Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Civil War and Reconstruction 1861–1877.
The popular name for the unfulfilled promise of land redistribution to newly freed slaves, representing the failure of economic Reconstruction.
40 acres and a mule appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for The Making of America (1789–1900), especially Civil War and Reconstruction 1861–1877 and Reconstruction.
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