Evicted

Sharecropping is when a former slave stay on his owner's plantation, living in their own house. The disadvantage is that they have to live under the slave owner's rules and regulations. They had a lot of things to under go such as growing and harvesting crops. If the crops died they had to pay the owner money for wasting the crops. To harvest those crops they had to pay money to get the tools for them. They had a choice to take out loans which mostly everybody did, but even with that they had to pay that off. They did not get any money from any where so with all the things they had to pay most of them found themselves in debt. Not knowing how to get out of that they had to be evicted. I chose this picture because it shows how the African Americans would be after they were kicked out of sharecropping. The viewer should understand that sharecropping was really hard to do and it came with out a lot of consequences and struggle.

Reconstruction

The effect the Reconstruction had on them was that they were free but were treated like slaves. They didnt live in the same house as the slave owner but they did live on the slave owner's plantation. Also they did have to live under their rules and the slave owner's contract. The contract stated that they would have to harvest crops and if they didnt they would have to pay a fine. On top of that they had to pay for the tools that they were using. So they would be debt cause of all the money they needed but didnt have. They were better off before the reconstruction yeah they were owned but they wouldnt be debt or anything like that. After the reconstruction they were still being controlled by the slave owners and were under their rules and regulations.

Government

Thoreau said "that government is best which governs least." I think he meant that a government that does not do much people will want more of. They don't want a government that controls them all the time. I do not agree with that. A lot of people want a government that knows what they are doing and for them to do their job right. If you govern more then more people would be wanting that and leaning towards that more.

Stereotypes

Stereotypes are widely used in society because thats what we are used to. In history we taught that a type of person looked one specific way. For example, we learned that slaves always were on then plantation and they were always chained. Which wasnt always the case some slaves were kept inside and if they were on plantations they werent chained. Another type oif stereotype there is how the slave owners looked, they said to wear a suit and a tall hat and live in a white colonial home. Which wasnt the case if anything they wore a suit but not a hat, and their houses werent white they were probably brown houses.

History matters

History matters for many reasons. Its always important to know about the past so you know what has got the world or even your family to the place or stage you are now. For example, its important to know what it took for you to get to where you are now. Like if your family lived during the depression, its an intresting fact to know and to even share with your friends or even with your class. Also, if your parents or family members have pictures that really cool to see and to know about how they got the pictures. If they lived through something like that its nice to know the truth about it espically from their point of view.

Lies

When Volaire said "History is the lie commonly agreed upon" he meant many things. One thing he meant was that we have been told many things that have been false in our history class because teachers go by history books and a lot things in history books may not be the right thing or they are by one point of view. Which means that the people that write stuff in history books are winners, people that won or know the topic very well. SO you never get the truth out of the situastion because someone could lie about the whole thing. On top of that we are being taught it, so its a lie that we learn and agree with it.