Rank: 7th largest (87 percent of Nevada's land area is federally controlled) Highest elevation: Boundary Peak in Esmeralda County - 13,140 feet; Lowest elevation: On the Colorado River in Clark County - 470 feet; Nevada Nicknames. Battle-Born State; Sagebrush State; Silver State; The origin of the state's name is Spanish, meaning snow-capped. Facts About Nevada. The presence of Nevada's earliest inhabitants, beginning about 12,400 years ago, is marked by many petroglyphs and archaeological sites.
The modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is often called a Second Reconstruction. Compare the legislative achievements and protest strategies of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.ompare the legislative achievements and protest strategies of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
In the history of the United states reconstruction refers to the period between 1861 and 1865, when efforts were made, after the civil war, to restore the relations between North and the South, to improve status of the blacks and, to restore normalcy in the country.ut this really did not happen. As soon as Reconstruction ended and the Southern states were allowed to do what they wanted, they imposed segregation on blacks and did all sorts of things to prevent them from voting. In addition, Reconstruction failed to help blacks economically.