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Squeezing the Indians Economically, 1850–1893
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 In 1879 an army officer founded the Carlisle School in Pennsylvania to “civilize” young Indians. The
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 In 1879 an army officer founded the Carlisle School in Pennsylvania to “civilize” young Indians. The
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 A mound of buffalo skulls. In 1870 an estimated 30 million buffalo roamed the plains; by 1900 there
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
Loss of Indian Lands, 1850–2010
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 Indian Wars, 1860–1890
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 This Native American depiction of the Sand Creek Massacre, painted on a buffalo hide, shows the Indi
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 In Charles Russell’s Trail of the Iron Horse (1910) steel rails stretch nearly to the sun while wisp
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Chinese workers on a railway in the far West. “Without them,” Leland Stanford, president of the Cent
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 The Disputed Election of 1876
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 An 1872 Grant campaign poster of “Our Three Great Presidents” at best got it two-thirds right.
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 Sharecropping, 1880
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
Many former slaves understood that illiteracy was an implement of bondage. The Freedmen’s Bureau bui
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 Seven black members of Congress in 1871 are from left to right: Senator Hiram Revels (R-MS) and Repr
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 The Ku Klux Klan forces John Campbell, a black man, to beg for his life in Moore County, North Carol
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 Thomas Waterman Wood, a northerner, painted this hopeful interpretation of Reconstruction, His First
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
This photograph of a Union soldier just freed from Andersonville prison, stunned and enraged norther
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 Richmond, Virginia, lies in ruins in April 1865 at the time of Lincoln’s visit—and a few days before
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 Abraham Lincoln
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
 Abraham Lincoln
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Date: Aug 22, 2015
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