1. What was the impact of emancipation of those formerly enslaved persons on the northeast labor force and economy in the late 19th and early 20th century?

2. How was the Northeast region of the United States impacted by the gradual movement of indigenous native peoples to reservations west of the Mississippi? The railroad grants? The Homestead Act? The timber acts? How did this affect the Northeast, its labor force, and the northern economy as a whole? (Also during the late 19th/early 20th century)