HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Stratification, Progressive Education, Sharecropping
13 Oct 2016
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History is an argument about the past backed up by evidence. Sam houston was not some glorious fool cautious, thoughtful, wise. Take the long view and put things in context. (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1011)(cid:1004)"s-1930 the (cid:271)otto(cid:373) pa(cid:396)t of so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) (cid:894)do(cid:374)"t o(cid:449)(cid:374) la(cid:374)d (cid:271)ut (cid:449)o(cid:396)k the la(cid:374)d(cid:895) ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374) increasingly difficult time in agriculture and are being squeezed out. Immigration increases, changes, comes from different places: (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1006)(cid:1004)"s changes in national law and economic change that immigration from abroad begins to alter, migration in the united states continues. 1887 more people lived in counties. Inclined to continue to grow cotton: spread cultivation of cotton further west every time a new railroad opened into a new county. More cotton, white supremacy, celebration of confederate past, slave holding culture. Social and cultural change (from self-sufficiency to a market economy) 1930 world of making things for yourself is gone. Move of self sufficiency to market: downside: when prices collapse. People better equipped to ride fluctuations of market.
