It aimed to satisfy many of the people who were being left out of politics and either forgotten about or just not cared for by the rich elite. These groups were however not constricted to the debt ridden agrarians, wage earners, currency reformers and residents of Western mining states. (Fink 216) This attempt to branch out to many different concerned interest groups was the only way this party was able to become as powerful as it did. “In no national election from 1872 to 1888 did the combined votes of all alternative parties top 4 percent of the total. The People’s Party offered the best and perhaps the last chance to convert antimonopoly sentiment into a winning strategy.”(Fink
Most of the African Americans were just slaves to the Whites. The African Americans didn’t usually have any say in their lives because they were unequal to the Whites. The African Americans were forced to sharecrop because they could not afford their own land. Their pay was less than minimal. The African Americans were treated unfairly and they were the first group of people that were laid off during any economic downturn.
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The lack of motivation caused by years of not having a job and watching your family suffer in poverty is a condition that not too many of us are familiar with. “Native American Poverty,” by Tom Rodgers justifies the allegations that a large percentage, about 25%, of the Native Americans live in poverty. “According to the US Census Bureau, these Americans earn a median annual income of $33,627. One in every four (25.3 percent) lives in poverty and nearly a third (29.9 percent) are without health insurance coverage.” The lack of money has become a huge component in the dismemberment of the culture that the Natives so lavishly submerged themselves into, and the picking up other undesirable traits such as drinking. The
Even into the 19th Century, numerous wars broke out between the Indians and the United States forces. Authorities drafted countless treaties during this period and then nullified them. Well known battles include the Native American victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, and the massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee in 1890. The American policy toward Native Americans has been an evolving process. “In the past decade, American Indian organizations have received a large number of new applications, and many children are learning to speak native languages better than their parents” (Nagel, 1996; Martin, 1997).
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The traditional way of life for the Sioux and all Native American was called into question as the westward expansion of the United States unfolded. Standing Bear as a young child experienced many of the hardships first hand between the clash of cultures of the Native and white. This autobiography helps enlighten to what
Daniel Pacheco English 101 H. Barsamian 4/29/12 The Immortal Life of Segregation To me social class is what matters most today. People have judgments about others based on their economic standing. People treat other people differently because one is richer then the other. We are all separated into social class the lower class are all grouped together in one neighborhood and the rich in another but we cant be mixed we have to stay in our social class. If we look back in history race was what mattered most.
Many of these acts proved to be failures, and left conflicts unresolved. The Allotment Act of 1887 was passed to provide each family of tribal members 160 acres of land in hopes for assimilation with the non-Native Americans. This act ended in failure with poor planning, and no effort with teaching Natives how to cultivate land like White homesteaders in order to survive. Later, this resulted in many White landowners taking possession of these lands. The few Native Americans that managed to keep their land, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), a federal government committee, served as trustee and held the legal titles over these lands.
This cut off almost a third of Americans because they had little to no high school education. High school played a big role in getting a career started for women which were considered white collared jobs. “but access to secondary schooling was determined by class and ethnicity.” Therefore, poor people had a low chance of applying and being accepted. The entrance requirements to be a teacher requires 4 years of schooling, a degree, and they also added a minimum grade for the state teachers examination. They had tightened their requirements because careers like doctors, lawyers, and engineers did as well.