NRA

The Effect of The NRA in Urban Life

The NRA or National Rifle Association was founded by two northern Civil War soldiers because they thought that the Civil War was so long because most urban northerners could not fire a weapon very well.  The first president was Ambrose Burnside, who was an old northern army general.  In the early stages of the NRA it mainly focused on firearm safety, accuracy, and recreational shooting.

From the start to today the NRA has been trying to educate and familiarize the urban citizens of the United States with guns.  Early leaders of the NRA noticed that U.S. citizens needed to be more familiar with guns.  To help citizens the U.S. government agreed with the NRA about their thoughts of getting urban people more familiar with guns.  So, the NRA and the government were both very influential in the decision making of laws and such about guns.  Both of them knew that to have a stronger military then it would be better to have every soldier know how to shoot a gun before they came into the military.

The U.S. government wanted to play a role not by just their influ
ence through the NRA.  So the government had almost organized fifty different rifle clubs that were not part of the NRA by 1907.  In each of these rifle clubs in 1907 the average amount was about three thousand members per club.  Around 1904 the government had nearly three hundred thousand boys being instructed in rifle shooting throughout the U.S.  The government was taking a huge step in the process of getting more citizens familiar with guns.

The NRA mainly focused on targeting the youth of the United State because they could make a better future.  In 1903 the NRA  targeted youth by going through colleges, rifle clubs, and military camps to start competitive shooting. This way the youth would want to start using guns while teaching them the safety of them as well.  By 1906 there were more than two hundred competitors competing with in the NRA.  This would be a great start to getting the youth of the United States stronger with guns.

The main way that the NRA targeted the younger people was by getting competitive shooting started in the schools around the U.S.  In 1909, the NRA held the first national youth shooting competition.  It was called the Interscholastic Rifle Match, it was for any school that took their top ten shooters to the competition.  Each shooter got ten shots from fifty yards in three different positions.  With this contest it gave the idea for kids to have another way to have a competition to get them to start using guns more.  

For the NRA to  improve the knowledge of guns in  the U.S. it took a long process to get to the way that Americans know about guns.

1st president of the NRA, Ambrose Burnside

NRA logo

Sources

 http://www.alternet.org

This site helped me understand how the NRA became the way that it was from the start to how it was when it is today.

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http://www.nrahq.org

  This site gave me the information and the back round knowledge to fully get what the NRA stood for at the time.

http://timerime.com

This site provided me with a timeline of important events In the NRA or that the NRA was associated with, giving me the topics that led me to my points throughout my essay.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov  

This newspaper article gave me the information about the governments role in the creation and choices of the NRA, to help make the changes that were needed within the U.S.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

This newspaper article provided me with the start of the NRAs first real outreach towards children and firearms throughout the U.S.

Carnegie Questions

Carnegie believed that education was the way for people to progress in the world, instead of just giving but giving them the knowledge needed to do it on their own.  You can tell this by the way that Carnegie gives and creates money for his institutions that all he wants is to benefit the world.  I think that the way that Carnegie used his money was a great idea because it helps people get started off better before they need the other help.  I would do almost what Carnegie did, by giving the money to foundations that prepare kids not to get in a situation where the help from other organizations.  

This photo was taken at a Minnesota Vikings football of Levi Horn during one of his drills. 

This photo is a health center in Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne-Montana Reservation where Levi is from.

This is a picture of Levi Horn when he was on the Chicago Bears.

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History

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            One Native American by the name of Levi Horn had a dream to one day play in the NFL and become a role model in the Native American community.

   Levi Horn was born in the Northern Cheyenne- Montana Tribe and raised in Lame Deer located on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Living on a reservation is very hard. Most people that live on the reservation are very poor including Levi’s family. The reservation where he was from was the worst reservation because of the health care system that was in Lame deer in the area that Levi lived in. Levi knew that reservations were not a very good place to live in from experience, so he wanted to do something about it.

   Levi got recruited by the University of Oregon but left very fast because of playing time to the University of Montana near the reservation where he grew up. This was not common for many Native Americans to go to college. This was the start for Levi to become a role model for the Native American community.

   But Levi wanted to become more of an influence by doing something that almost no native American have done or are currently doing and that was to be part of the National Football League (NFL). Once he made his way into the NFL he knew that it was his chance to be able to make a difference.

   To make a difference in the native community, Levi went back to reservations to talk to kids about how it doesn’t matter if you are a Native American is that if you work hard then your capable of doing anything He also wanted to help the overall community because he knew that the conditions of reservations are so bad.

http://www.ndnsports.com/2012/08/07/vikings-ol-hoping-to-help-native-americans/

This was the most important site that I used for this project it gave me the most information that I could use for my project.  It gave me information about where he was from to his life in college to how he got to be in the NFL.

 http://www.ihs.gov/billings/index.cfm?module=bao_su_n_cheyenne

This site provided me with the information about Levi's home reservation.

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/03/15/native-offensive-lineman-levi-horn-cheyenne-out-shock-world-148201

This site gave me the an idea about what happened throughout his life to get to where he is today.

The West

There are many differences between the real historical cowboy vs. the popular imagination cowboy.  The real historical cowboy was a low paid or no job worker with almost nothing to their name.  While the more popular well known cowboys like in the movies consisted of the freedom to do whatever they want, living in nature, always fighting or gun fights.  There is a huge difference between these two forms of a cowboy consisting from a low paid worker to a person that most kids wanted to be. 

In the western life the cowboys took the focus away from everything else to people that was an important part of history.  The Chinese coming into america was important because they took jobs and later in California took up ten percent of the population.  Also the Chinese Americans help create the railroads because they took up the majority of the railroad workers.  

One way that the cowboys was idealized the way it was because of movies and books had talked about the cowboys in this way because it was more interesting like in the book and movie called The Virginian.  These movies and books had created the mind set that the american cowboy had consisted of the free person who carried around a gun and fought Indians all the time.   That is the main reason of how cowboys were portrayed the way that they were.

I did not know as much as I thought about the Post- Civil War until this unit because I was not taught in that much detail ever.  I did know that about the 13th, 14th, and 15th, amendment were. Also i knew that Lincoln did not want to punish the South but i never thought that he stopped the south from being punished because i thought that everybody followed what he did.  I knew that a lot of the South was destroyed after the war.

What Really stood out to me was how Booth really didn't help the South but really hurt them by killing Lincoln. It is important to know how your country got started is very important because it is good to know how your country turned out the way it is today. also how it changed to become the way you see it and what made it that way.