I. The extreme success of cotton and slavery as a process to make it made it widely popular in many of the southern states: Maryland, Del, Vir, N/S Carolina, Geo, Ken, Tenn., Miss, Ala, Mississippi, Louis, Ark, Florida, Texas…
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The museum that I chose to visit is located in Tunica, Mississippi it has a short standing tale of important facts in regards to Tunica. The name Tunica comes from the Tunica Indians that lived there with the Chickasaw Indians. Even though the building is small it leaves a big impact of things for you to think about. Why, I was there I found out that the Chickasaw and Tunica Indians had possession of the land in the early 700B.C-A.D.1000. They produce pottery, and growing crops from the land along with cotton and other things. The growth from the land was used to make trades for their needs across eastern North America to survive.…
Myrlie Evers worked for the conviction of the white supremacist who murdered her husband, heroic civil rights leader Medgar Evers, through two hung juries and over thirty years. "Ghosts of Mississippi teems with the carefully recreated details of a relentless quest for justice and features special appearances by three children of Medgar Evers and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter Yolanda."(Rob Reiner) The three main characters in this movie were Myrlie Evers, Bobby Delaughter, and Bryon de la Beckwith. "Myrlie Evers, the faithful and strong wife of Medgar Evers, was his secretary for the Mississippi NAACP and supported Medgar in all of his demonstrations, boycotts, protests, speeches, and etc. She was a devoted wife who was proud of her heroic husband, but also lived in fear for Medgar’s life."(Medgar Evers)…
During the 17th and 18th centuries, settlement expansion skyrocketed among British colonies with varied immigration pattern creating quite the contrast between the middle and southern colonies. Thousands of Europeans begin flooding the New World for religious freedom, in search of wealth, or for their own personal exploit. Many came to the Middle Colonies for liberation from persecution and for business ventures that would not be possible with primogeniture prominent in much of Europe; meanwhile, those who resettled in the Southern Colonies were there for more commercial success or to flee from the consequences of debt, like the people who lived in Georgia. Numerous cultural differences contributed from immigrants shaped the economy, government, and overall character of each colony.…
The Mound Builders in the Mississippi River Valley…
Daniel Rowland is associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky and has published numerous articles on art, architecture, and political culture. Dr. James Klotter is a professor of History at Georgetown College and the State Historian of Kentucky. He is the author or coauthor of many books on Kentucky and Appalachian History. Lexington was a cultural center of Kentucky and the essays in the book show its significance in antebellum America. This collection shows the influential years of Kentucky cultural development and particularly sets out to understand the development of Lexington and its cultural accomplishments.…
The absolute tragedy of 1927 lacerated an abundance of homes and families. It was thee most destructive river flood in the history of the United States of America. There were 27 thousand square miles overwhelmed by at least 30 feet of water and affected 63 hundred thousand people affected. Ninety-four percent of the affected people lived in Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and almost all of the Mississippi Delta. Over 2 hundred-thousand African Americans along the Mississippi River had been forced to move to relief camps.…
Bath was the first town in North Carolina to be settled in 1705 as European settlers moved across the land to be near rivers. Bath is located by the Pamlico river. This allowed easy access by boat, the most popular mode of transportation in those times because of a lack of roads. But, the land had already been inhabited by Indian tribes who did not take well to being forced to share their land with foreigners. As the settlers took over more and more land, they were taking away popular areas where the tribes built their homes and hunting grounds. This caused even more indignation towards the Europeans. As the Europeans wanted more land, the Indian tribes were pushed out of their homes by whatever means necessary.…
Louisiana is state with a rich history and a colorful culture. To really understand the culture of Louisiana you need to understand the history of the state and the many different people who settled there. The existing culture of Louisiana was slightly altered every time a different group of people inhabited state. Each of the different nationalities that settled in Louisiana brought their own set of beliefs, customs and traditions with them and over time little bits of each were absorbed into the culture that all of the previous settlers had established. As individual nationalities settled in different parts of Louisiana each society took on their own characteristics that were specific to their culture.…
Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting in part of the descendants of Acadian exiles—French-speakers from L'Acadie in what are now the Maritimes of Eastern Canada…
Ghosts of Mississippi is a movie about the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Evers was shot and killed in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 12, 1963. Medgar Evers pulled into his driveway of his Jackson home as he was getting out of his car he was shot in the back by Byron De la Beckwith. Beckwith was a known member of the Ku Klux Klan. Beckwith was 42 years old when he shot Evers, but he was not convicted of the crime until he was 73 years old. Beckwith bragged for 31 years that he had gotten away with killed Evers. This movie stays true to what actually happened in history, it gives accurate accounts of what the Evers family went through, how Byron De la Beckwith got away with the crime for so long, and how they finally brought him to justice.…
The second largest mountain site in America is the Appalachian Mountains that extend from the tip of Canada to the northern half of Alabama that runs for over fifteen hundred miles. These mountains are divided up into three regions, the Blue Ridge, the Great Valley, and the Ridge-and-Valley Province. There are people that lives up in these regions and help take care of the land to allow it to keep its beauty by keeping the environment clean by respecting the land. The Appalachian culture is not well known of within people in the United States; at least for myself I never heard about them till this trip. This paper will help expose this culture to everyone based on what they stand for and how they live day by day.…
The Seminole Indian culture has been expressed in a number of ways, including art, basketry, and beadwork. However, did you know that their culture has been shaped for at least 12,000 years? As this tribe’s culture was formed, the Seminole became famous for things as simple as their houses. Their bravery and intelligence became known throughout the United States. As you look within their culture, you can’t help but understand why so many people marveled at their simplest items. Even today, their culture is known well throughout the nation. The Seminole Indians were unique people who had interesting houses, clothing, and wars with the United States.…
Mississippi’s first people were descendants of people traveled across the being s when it was frozen 1000’s of years ago. Eventually there people made their way across the Americas and settle in various places to become the Native American tribes we know today. In Mississippi there were three major tribes where are the Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw. Each tribe settled in a different part of what became the state of Mississippi through the group was different from the others, they all suffered…