United States home front during World War II. The United States home front during World War II, supported the war effort in many ways, including a wide range of volunteer efforts and submitting to government-managed rationing and price controls. Everyone agreed that the sacrifices were for the national good "for the duration. " The labor market changed radically.
Peacetime conflicts with respect to race and labor took on a special dimension because of the pressure for national unity. The Hollywood film industry was important for propaganda. Controls and Taxes[edit] Federal tax policy was highly contentious during the war, with President Franklin D. Many controls were put on the economy. Rationalization[edit] Sugar rationing In 1942 a rationing system was begun to guarantee minimum amounts of necessities to everyone (especially poor people) and prevent inflation. To get a classification and a book of rationing stamps, one had to appear before a local rationing board. Personal savings[edit] Labor[edit] Women[edit] Farming[edit] Draft[edit] Anchorage Real Estate & Anchorage Homes For Sale. Massachusett language. History[edit] Pre-colonial history[edit] A wetu, or wigwam, similar to the ones used across southern New England by the Indians. Early colonial period[edit] Indian literacy[edit] The Indian Bible in the Natick dialect helped to destroy indigenous religion, but it also preserved the language and promoted literacy.
Education of the Indians was implemented to train Indians in Eliot's orthography and to return to preach in their local communities. Translation and literature[edit] Extinction[edit] Metacomet, or 'King Philip,' united the Indians against the English, but his defeat by the English signaled an end of support for Indian causes and devastating loss of population. Revival[edit] Classification[edit] Massachusett is a member of the Algic language family, which includes the Wiyot and Yurok languages of the Pacific Northwest with the Algonquian languages spoken from the Rockies eastward to the Atlantic. Unique features of Massachusett[42][edit] Reflexes of PEA *r realized as /n/ Lack of syncope. Wampanoag people. In the beginning of the 17th century, at the time of first contact with the English, the Wampanoag lived in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as within a territory that encompassed current day Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Their population numbered in the thousands due to the richness of the environment and their cultivation of corn, beans and squash. Three thousand Wampanoag lived on Martha's Vineyard alone. From 1616 to 1619 the Wampanoag suffered an epidemic, long suspected to be smallpox, but recent research alternatively theorizes that it was leptospirosis, a bacterial infection also known as Weil's syndrome or 7-day fever. It caused a high fatality rate and nearly destroyed the society. While the tribe largely disappeared from historical records from the late 18th century, its people persisted. Name[edit] Block's map of his 1614 voyage, with the first appearance of the term "New Netherland" Groups of the Wampanoag[edit] Culture[edit] Language and revival[edit] Algonquin people. Range of Algonquins around year 1800 in green Algonquin family in their tent Though known by several names in the past, the most common term "Algonquin" has been suggested to derive from the Maliseet word elakómkwik (IPA: [ɛlæˈɡomoɡwik]): "they are our relatives/allies".[2][3] The much larger heterogeneous group of Algonquian-speaking peoples, who stretch from Virginia to the Rocky Mountains and north to Hudson Bay, was named after the tribe.
Most Algonquins live in Quebec. The nine Algonquin bands in that province and one in Ontario have a combined population of about 11,000. (Popular usage reflects some confusion on the point. The term "Algonquin" is sometimes used, in the Catholic Encyclopedia, to refer to all Algonquian-speaking societies, although this is not correct.) Many Algonquins still speak the Algonquin language, called generally Anicinàpemowin or specifically Omàmiwininìmowin. Traditionally, the Algonquins were practitioners of Midewiwin (the right path). History[edit] Civilian Public Service. Civilian Public Service firefighting crew at Snowline Camp near Camino, California, 1945.
The Civilian Public Service (CPS) was a program of the United States govenment that provided conscientious objectors with an alternative to military service during World War II. From 1941 to 1947, nearly 12,000 draftees, willing to serve their country in some capacity but unwilling to perform any type of military service, accepted assignments in work of national importance in 152 CPS camps throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Draftees from the historic peace churches and other faiths worked in areas such as soil conservation, forestry, fire fighting, agriculture, under the supervision of such agencies as the U.S.
Forest Service, the Soil Conservation Service, and the National Park Service. Others helped provide social services and mental health services. The CPS men served without wages and minimal support from the federal government. Background[edit] John T. Experiences of World War I[edit] Great Plains. The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Texas, and Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The Canadian portion of the Plains is known as the Prairies.
Some geographers include some territory of Mexico in the Plains, but many stop at the Rio Grande. The region is known for supporting extensive ranching and agriculture. Usage[edit] The term "Great Plains" is used in the United States to describe a sub-section of the even more vast Interior Plains physiographic division, which covers much of the interior of North America. It also has currency as a region of human geography, referring to the Plains Indians or the Plains States. Boundaries[edit]