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History 222: US After Civil War
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Undergraduate 2
10/29/2013

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Why Was President Johnson Impeached?
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violated tenure of office act
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Who did first KKK target?
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southerners and black northerners
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Economic Dream versus Sharecropping
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Eco Dream: Increased industrialization and urbanization. Textiles, Tobacco, Steel. Sharecropping: Credit/Debt = poverty
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Major Factors to Poverty in South
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late start on industrialization, fear of outsiders, undereducated labor
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Populist Party --- Disenfranchisement
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literacy tests, poll tax $5
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Homestead Act of 1862
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Fed Gov gives 160 acres to person who settles on land for 5 years, must improve the land. Blacks and poor Whites benefited.
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Dawes Act
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Allowed the President to separate the Native Americans. The President would take the land away that he didn't think was needed and sold it to non Native Americans
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