A president can have a impact on reform and progressiveness. It can be done by starting or strengthening programs that improve lives.
Before the Civil War, or <em>Antebellum era, </em>the south was mainly an agricultural region, the major southern crops were:
Cotton on the first place, followed by grain, tobacco and sugar.
These are placed in order of the amount of land that was devoted to producing each one of them.
On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing.
Knights of Labor: An Early Labor Organization. ... The organization believed that its predecessors had failed by limiting membership; the Knights proposed to organize both skilled and unskilled workers in the same union and opened their doors to blacks and women.
hummm. ok.
So this is talking about the Louisiana purchase I'm guessing.
From what I can understand this is saying the laws back then didn't have a say on weather or not the president can purchase large amounts of land.
The Indians were forced to change their customs to suit the normal civilian.
Answer: Well this passage doesn't say much about the early life of the U.S. so I will go from my own. When the Louisiana purchased began the president sent out twenty or so explores two called Lewis and Clark to explore the land.
The president then said if you want to move west the land is cheap (I think like $1.25 an acre) so emigrants moved west and well as the citizen's. Most people walked along the Oregon Trail. The majority of people walked barefoot and without wagons. Some had wagons but used it to carry their stuff and could ride on them. So the 2170 mile trail began with mountains and rivers to cross. Most people died and it was rare to make it to the other side. With the new settlements in the West people found gold. Everyone went rushing to California to hopefully be rich. Most couldn't find enough to support themselves and few made profit.
During this time emigrants also came because of the potato famine and left their home town. They made little income and had a hard life.
<em><u>If this answer is completely off track (Which I think it is) tell me so I can change it.</u></em>