40+Acres+&+Mule

// 40 Acres & Mule //

What we studied that lead up to the 40 Acres and Mule was the Reconstructing Society that was to help the united states the civil war. After the Civil War everything was destroyed in the battle. William had destroyed 100 millions worth of Georgia and South Carolina property. The economic effects of the war hurt the south. Since the war messed up the land, the slaves couldn't really do nothing with land because everything was destroyed in the war. So William wanted to help the freed African American slaves that help him during the war with the 40 Acres & Mule.

The 40 Acres and Mule didn't follow the American path because it ended very quickly by new president of the United States. Johnson didn't like that the freed slaves were getting their own land. So Andrew Johnson allowed the white people get their land back. This event or law went into a new direction because now we don't have that in America. Now in the 21 century, there is a lot of people who don't work farm land because they have to support their family instead of working with business, playing in pro sports, or having well paying job. Now you might see blacks and whites people working a farm now but mostly in the south.

I think this event fits around the middle of the the American Story of our history because it happen when William Sherman was attacking the south during the civil war. During this war Sherman did some good and bad things when he was attacking the Confederate. Even though he destroyed mostly everything and the black people could not farm anymore. He killed one-fifth of the adult white male population in the war. Also a lot of African American died because of fighting with the union or working for the Confederate in the labor camp. So, this important belongs around in the middle of the American Story of our history. Near the end of the Civil war African American that was freed during received a promise gift of 40 Acres and a mule. This gift was to help the African American live a better life. General Sherman seen that the African American needed help. Since the African Americans help him he wanted to repay them with the support they gave him during the Civil War. The African American farmed their plots until August 1865 when Andrew the President stop all this and gave the white people their land back. Then the white people would be able to evict the former slaves. Then two years later Thaddeus Stevens would try to help the African American.

In 1867 Thaddeus try to make a bill that would let the slaves get 40 acres of land and a $100. Then another person try to help the African American which was John Coyer who from Michigan. He tried to make a bill that would allow them to study the impact of slavery that happen in 1989. 10 years later John Coyer made another bill that could make the government apology for slavery. Since the bill could not be pass as law they did not really mean anything. Then later in 2000 a group would study the issue to bring the suite to the government and business that was profited from slavery.



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Danzer, Gerald A. __The Americans__. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.

__Reconstruction The Second Civil War__. 19 Dec. 2003. PBS. 8 June 2009 .