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Agreed with the Japanese emperor to limit the number of Japanese that come to the Us in exchange of better treatment of the Japanese citizens.

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The Chinese exclusion act which prevented many Chinese from coming to America. Then California passed a segregation law to keep Chinese people out of their schools. The President then retracted that law because he wanted to keep the trade

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Hands off where the government doesnt interfere with the markets and it will solve themselves

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A little while later the government had an agreement that they would have a republican president but they agreed to end Reconstruction. then then led to a series of events that made whites in positions of power and created many poor laws that prevented blacks from voting. This then led to the immigration of the blacks to the North.

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Somebody tinkered with gold and then they had to decrease the value and then the stock markets crash and it is pandemonium

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After slavery was abolished, many black folks did not know how to do anything so they needed to farm. So they invented sharecropping where the plantation owner was needed to provide seeds and tools to farm. The owners then set the prices and then take half of the crops of the blacks in order to pay for the seeds. They set the prices so high so that they could not make a legit living and not enough to save.

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After Lincoln the next president was Andrew Johnson which was one of the worse presidents ever and did not like blacks and rich white men. He passed many laws that prevented blacks and whites from coexisting and basically invented legal slavery where they pay fines.

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Indians and Native Americans were living there before the westward expansion.

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building of roads and canals and railroads

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building of roads and canals and railroads

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So goods can be moved along the water. the railroads helped take the railroad to help ship the materials to export

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Because population growth led to more growth and demand which led people to industrialize

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By 1860, more than half of all slaves worked on cotton plantations

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By 1860, the dollar value of slaves outstripped the value of all American banks, railroads, and factories combined

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Helped industrialize by producing cotton a lot faster, easier to process

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They just make enough for themselves and to support themselves

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90% of Americans were farmers

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-More people fighting in the North because people in the South had to fall back and supervise the slaves and the slaves couldn't fight
-More population in the North
-2x the railroads in the North than the South
-Better generals in the South
-Homefield advantage for the South

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-Tabacco use decreased so then the value of the slaves decreased and the the ownership of slaves decreased
- Slavery is then increased with the introduction of the cotton gin and slaves are worth a lot more

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No boundaries past the Mississippi river and the natives suffer.
They used many methods to get rid of the indians including relocations many times, assimilation, and they killed buffalos to destroy their livelihood and their food source.