HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 5 Outline of Last Lecture I Chapter 16 Reconstruction 1863 1877 II Chapter 17 The Contested West 1865 1900 Outline of Current Lecture III Chapter 17 The Contested West 1865 1900 Homestead Act Homesteading Sharecroppers cont Mormons Chinese Day Laborers Coolies Current Lecture Homestead Act Homesteading Sharecropping cont There was no guarantee that a Homesteader would receive property the odds were 50 50 Sharecroppers tagged along with Homesteaders were considered squatters Sharecroppers were mostly American very poor uneducated lacked skills were considered people of no means impoverished also referred to as tenant farmers Borrowers debtors some had just been released from the institution of slavery Mormons Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Christian group o Founder Joseph Smith Religion born and established in the United States Joseph Smith encountered an unsurmountable amount of aggravation due to his practicing of polygamy The early practicing Mormons used polygamy more than one wife Joseph Smith and a large amount of his followers were publicly executed for their beliefs Brigham Young picked up the gauntlet and moved the Mormons to Utah where they would encounter harsh weather conditions and hostile Native Americans but were ultimately allowed to practice in peace Brigham Young became the first governor of Utah but was required to ban polygamy Chinese Day Laborers Coolies Nickname Coolies signified a lack of respect and tolerance toward the railroad workers All male all young all single came to San Francisco s Angel Island at first small amounts of around 2 000 but then escalated to over 200 000 within a decade These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute First sizeable group of Asians in the United States Didn t speak English didn t assimilate didn t buy or spend their money considered birds of passage they would work seasonally and then leave back to China their forms of employment didn t sit well with the Americans Built the railroads in 1860 there was 25 000 miles of lain track by 1900 there was 193 000 miles of lain track The Transcontinental railroad met in Utah by 1900 They would work for 6 days a week 17 hours a day They were also responsible for the construction work dynamite blasts in the Sierra Nevada mountains Continue to read or begin reading Booker T Washington s Up From Slavery The book quiz will be held next Friday 02 06 2015
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