Dec 16, 2009

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule | Ideas for Reports and Papers

1. Research the circumstances surrounding the assassination of President Lincoln. What similarities have others found in the the assassinations of McKinley and Kennedy.

2. Compare and contrast the land provision programs of Reconstruction and Homestead Act.

3. The Bibbs family is hit by typhoid. What are its symptoms, its cause, and treatment? Is it a serious health threat today?

4. Freed slaves were not considered equal to their white neighbors. In the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision, the highest court ruled that separate schools for...