Ideas please?

Question

I need to write an article for a newspaper made in 1825-1830
We have already done dengu fever, murder, fires, robbery, cooking, editorial, how to take care of slaves, an article about new states coming in. Anyone have any other ideas


P.S. this is in maryland

Answer 1

Indiginous population

I will not rehearse the long litany of atrocities perpetrated upon the native populations of the Americas, by the so-callled more "civilized" European invaders, but suffice it to say they are legion and to some extent continuing (as in the Indian Trust Fund scandals of the past few years). At least 95% of the indiginous population of North and South America were eliminated from the face of the earth by a combination of ruthless conquest and grinding warfare, enslavement, forced marches, broken treaties and diseases (sometimes deliberately spread) against which the peoples of the "New World" had no defence. The prevailing view of the Europeans who systematically displaced native Americans was that since they were more advanced in weaponry, learning and the componants of "civilization" as they concieved it, this was evidence of their superiority over all nations and peoples who posessed less of these charactaristics - natives around the world were viewed as being sub-human "savages" and "pagans": worshippers of gods and spirits not present in the Christian worldview. The way they seem to have seen it, this inate superiority gave them the "right" to conquer, displace and otherwise ill treat the semi-human inhabitants of all the lands they came across, by whatever means they saw fit. So pervasive was this attitude that even otherwise sensible and even "wise" men and leaders succumbed to its lure: for example, the "founding fathers" of the USA, in the preamble to their country's constitution, referred to "the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions." - pretty strong stuff!! Benjamin Franklin, in 1783 said he preferred buying Indians' land rather than driving them off it because that was like driving "wild beasts" from the forest. He compared Indians to wolves, "both being beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape." During the Indian Wars of the 19th century, the slogan "The only good indian is a dead indian" won elections, and even Teddy Roosevelt showed his true colors when he declared: "I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth." Canada of course doesn't come out lilly -white either: yes we generally made treaties with natives rather than making war against them, and yes we have a vast territory called Nunivut which is run by the Inuit, but for generations, an intensely distructive and misguided campaign of assimilation was waged against at least the more southerly native groups - the notorious "Residential Schools" beign the most perverse portion of the effort to eradicate native culture and languages in an attempt to assimilate the First Nations of Canada into the mainstream of society, which of course was European: native children were taken forcibly from their familes and sent to schools far from their homelands, where they were educated in European history, language, mythology and culture, and forbidden from speaking their own language for years at a time. Ironicaly, when native groups now try to gain a little bit of what they lost back through exploiting the outsiders' gullibility and proclivity to gamble away immoderate sums, many folks are crying foul and saying that they should "play by the same rules" as everyone else. I think we should be VERY happy that they don't follow the rule book many of our forefathers wrote in blood, slavery and genocide in years past.

Answer 2

How about a presidential election report or how to take care of farm animals/crops?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Try going to www.historytoday.com and see if you might be able to come up with some ideas.

Answer 5

maybe you can write something about Indians or the disappearance of that town Roanoake...though I'm not sure when that happended but prob around that time

Answer 6

Go here: http://www.c-span.org/classroom/tocqueville/module3_tocamerica.asp

lots of neat agricultural innovations happened then.

Answer 7

I am not familar with that time period