HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dawes Act, Camp Grant Massacre, Manifest Destiny
6 Apr 2016
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It reshaped american in building a new self. Changed legal foundation of civil and equal rights. Us"s first attempt to a more equal society. Federal government took it up as its project; extending fed gov power. Us supposedly founded on equality for all men so now that is stepping towards that and redefined men in their foundation. They didn"t unite everybody after the civil war. You had the right to vote but could be murdered and found loopholes around it grandfather clause . Created expectation and rights for citizenship: name 3 examples of ways in which the civil war and reconstruction helped to expand federal powers. : -civil rights act 1866, expansion of railroads, creation of federal cemeteries, freedmen"s bureau. Today: economic, technological, and political process that aimed to produce a more modern and connected nation in the last half of 19th cent, westward expansion, transportation, settlement.
