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☆☆☆☆☆The state of Wyoming granted women voting rights in 1890. Several other states, such as Oregon and Colorado, had granted voting rights to women before the 19th Amendment.
Most westward expansion increased right after the civil war due to the mining industry in the west. The civil war caused economic problems. People were looking to start over and "get rich quick". Many people desired to own their own land. Thus the Homestead Act was created.
The building of the transcontinental railroad created more jobs and led to more land being sold and purchased.
The demands for beef in the west and the cattle drives led to ranching and farming.
It had to be rebuilt from almost nothing
The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
They were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The Ku Klux Klan,
The Knights of the White Camelia,
And The White Brotherhood.
The production of steel in Alabama
They had no choice about continuing to work.
Cutting taxes for landowners
They were mostly segregated.
African Americans that migrated to the Great Plains were called Exodusters.
china
For the farmers own Needs
Black Codes
The freed men's bureau
the Freedmen's Bureau.
Forced into convict labor until they were adults.
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The 15th Amendment to the U.S Constitution gave all American males the right to vote.
Grandfather clauses were based upon individual African American's family histories.
