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Oversight of the reservations. In the past they have not been very good at it. Many reservation agents sold the supplies given to them for the reservation and let the people go hungry. In the book Black Elk Speaks one agent is reported as saying "let them eat grass" when asked about the missing food .
It was easier on former confederate states
Scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
They had no choice about continuing to work.
Cutting taxes for landowners
Ranchers and Farmers fought over land control.
This did not happen because the Black Hills are located in South Dakota, not North Dakota.
However, Custer's expedition found gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota which caused a gold rush to the area and eventually led to Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana.
all of the above
It was founded on the principle that Native Americans were the equals of European-Americans, and that Native American children immersed in mainstream Euro-American culture would learn skills to advance in society. Many people believed that Amerindians, a population that was numerically declining, were a vanishing race whose only hope for survival was rapid assimilation to American culture. Whether the goal was worthy or achievable is an ongoing debate.
land belonged to everyone
take power from southern planters
Women demanded the right to vote.
That's hard to say. While the Pacific spur of the TCR was built primarily by Chinese labor, the much longer eastern line was built by multiple generation Americans and recently arrived Irish immigrants.
They went to white churches or held their own services in secret.
Hooker, Meade, and Grant.
The homestead act offered them free land
General William Techumseh Sherman
