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They gave freedmen fourty acres and a mule ( neve actually gave them a mule)
Homestead Act
Very simple they wanted the land. Since the colonies the Europeans took Native American ancestral lands for their own. They killed, discriminated against, gave diseases, and practiced environmental terrorism by importing plants, animals, and insects not native to North America. The European honey bee did more damage than anything else.
The _______ gave Congress the power to impose an income tax on the American people.
Ohio