Native Americans. the original inhabitants of the land. were decimated as a people. and survivors were stripped of political and human rights. Tenant farmers and other nonlandowners lacked political rights. While white male landowners reaped the tremendous group benefits of the Homestead Act and the land reclamation laws which provided them with oil and soilrich land they earned purely. by luck of birth. those who had worked the land. mostly MexicanAmericans and AsianAmericans and immigrants. were prevented from owning land by antialien laws which were on the books until the 1950s. Asian men were imported to work on the railroad in the West while Asian women were employed in menial positions and Asians were often not allowed to marry. The judicial branch also enforced exclusive affirmative action.
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