African American Territory (RIP Lil Eli)

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Creation and development of African American Territory:
 * Since slavery was abolished, a large population of African Americans began to integrate into the life in the Southern States, with some heading north to start new lives. This brought about widespread clashes between racial groups.
 * Looking to find a solution to the increasingly violent and far-reaching, Congress began to look for a more sustainable arrangement.
 * With African American men gaining the right to vote in 1826, an increasingly powerful African American political voice combined with a wide held belief in a need for reparations on behalf of the American government (and southern states in particular) to formulate a plan to designate some of the unsettled territory west of the southern states as a state exclusively for freed slaves.