The South Remained largely agricultural and poor after the
Civil War Farming became more diversified; grain, tobacco, and
fruit crops (small farms replaced large plantations)
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To combat economic isolation, southerners lobbied the federal
government for more rail building
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Sustained economic development requires resources, labor, and
capital investment. (industry is a three legged stool. Public
education was limited in the South, there were few technical and
engineering schools
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Cash Crop products grown not for there use but sold for cash
Cotton remained a staple crop after the Civil War and during the
war many European textile factories found other sources (depressed
prices)
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Farmers Alliance farmers in Texas in the 1870 began to organize
as a group for lower prices for supplies (lobbied for lower
transport cost and loan rates)
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Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments gave many
gains that were stifled by the courts. Voting, Education,
businesses, purchasing power, farmer groups (Federal Laws)
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Ku Klux Klan used terror and violence Civil Rights Act of 1875
congress guaranteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use
public facilities Supreme Court ruled that these were local
issues
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The federal government forced Native Americans west past the
Mississippi to lands they were to have FOREVER during the
1840s.
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Westward expansion would soon dissolved this promise Great
American Desert Native Americans had many diverse cultures
influenced by geography Pacific North west fish and forests South
hunter-gatherers South West arid lands Pueblo people Plains buffalo
(Natives saw themselves as part of nature)
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President Jackson moved the Cherokees off their land in Georgia
and onto the Great Plains (Whites were discouraged form contact
with the Native Americans) Gold and Silver Reservations specific
areas set aside by the government for Indians use
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Sand Creek Massacre 1884 incident in which Colorado militia
killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians (video) Expansion
west by whites time again broke promises made by the federal
government, the United States Peace Commission concluded that
lasting peace would only come when the Indians settled on farms and
became whites.
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Red River War U.S. failed to fulfill the Treaty of Medicine
Lodge, and keep white buffalo hunters off Indian land
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Sitting Bull famed fighter, trained holy man, first ever chief
of the seven bands Battle of the Little Big Horn led by Crazy
Horse, Custer and all of his men were killed
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Chief Joseph led a group of refugees to Canada 1,300 miles
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Wounded Knee sealed the Indians demise after being weakened
more than 100 men women and children were killed
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Assimilated to be absorbed into the main culture of a society
Dawes General Allotment Act replaced the reservation system with an
allotment system. Each family was given 160-acre farmstead