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Natural Recourses: Raw materials like coal, iron, ore, timber-Fertile soil-> surplus agriculture---> industrial revolution-swift moving water= power & Transportation.
Capital: Bank loans = start-up for factories and businesses- stable currency = safe buying and selling- corporations formed to raise money through the sale of stock.
Labor supply: used to make goods- High birth rate- immigration from Europe and Asia- woman and children. -
issue with slavery from 1861-1865
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Lincoln, Johnson, Radical Republican/Congress
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banned former Confederates from holding public office
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13th, 14th, 15th
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To create a plan that would help rebuild the south and bring back the south
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Was to pull the last troops out of the south to end the reconstruction era
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By 1890, the frontier was officially considered closed. Free land was no longer available to settlers moving west. Two waves of immigrants would come to settle America. Differences in culture as well as competition for jobs would create tension.
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was a fight for equality (blacks and whites) like a drinking fountain, bathrooms, waiting rooms, ect.
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A struggle for social justice and blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States
