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  2. Forty acres and a mule - Wikipedia

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    General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha ...

  3. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The last claim under this Act was made by Ken Deardorff for 80 acres (32 ha) of land on the Stony River in southwestern Alaska. He fulfilled all requirements of the homestead act in 1979 but did not receive his deed until May 1988. He is the last person to receive a title to land claimed under the Homestead Acts. [48]

  4. $15 million in land purchased to protect 'America's Amazon ...

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    The Nature Conservancy in Alabama said the $15 million+ deal secured the purchase of 7,990 acres at the top of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. The Mobile-Tensaw Delta is the second-largest intact delta ...

  5. Economy of Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Aquaculture is a large part of the economy of Alabama. [17] Alabamians began to practice aquaculture in the early 1960s. [18] U.S. farm-raised catfish is the 8th most popular seafood product in America. [19] By 2008, approximately 4,000 people in Alabama were employed by the catfish industry and Alabama produced 132 million pounds of catfish. [17]

  6. Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States ...

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    The population of colonial-era Natchez was clustered along the waterways (which also served as the region's commercial thoroughfares), [9] namely the Big Black River, Bayou Pierre, Cole's Creek, Fairchild's Creek, St. Catherine's Creek, and the Homochitto River, with its right-bank tributaries Second Creek and Sandy Creek. [10]

  7. Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 - Wikipedia

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    On February 10, 2009, the newly confirmed Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner outlined his plan to use the $300 billion (~$414 billion in 2023) or so dollars remaining in the TARP funds. He mentioned that the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve wanted to help fund private investors to buy toxic assets from banks, but few details have yet ...

  8. In 1860, the combined total of railroad stocks and bonds was $1.8 billion; 1897 it reached $10.6 billion (compared to a total national debt of $1.2 billion). [148] Funding came from financiers throughout the Northeast, and from Europe, especially Britain. [149] The federal government provided no cash to any other railroads.

  9. Confederate States of America - Wikipedia

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    Like the half dollars, copies were later made as souvenirs. [238] US coinage was hoarded and did not have any general circulation. U.S. coinage was admitted as legal tender up to $10, as were British sovereigns, French Napoleons and Spanish and Mexican doubloons at a fixed rate of exchange. Confederate money was paper and postage stamps.

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