Continued growth of settlement
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- Continued growth of settlement 1879-93
- The Exoduster Movement 1879
- Causes
- Freed slaves in the South wanted new lives
- Southern whites used violence and intimidation against ex-slaves
- 1873: Former slave Benjamin Singleton settled in Kansas
- promoted settling of Kansas
- helped many black Americans move
- set foundations for mass migration in 1879
- 1879
- rumour spread that Kansas was only for freed slaves
- untrue but caused thousands of black Americans to make the move
- Kansas
- Missouri
- Indiana
- untrue but caused thousands of black Americans to make the move
- 40,000 had set off west
- rumour spread that Kansas was only for freed slaves
- Impacts
- 1880: over 43,000 black Americans in Kasas
- Exodusters left with infertile land
- Exodusters couldn't afford administration fee fro land
- Massive white opposition to exodusters
- Felt the government should help the whites instead
- Exodusters contracted Yellow Fever en route
- Governor set up association to help
- By 1880 news had spread and the steam of migrants decreased
- Were poorer than whites but still better life than in South
- Causes
- The Oklahoma Land Rush 1893
- Indian Territory open for the public
- 8,000,000 acres opened up for settlement
- Settlers would wait at the boundary until land was opened
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- The Exoduster Movement 1879
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