older versions of black music is better than the modern day black music. The first Africans transported to this country came from a variety of ethnic groups with a long history of distinct and cultivated musical traditions. African Americans used homemade drums and banjos to communicate among themselves. In fact‚ back the 1700s‚ drums had been banned on many slave plantations. Slaves on southern plantations had their own musical styles‚ which later evolved into gospel‚ blues‚ and what is now known as
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Graft report Patellar graft The patellar tendon bone-tendon-bone graft has been the "gold standard" graft choice for ACL reconstructions since it became common practice in the mid-1980. It has been used extensively by surgeons since that time and still remains the graft of choice for a high number of orthopedists who perform this surgery regularly. The patellar tendon graft has consistently demonstrated excellent surgical outcomes with a 90-95% success rate in terms of returning to pre-injury level
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1. What were some of the reasons that African Americans migrated from the South to the North during the first few decades of the twentieth century. During the first few decades of the twentieth century‚ many African-Americans migrated to the North because they felt the North would offer better opportunities than the South. After the Civil War and the Emancipation‚ the South was experiencing an economic depression being that the cotton industry experienced several disasters. • First‚ after the
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and Methodists into northern and southern branches in the mid-1840s. The war itself had split other denominations. While Catholics throughout the country remained in the Catholic Church‚ most Southern Catholics supported the South. Episcopalian leaders from throughout the South met in Augusta‚ Georgia‚ and voted to return to the U.S church. Southerners who were Methodists‚ Baptists and Presbyterians stayed in their separate churches. Before the Civil War‚ most blacks belonged to the churches of their
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African Americans Progress At the end of the Civil War I do believe that the African Americans made significant progress. They may have had to fight for their freedom as well go through a lot of unnecessary steps‚ but at the end it was all worth it. The reconstruction plan‚ that President Lincoln announced in 1863‚ however did not issue Africans Americans with creating new institutions and important legal precedents that would help them survive. The blacks had little power to withstand their
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The Era of Good Feelings and Transformation of American Politics With the War of 1812 concluded as a stalemate through the Treaty of Ghent‚ America turned its focus off the foreign policy main frame for a while and instead centered on the domestic agenda. The aftereffects of the War of 1812 were initially great indeed; the decision of antebellum status quo disgraced the Federalist Party by displaying their lack of any gain from the war. Further worsening the Federalists’ cause‚ news of the Hartford
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African Americans: Historical Journey from 1865 to the Present HIS: 204: American History Since 1865 Professor Lisa Burgin July 14‚ 2014 Introduction The African American journey has been one of trials and tribulations which they suffered greatly to achieve freedom and success. The battle has led the citizens of this nation to have witnessed the first African American President of the United States. The journey that has brought African Americans to the present situation has
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After the devastation left from the Civil War‚ many field owners looked for new ways to replace their former slaves with field hands for farming and production use. From this need for new field hands came sharecroppers‚ a "response to the destitution and disorganized" agricultural results of the Civil War (Wilson 29). Sharecropping is the working of a piece of land by a tenant in exchange for a portion of the crops that they bring in for their landowners. These farmhands provided their labor‚
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south joined the union they should help them reconstruct. Notherners no only wanted to help them reconstruct but also help the slaves to be free. That’s how the Reconstruction began. During Reconstruction the south was very displeased that the norther people were coming in to their terrirtory to help the blacks. Sotherners believed that the blacks did not deserve to be free‚ so they ended the Reconstruction with violence. The south was responsible for the end of Reconstruction due to the creation of
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The period of post Reconstruction through the beginning of the 20th century was a turning point for the agricultural economy of America. Farmers made up the backbone of the American economy at this time‚ therefore their success was crucial. This industry was the direct recipient of the technological advancements made throughout the Industrial Revolution that aided in massive and efficient production. However‚ the government’s focus was aimed elsewhere as the industrialized society of the North soon
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