President Johnson stopped the redistribution of planters land to the slaves. Radical Republicans push new plan. Freed slave families still get their 40 Acres and a mule. It comes from the lands in the west. A version of the Homestead Act of 1864 for the former slaves. In 10 years, 1866-1876, 3 million Negro (polite term for blacks back then) move west. Totally shifted economics in the south and the west.
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