robbed the people of their land, dehumanized working conditions and cut minimum wages resulting in major dissent among the suffering middle class. By October of 1910, during Madero’s release from prison, militant rebellions led by local leaders erupted in the North and South states killing several units of Federal troops. Separated geographically, Poncho Villa in the North and Emiliano Zapata in the South contrasted in both their origin and military strategy, while
While this sounds like a great basis for a government, it would ultimately lead to a lot of their problems. Once everyone decided to demand equal wages, for unequal work, the framework was destined to collapse on itself. Other than this very basic blueprint of a republican government, there was no other real governing body of Brook Farm. While Ripley and his counterparts founding it and were in charge, they by no means sponsored totalitarianism or tyranny, nor did they run any sort of dictatorship. Everyone was free to come and go as they pleased, and most partakers did not even live on the acreage owned by the community.
The Fitzgerald's had a poor relationship and partied all the time. Fitzgerald's life was made up of other people using him for his old money. The people that surrounded him were jobless but filthy rich of off old money. The people around Fitzgerald boasted about everything they did, “Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time.
60% of population left this area, in Texas the population dropped from 40000 to 1000 people. Oklahoma farmers – “Okies” were forced to abandon their farms. This misfortune and hardship was described by John Steinbeck in his novel “The Grapes of Wrath”, where he portrayed the misery of those people. Many “Okies” moved to California, which was at this time “The Promised Land”. They hoped for better life and work, but what they actually found, was more drudgery, misery, hardship and incredible poverty.
From their very childhood they were raised lazy and luxurious with no restrictions from stealing the land from the peasants if they don’t bring enough profit. Such uncontrolled government is perfect grounds for crime thriving. Simple farmers were powerless against their masters. When left with nothing, they begin questioning the stability of law, referencing the invincibility of the rich who have done them the injustice. Understanding, then, that law is practically absent, they turn to theft in desperation.
Poor whites lived in the slums of Southern society and did not hold slaves. Even though the workers did not hold any, they still supported them because they believed the blacks, if free, would compete with them for land. On the other hand, priests and upper classes condoned slavery. The South was an agricultural
They did give land to the farmers, but they gave worthless arid lands, with no irrigation system or water supply. Most important of all, as land was a public good, people lost a key incentive. It did not matter whether you work hard or not, you gain exactly the same. So there was no point in working hard to try to be more successful, in the end it was not your land. The first thing you have to assure as an economy is private property.
Another result of this rivalry was a decline in membership for the UFW, in the late 70's it had a membership of about 100,000, in 1996 its membership was about 24,000 this is a major decline for the UFW. In the state of Washington the Union Nacional de Trabajadores led an alliance of four labor groups accusing fruit growers of not paying overtime pay, not providing safe working conditions, and not allowing the workers to organize without the fear of some type of retribution. There were about 45,000 workers involved in the case. Through NAFTA the Mexican Unions now have two complaints, This case and another one that is about a the Sprint Cell Phone company improperly closing a plant in California while a unionization drive was going
The Tainos were not prepared to fight, therefore they were turned into slaves and used for mining. Later on, the Taino leader, Agueybana, decided to rebel and there was a big war between the Spaniards and the Tainos. During the fight, Agueybana was shot and killed. Many Tainos hid in the forests and the mountains and others left to nearby islands. Agriculture was a big thing in Puerto Rico, and most of the Tainos left the island.