HISTORY 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gilded Age, Dawes Act, Homestead Acts
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Only a thousand freedman"s agents in the south at its peak. The government didn"t provide enough resources to have a success in reconstruction. Looking like small government in the south and big government in the west. Encourages free laborers to go out west. Given 160 acres of land as long as they pay a small filing fee and improve the land for 5 years. Results in a massive amount of people moving to the west. Pacific railroad act: massive land grants to the states as long as they"ll build a railroad, railroad that"ll connect california to new york. Cattle drive: all these wild cattle until someone put their mark on them, cattle brands and how to read them, because of all the branding, the period became known as the. Get rich, dishonestly if you can honestly if you must. There were about 5 million native americans living in north.
