CLEP U.S. History I 101: Wartime Government, Economy, and Dissent
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 18 | Lesson 18.6 With southern representatives absent, Republicans enacted the Homestead Act, Morrill Land-Grant College Act, Pacific Railway Acts, higher tariffs, a national banking system, and federal paper money. These measures financed war and advanced a long-term free-labor development program. The Union government also expanded taxation and borrowing. […]
CLEP U.S. History I 100: Black Military Service and the Destruction of Slavery
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 18 | Lesson 18.5 Official wartime tabulations list approximately 179,000 Black men in the U.S. Army, and the Library of Congress summarizes Army and Navy service together as around 200,000. The naval component is commonly estimated near 20,000. These are overlapping ways to report the same broad mobilization, not […]
