Use an encyclopedia, the Internet, or other sources to research the following Reconstruction scandals. 300 words each for all three of them.
- the Tweed Ring in New York
- the Credit Mobilier Scandal
- Black Friday
Answer:
Black Friday
The Gold Ring was formed by Jay Gould and James Fisk. The then president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, made an effort to stabilize the US dollar, boost the economy after the hits of the civil war, and also to pay off the national debt caused by the war. He tried to do this by selling treasury gold every week. The first step he took to get a grip on the economy was to sign the Public Credit Act, which enabled citizens to have their bonds repaid in gold or the equivalent and so get a more secure circulation of “sound money “. Moreover, president Grant placed the very talented George Boutwell in charge of the United States Treasury and he started selling gold on a weekly basis to buy US wartime bonds. At the same time he improved the tax collecting methods to avoid counterfeiting and was able to keep the gold price and the money supply level artificially low. Jay Gould and James Fisk infiltrated in the social circles of president Grant to receive confidential information of the selling of gold. They plotted to stop the president from selling the gold weekly, so that the price of gold could rise again. They also fed the president with false premonitions that the gold selling would harm farmers. When they thought that they found a profitable price to buy gold, they did so, in order to sell the gold again later for a higher price and so increase their wealth. But the president came to know about their foul scheme and he ordered more gold to be sold on this particular Friday ,24th of September 1869 ,called “ Black Friday’’ and in this way the price of gold went so low that Gould and Fisk lost most of their money.
The Dawes Acts (including civil service reforms)
The 1887 Dawes Act, gave the authority to the president of the United States to allot Native American tribal land to individual Native Americans. If they accepted these allotments and would go live separately from their tribes, they would be granted the US citizenship. The creator of the act was Massachusetts senator Henry Laurens Dawes. The Dawes Act was a way to transfer tribal and communal ownership of land into individual ownership, and also to give non-Native Americans the chance to purchase these lands. In 1891 the Dawes Act was amended, then in 1898 into the Curtis Act and then again in 1906 by the Burke Act. For decades after these Acts, the Tribal communities have sold a great part of their communal land to non-Native Americans and in this way the government managed to destroy their tribal way of living . The aim of the government was to open the Indian lands for European- American settlers to farm and make way for railroads. Through this Act, tribal owned land in America decreased from 138 million acres in 1887 to only 48 million acres in 1934. The Dawes act had an impact on the gender roles and the social structure in the Native American community because to be able to receive land, the women had to be officially married. Before, the women had control over property and descent because of the matrilineal tribal society. Now the men had to go out working in the fields while the women had to do domestic chores. The original plan, concocted by Henry Dawes to create respectable farmers according to the European –American model has failed and left the tribal community as mere survivors of destruction.
Explanation:
Why does Walt Whitman use the word singing in the title”I hear America singing”
Answer:
to illustrate a misguided and simple interpretation of American society.
Explanation:
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Explain how Volta's discovery led to Oersted's
discovery.
Answer:
Oersted showed that electric current produces a circular magnetic effect around it. ... Just as Volta's invention of the battery had opened new horizons in physics and chemistry, Oersted's discovery of a link between electricity and magnetism unleashed a revolution in physics leading us into our current digital world
Explanation:
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The narrator emphasizes the speed at which the Landlady answers the door. What might this foreshadow about the landlady, about Billy, and about how the two might interact later in the story?
A) He senses something strange about her.
B) She is a studious Landlady.
She is just excited for company and looking forward to his arrival
D) He thinks that she is a nice, sweet lady and they will become quick friends
How do we know that the leather cord with Anasai’s symbol is important?
We know that the leather cord with Anasai’s symbol is important, because it was given to Paige after she came back from 15th Century London.
Paige was given the black leather cord by her grandmother Gabrielle after she returned from 15th century England. The cord had a large silver heart attached to it and inside of this heart there were symbols carved into the silver. Both Paige and Gabrielle agreed that this cord once belonged to the rebel leader Lady Agnes who led an uprising against Queen Mary I's reign in 1553 AD. This seemed like a very significant object for both women agree on its value to history.
Which element should you avoid in a summary.
A.facts
B. Personal opinions
C. Main ideas
D. Specific words
Explanation:
we should avoid personal opinion not every time but only sometimes. I am not sure about it better to ask a tutor
PLEASE HELP ME You have now read and listened to two speeches: one given by Martin Luther King and one given by George W. Bush. Describe each of these works, evaluating how the speaker’s tone, emphasis, pace, and use of rhetorical devices helps persuade his audience. Be specific and use textual evidence from the speeches as support.
Make sure to use three grade-level vocabulary words in your writing.
Your answer should be two to three paragraphs long.
I need bush speech stuff ITS DUE IN A HOURRRRRR D:
Answer:
Just explain which ever one on what helps him bring attention to the audience and give details in the speeches
What does meta mean?
large
thinking
awareness
seeing
Answer:Meta means for someone to do or make something!
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Answer:
sorry, but you would have to answer because nobody else read the book/text...
Answer:
The most important information about katherines life appears
Explanation:
I think this because that is the structure for most stories about people
what are the 5 forms of precipitation
Answer:
Rain. Most commonly observed, drops larger than drizzle (0.02 inch / 0.5 mm or more) are considered rain. ...
Drizzle. Fairly uniform precipitation composed exclusively of fine drops very close together. ...
Ice Pellets (Sleet) ...
Hail. ...
Small Hail (Snow Pellets) ...
Snow. ...
Snow Grains. ...
Ice Crystals.
Explanation:
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Answer:
rain, snow, hail, freezing rain, sleet.
Explanation:
The different types of precipitation are ice crystals, rain (and freezing rain), snow, drizzle (and freezing drizzle), snow grains, ice pellets, snow pellets and hail.
When determining what the different types of precipitation are you have to look at how they form to determine if they are a different type.
Ice crystals form when the air is very cold, and are just crystals that form from water vapor directly freezing. This means that ice crystals do not form in cloud, and they are the only type of precipitation that doesn't.
Snow forms as ice crystals in cloud. These crystals then collide and adhere to each other forming snow. There is also another process called the Bergeron effect where water molecules adhere to the ice crystal, but is it a little too complicated to explain here. Anyway as the snow flake falls if it melts it turns into rain. If that rain drop falls back through a below freezing layer it first comes freezing rain (meaning it is still rain but once it hits something it will freeze) and if the temperature still drops then the rain refreezes and forms ice pellets.
Drizzle forms as liquid in low cloud (stratus), and is very small droplets. If they fall through a below freezing layer it will make freezing drizzle and if the layer is thicker it will become solid and turn into snow grains.
1 point
Rifka was courageous, and she saved her family. Is the verb "was" regular
or irregular?
regular
irregular
present
present participle
past
past participle
Answer:
Regular I think
Explanation:
What does the word “adrenaline” most closely mean as it is used in the paragraph: I could hardly believe my ears. I spoke in a trembling rush. “Oh, thank you, sir!” Suddenly I felt great. I didn’t know about adrenaline in those days, but I knew something was pumping through me, making me feel as tall as the sky.
A: Fear; nervousness
B: Energy and excitement
C: Gratitude and thankfulness
D: Despair; anger
Answer:
B
Explanation:
Which answer choice is a sentence fragment?
A house with no cars in the driveway.
I have not seen the neighbors for a few days.
I noticed a large package on my neighbor's front porch yesterday.
The package is still on the front porch today.
3 out of 5
After the game, the team danced in a huddle.
Select one:
a. phrase
b. independent clause
c. subordinate clause
Answer:
Independent clause
Explanation:
It expresses a complete thought. For example: The waves crashed onto the sandy shore.
Answer:
B
Explanation:
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What are the main principles of communism in animal farm?
Answer:
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, communism is represented when the animals lead a revolution and attempt to distribute work and food evenly. ... All the other animals, who are not considered intelligent, are only taught two things: “four legs good, two legs bad” (31) and “Napoleon is always right” (50-51).
With the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the right to active participation in American representative democracy had legally reached all adult citizens over twenty-one. In the wake of this success, in 1923 Alice Paul drafted and began campaigning for the ratification of an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to guarantee federal protection under the law for both sexes. Although a few states ratified the ERA, the momentum of the suffrage movement slowed, and soon the Depression and World War II led Congress and the public to focus on more immediate and pressing concerns.
–The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects,
Richard Kurin
Based on the passage, which event or events caused Alice Paul to begin campaigning for the federal ERA?
Answer:
the passage of the 19th Amendment
Explanation:
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution bans the federal government and its states from denying residents of the United States the right to vote on the grounds of their gender, thereby recognizing women's right to vote.
Should people in life-or-death situations be held accountable for their actions?
(use the hunger games as an example)
It depends on how and why they put their self through that life-or-death situation. If it was like a bank robbery and that person was the victim, I don't know see why they would need to be held accountable? but if they caused the bank robbery because of a situation they were in, then yeah?
Explanation:
am I understanding the question right?
The description of the dead bodies on the floor with the children crying is an example of what literary device
Answer:
Figurative Language?
Just what I think...
which two pieces of evidence in paragraph 6 tell you that dickens was extremely popular in america
Oxford Progressive English book
1123
Unit 2: Pottermania hits the global High Street
Explanation:
where is the paragraph can you send the paragraph too so we know what we have to find
There never was a time when the world was without fire, but there was a time when men did not know how to kindle fire; and after they learned how to kindle one, it was a long, long time before they learned how to kindle one easily. In these days we can kindle a fire without any trouble, because we can easily get a match; but we must remember that the match is one of the most wonderful things in the world, and that it took men thousands of years to learn how to make one. Let us learn the history of this familiar little object, the match.
Fire was first given to man by nature itself. When a forest is set on fire by cinders from a neighboring volcano, or when a tree is set ablaze by a thunderbolt, we may say that nature strikes a match. In the early history of the world, nature had to kindle all the fires, for man by his own effort was unable to produce a spark. The first method, then, of getting fire for use was to light sticks of wood at a flame kindled by nature—by a volcano, perhaps, or by a stroke of lightning. These firebrands were carried to the home and used in kindling the fires there. The fire secured in this way was carefully guarded and was kept burning as long as possible. But the flame, however faithfully watched, would sometimes be extinguished. A sudden gust of wind or a sudden shower would put it out. Then a new firebrand would have to be secured, and this often meant a long journey and a deal of trouble.
In 1827, John Walker, a druggist in a small English town, tipped a splint with sulphur, chlorate of potash, and sulphid of antimony, and rubbed it on sandpaper, and it burst into flame. The druggist had discovered the first friction-chemical match, the kind we use to-day. It is called friction-chemical because it is made by mixing certain chemicals together and rubbing them. Although Walker's match did not require the bottle of acid, nevertheless it was not a good one. It could be lighted only by hard rubbing, and it sputtered and threw fire in all directions. In a few years, however, phosphorus was substituted on the tip for antimony, and the change worked wonders. The match could now be lighted with very little rubbing, and it was no longer necessary to have sandpaper upon which to rub it. It would ignite when rubbed on any dry surface, and there was no longer any sputtering. This was the phosphorus match, the match with which we are so familiar.
What is the main idea of this text?
Answer:
fire
Explanation:
12. We set off soon. We will arrive soon.
-> The sooner ………
13. The joke is good. The laughter is loud.
-> The better ……………………………………………….……..
14. She gets fat. She feels tired.
-> The fatter ……………………………………………….………
15. As he gets older, he wants to travel less.
-> The older ……………………………………………….………
16. The children are excited with the difficult games.
-> The more ……………………………………………….………
17. People dive fast. Many accidents happen.
-> The faster ……………………………………………….………
18. I meet him much. I hate him much
-> The more ……………………………………………….………
19. My boss wo
5 days ago — 12. We set off soon. We will arrive soon. -> The sooner ……… 13. The joke is good. ... 14. She gets fat. She feels tired. -> The fatter …
i'm good
slogan for department of labor
Answer:
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work The motto of the American Federation of Labor.
Explanation:
Which of the following is not something the pirates find after following the map in chapters 31-34 of Treasure Island?
A. A broken pickaxe
B. A large hole
C. An empty treasure chest
D. Two guineas
Based on this proclamation,how could americans supporting each other bring america closer to Dr. Kings promise land of equality and opportunity ?\.
Answer:
According to Dr. King's declaration, Americans may assist one another in moving America closer to the "promised land" of equality and opportunity by strengthening Americans' capabilities by mutual assistance during times of need; this is shown in the last paragraph of the reading.
Read the passage.
I must close now. But before closing I am impelled to mention one other point in your statement that troubled me profoundly. You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping “order” and “preventing violence.” I don’t believe you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its angry violent dogs literally biting six unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I don’t believe you would so quickly commend the policemen if you would observe their ugly and inhuman treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you would watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you would see them slap and kick old Negro men and young Negro boys; if you will observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together. I’m sorry that I can’t join you in your praise for the police department.
In his “Letter from Birmingham City Jail,” Dr. King uses the phrase I don’t believe . . . twice. Which rhetorical device is he using?
balance
antithesis
emotion
parallelism
This would be an example of parallelism. Examples of parallelism is "I hope to go to the park today. I hope to get my test back. I hope to get a good grade". The words "I hope" is repeated. That is why it would be parallelism. Parallelism is the repetition of parts of a sentence. Hope that helps.
Were....play football
Advantages and Disadvantages of racism?
The volume of a TV box needs to be 30.000 cubic centimeters. If the length is 10 less than four times the height and the width is less than the height, what is the required height of the box? PLS HELP I was hold h=40cm BUT HOWW?
The height of the TV box is 40 centimeters
The given parameters are:
Volume (V) = 30,000 cubic centimeters
Length (L) = 4 * Height (H) - 10
Width (W) < Height (H)
From the above parameters, we have:
V = 30000
L = 4H - 10
W < H
The volume of a box is calculated as:
V = LWH
Substitute known values
(4H - 10) * W * H = 30000
Divide through by 2
(2H - 5) * WH = 15000
Using a graphing calculator, we have the following solution
(H,W) = (40,5)
By comparison, we have:
H = 40 and W = 5
Hence, the height of the TV box is 40 centimeters
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Julius a young father has long term goal of getting a certificate in plumbing in one year.with the certification he will get more work and receive a higher pay that could help him send his son to a pre school what short term goals should julius have to help him achieve his long term goal?
Answer:
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Explanation:
Some short term goals Julius have to do to achieve long term goal are:
1) He should learn the thorough techniques of plumbing
2) He should practice these techniques, as practice makes perfect.
3) Over practice, he should note down his progress such as speed, efficiency and product of his work
what time is julius jones scheduled to be executed
Answer:
16:00 local time (2200 GMT) at the state penitentiary in McAlester.
Explanation:
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