US Civil War

Americans moved West in the year following the Civil War because of the mining of gold and silver which made a rapid growth of the U.S. and the frontier changed dramatically as more people moved westward.

Representation of the South increased because more Southern states were created during Reconstruction.

Many freed slaves remained on the farms where they had worked as slaves for several reasons:

Some masters asked (or demanded) that the newly free slaves stay on the master's property, offering a house and wages. However, by the time the master was done charging the freed slaves for rent and supplies, they received no wages and could not afford to move to another place.

Some slaves were not told that they were free.

Many freed slaves did not know how to live as free men and women. They would try it for awhile and then return to their former masters.

Others stayed with their masters because the master had been good to them and continued to treat them well after emancipation.

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