HSTAA 105- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 19 pages long!)
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In 10 years, for the first time, america could feed itself: michigan, wisconsin, and minnesota were lumber states, attracted scandinavians over 1/3 of people in norway came to u. s. In 1892, 2 billion feet of lumber was cut from wi: towns became building so fast they couldn"t name streets fast enough, many vets headed west and hunted buffalos for its hide. Knee: helen hunt jackson published a century of dishonor in 1881 which documents the fed gov"s cruelty to natives. Gilded age: very few rich people and mostly poor people, not a lot of middle class, main influences in this time, immigrants: from famine, war persecution. Russia: industry: opportunities are in urban areas for the first time. Post reconstruction: hate groups began to form, in mississippi, there was the white liners, in louisiana, there was the knights of white camelia, overall in the south was the kkk.
