post civil war
Title: post civil war
Category: History
Details: Words: 1230 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
post civil war
When the Civil War came to an end, the frontier line was still wavering westward. A long fringe of settlement ran roughly north through central Texas and on to the Canadian border. Between this serrated line and the settled areas on the Pacific slope, there were virtually no white people. The few exceptions were the islands of Mormons in Utah, occasional trading posts and gold camps, and several scattered Spanish-Mexican settlements throughout the Southwest.
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…showed last 75 words of 1230 total…over the plight of the Indians. Humanitarians wanted to treat the Indians kindly and persuade them thereby to “walk the white man’s road.” Yet hard-liners insisted on the current policy of forced containment and brutal punishment. Neither side showed much respect for traditional Native American culture. Christian reformers, who often administered educational facilities on the reservations, sometimes withheld food to force the Indians to give up their tribal religion and assimilate to white society.
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