History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1693 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Distribution of Wealth
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The idea
By eighteen sixty the Mississippi River Valley held more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the United States.
In practice
Only three percent of White people enslaving more than fifty individuals.
Where people slip
Two-thirds of southern White households enslaved no one, and between eighteen forty and eighteen sixty the distribution became less democratic, not more.
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