The Louisiana Purchase helped to double the size of the country and provided control of the Mississippi River. The Louisiana Purchase was a massive land purchase by the U.S. from France under President Thomas Jefferson's administration.
Politeness, acknowledgement, curiosity, and persuasion.
It marked the start of the American War of Independence
Stalin's 5 year plan had different affects on industry and agriculture.
For one, the five year plan included the collectivization of farmers all across the Soviet Union. This means that the government controlled these farms and how much food they made. This negatively impacted farmers across the country, as those who refused to follow Stalin's lead were executed or forced into exile. Along with this, the five year plan lead to a famine in the Soviet Union.
As for industry, Stalin's 5 year plan helped turn the Soviet Union into a industrial powerhouse. This shift in focusing on industry rather than agricultural marked a huge shift in the Soviet society.
There were several ideas from the Reconstruction and I will focus on:
- 13th Amendment - <u>Very effective </u>
- Sharecropping <u>- needed revising </u>
The Republicans in Congress were able to pass and then ratify the 13th Amendment which:
- Abolished slavery thereby freeing black people
- Allows for Congress to come against other forms of slavery for instance, trafficking.
This was very effective as it ended a dark chapter in American history and paved the way for equality of races.
A disastrous policy that was implemented during Reconstruction was Sharecropping.
Sharecropping was a way by which White landowners kept poor Whites and Black people as legal labor. It involved:
- Lending land to a farmer for payment in the form of harvested crops
- Landowners controlling what the farmer pays them
- Farmers getting into debt because they had to buy seeds and tools from the landowners and interest kept accruing even when they could not harvest enough crops to pay back.
- Farmers being forced to remain on the land to work off their debt.
Sharecropping kept a lot of Black people in bondage and ensured White landowners had a labor force just like during slavery.
This could have been solved by laws being passed that allowed Sharecroppers to change their profession and go into other jobs where they would then have enough money to pay back their debt.
In conclusion, the 13th Amendment allowed the nation to start anew with all people being free but the practice of Sharecropping damaged that in some areas.
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