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Homestead: a house, especially a farmhouse, and outbuildings.
Exodusters: a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. It was the first general migration of blacks following the Civil War.
Sod duster: a farmer or farm worker who plows the land
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion organized in 1676. by Virginia settlers, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. The concrete reason to start Rebellion was Governor's refusal to answer on a series of Native Americans attacks on the frontier settlements. Also, many colonists had an ambition to attack the western frontiers and take away the land from Indians, but they were stopped by Berkeley. Some historians also say that the cause of Rebellion was Bacon's power play against Berkeley and his favoritism towards certain members of court.
C--Television is how most Americans became aware of the Civil Rights Movement.
Television brought the movement and the reaction of police officers into the living rooms of every American. It is easy to dismiss the writings of people you don't know but to see the evidence of abuse and inequality is harder to ignore.
