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Particularly in the southern colonies, education tended to be reserved for the gentry and upper-class people (plantation owners mainly). Slaves were not educated; in fact, it was illegal to teach slaves to read or write. This stemmed from the fact that a large portion of education involved the Bible, slaves who read the Bible could be expected to convert to Christianity, and Christians are forbidden to enslave one another by their religion. Significant social and economic inequality persisted in the South well into the 20th century.
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Roughly 40 percent of Americans lived in cities, and the number was climbing. These large city populations caused crime rates to rise, and disease to spread rapidly. As a result of unsanitary living conditions, diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever struck urban areas with increasing frequency.
Answer: Franklin Roosevelt gave his campaign speech on October 24, 1932. In his speech, he focused on the several problems facing agriculture and farmers.
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Some of the problems he identified were facing the nation were:
- high taxation of farmers, and low price of agricultural products which kept the agricultural industry in the great depression
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- Complicated data gathering without enough action in Washington. There was also a general red tape around agriculture in which political secretaries of agriculture were not people farmers could identify with
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- A bill had been passed which increased the funds to buy stock in the federal land bank from $100,000,000 to $125,000,000 but the amount was not properly administered
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- Several older millions of acres of land had been cleared for agriculture instead of being left to produce forest crops
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During the Middle Kingdom, quite a few advancements had occurred. The most interesting advancement that I read about was the emergence of Egyptian literature. The texts provide us with a firmer grasp on Egyptian life such as the social unrest, famine, and every day life. A variety of texts developed over this time period. Egyptian literature was not only used for entertainment in story form, but it was used for many other things such as coffin texts, instructions, and discourses. More Egyptians were able to write and read with the establishment of the first school during the 12th dynasty. Those who were in lower ranks may have been able to read as well because coffin texts were found in graves of private individuals and not just in the ones for the royal family, as pyramid texts were during the Old Kingdom.
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