Board of Indian Commissioners, a permanent advisory body to oversee Indian affairs and prevent the further outbreak of violence. The board effectively Christianized American Indian policy. Much of the reservation system was handed over to Protestant churches, which were tasked with finding agents and missionaries to manage reservation life.
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Homestead Act, which allowed male citizens (or those who declared their intent to become citizens) to claim federally owned lands in the West. Settlers could head west, choose a 160-acre surveyed section of land, file a claim, and begin “improving” the land by plowing fields, building houses and barns, or digging wells, and, after five years of living on the land, could apply for the official title deed to the land.
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They also created the myth that the Civil War was fought over states’ rights instead of slavery, which was the actual cause
I feel saddened by the fact that this myth still exists today.
the Lost Cause tried to rewrite the history of the antebellum South to deemphasize the brutality of slavery.
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In working to ensure that crops would be harvested, agents sometimes coerced formerly enslaved people into signing contracts with their former enslavers.
It does not say the word directly but this is the definition of the identification term "sharecropping"
Freedmen’s Bureau
Identification Term: Redistribute lands to formerly enslaved people that had been abandoned and confiscated by the federal government
Emancipation Proclamation
Identification Term: aboliton of slavery in the United States. Only applied to enslaved people in areas of rebellion.