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  2. Southern Homestead Act of 1866 - Wikipedia

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    The land was initially in parcels of 80-acre (0.32 km 2) (half-quarter section) until June 1868, and thereafter parcels of 160-acre (0.65 km 2) (quarter section, or one quarter of a square mile), and homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land for five years before acquiring full ownership.

  3. Remembering Reconstruction - Wikipedia

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    Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era, published in 2017 by Louisiana State University Press, edited by Carole Emberton and Bruce E. Baker, with an introduction by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, is a collection of ten essays by historians of the Reconstruction era who examine the different collective memories of different social groups from the time of ...

  4. Massacre of Glencoe - Wikipedia

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    Glencoe was a popular topic with 19th-century poets, notably Sir Walter Scott's "Massacre of Glencoe". [48] It was used as a subject by Thomas Campbell and George Gilfillan , as well as by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in her 1823 work "Glencoe", T. S. Eliot 's "Rannoch, by Glencoe" and "Two Poems from Glencoe" by Douglas Stewart .

  5. The Massacre of Glencoe - Wikipedia

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    The Massacre of Glencoe is a 1971 British historical drama film starring James Robertson Justice, Andrew Crawford and William Dysart. [1] The film, which depicts the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe in Scotland, was directed by Scottish film-maker Austin Campbell. It marked the final film role for Robertson Justice.

  6. Memorial reconstruction - Wikipedia

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    There was debate about which plays may have been surreptitiously recorded by shorthand during a performance, which by memorial reconstruction and which by a combination of the two. Shakespeare's contemporary Thomas Heywood appeared to complain about the former practice when he attacked "mangled" versions of his works "copied only by the ear". [6]

  7. Reconstructive memory - Wikipedia

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    Reconstructive memory is a theory of memory recall, in which the act of remembering is influenced by various other cognitive processes including perception, imagination, motivation, semantic memory and beliefs, amongst others.

  8. Reconstruction Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Reconstruction Acts, or the Military Reconstruction Acts (March 2, 1867, 14 Stat. 428-430, c.153; March 23, 1867, 15 Stat. 2-5, c.6; July 19, 1867, 15 Stat. 14-16, c.30; and March 11, 1868, 15 Stat. 41, c.25), were four statutes passed during the Reconstruction Era by the 40th United States Congress addressing the requirement for Southern States to be readmitted to the Union.

  9. Reconstruction Treaties - Wikipedia

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    The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations had a single Reconstruction Treaty, the Choctaw and Chickasaw Treaty of Washington (1866). [34] in which they sold land west of the 98 longitude to the United States for $300,000. Much of this land was previously "leased" to the Federal Government and was the home of other Indian tribes.