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White people thought the Indians were not using the land properly like the white people were. Killed buffalo because they were using the grass and competing for resources.

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In 1882, movement to stop immigrants that looked least western European.
They stopped Chinese from coming in
US said they would start being nice to Japanese if the Japanese would stop sending immigrants to America.
They did not like western Europeans because they would be loyal to the pope and not to the US
Jews were also not liked.

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1860-1896
US has a mass amount of wealth but it is not evenly distributed
Poor workers are exploited
Many immigrants take low paying jobs that are dangerous
Gilded age was good for the top layer of society
Mansions in new port were constructed
The gilded age creates an unequal society between the rich and the poor
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
Only reason markets could work so well was because there was such a high demand for products.
If the population does not grow then there will not be enough people to buy it from.
US had immigrants coming from Asia and Europe.

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When and how people tried to fix the problems created from inequality unsafe working conditions treatment of native Americans.
US people tried to make Indians into Americans. They took kids from their parents and put them in US schools and made them speak English and not practice their native culture.
There is the growth of anti immigrant. Many people did not like the foreigners.
The less white the immigrant is the less protestant the immigrant is.
Only certain people can be regular american

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southern states would be called slave states meaning slaves could be legal there. There are non slave states where slaves are free.

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Slaves counted as only 3/5 of a person when counting population of a state

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All started at fort sumner
postponed the issue of slavery with a bunch of compromises until the war.
They did not want the slaves fighting in the war because they would be fighting to get rid of slavery and the US wanted to keep slavery.
The north has the factories that make all the stuff for an army like guns uniforms and bullets
North has railroads which can move armies easier.
All the south has is the Mississippi.

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During the civil war the south was destroyed so they had to rebuild the country.
They had to demilitarize the area by getting rid of all guns and tanks
Who was to blame for everything
Lincoln wanted to be lenient
Lincoln is assassinated and Andrew Johnson became president
The reconstruction amendments, passed after civil war ended:
13. end slavery
14. provide citizenship
15. voting rights for black men
Write local laws just for black people to show that black people are less then white people.
Military had to enforce these laws because people in the south would not have any black representatives even though much of their population was black.
Freedman's Bureau
Schools were built in the south to help African Americans  (also poor whites) read and write.
Help find families
Labor contracts
Sharecropping was made: a farmer with no money goes to a guy who owns a farm and asks to farm in his farm, he uses owners money to buy seeds and uses his tools. Some of the crops that he produces has to go to owner.
The reconstruction of the US lasted from 1865-1877
Terrorist clubs formed (KKK) goal was to get rid of Freedman's Bureau and the 14th and 15th amendment.
In 1877 troops are taken out of south and 14th and 15th amendments are no longer enforced.
Lots of separation between white and black in the south.
Started forcing laws only on black people like a tax on voting.
Blacks were forced to take literacy test

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Britain did not need to farm food in Britain because the colonies could produce it for them.
US has real acres, rivers and a growing population that could work these jobs.

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3/5 slave rule
Slaves were not equal to a full person
King Cotton means that the south can break away from the north and not give them their cotton to them which makes up 59% of their economy. Cotton made America the most wealthy.
Slavery made so much money because the slaves were not paid.
People thought having slaves was wrong but thought black people were inferior.

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Bison freely roamed the land before the us took the west part of america and killed tons of bison and now barely any bison remain wild