Civil War And Reconstruction Dbq Analysis
Ansley Walker
DBQ
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The period of the Civil War and Reconstruction, lasting from 1860-1877, the nation underwent a multitude of powerful changes, physically and emotionally. A school of thought today exists that, “The North won the war, bur the South won reconstruction.” What does this mean exactly? When the Union defeated the Confederacy, Northerners, freemen, and existing slaves imagined a political and social revolution in which their dreams of abolition and government power would manifest itself. However, the civil rights movement within the constitution, specifically the additions of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, brought to life the desires of the Union, but in the South such hostility and racism still existed that there was …show more content…
Constitutional change brought about what could have been a start to social reform, but hate was still present in the South as well as fear in the North. An assumption is commonly made that all abolitionist believed in racial equality, which was not the case. Document C is an account from Gideon Welles, Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy, and states “We shall get rid of slavery by constitutional means. But conferring on black civil rights is another matter.” One of Lincoln’s men against complete racial equality- here exists a problem. Free African Americans took the political stage in a variety of ways to attempt suffrage and property rights. Document C is a petition created by African Americans asking how the Union could trust them with guns and weapons to fight for them during the Civil War, but not with the simplicity of a vote? This could be seen as biased because of their race, but the black men who drafted the petition conclude with “where is the black traitor” which has a strong validity. Another example of African Americans involved in politics is the Freedmen’s Bureau, an appendage to the government during Lincoln’s era, was made up completely of free blacks or slaves. Free black men cried out to the Bureau and to the President for the right to purchase and own property. The men were revolutionary in their request for a Homestead in the former Confederate States, and were eventually granted the right to own land and the vote, seen in document G, a picture of the first black vote. Then in 1871, the Ku Klux Klan Act, granted blacks government protection from hate groups during the reconstruction era. In document H, the Nation praised the act a “novelty”. However, my argument that a social revolution did not follow the constitutional set up provided for it is manifested in document I, a political cartoon created in 1874, eight years after the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 and three years after the Ku
DBQ
Byrd
The period of the Civil War and Reconstruction, lasting from 1860-1877, the nation underwent a multitude of powerful changes, physically and emotionally. A school of thought today exists that, “The North won the war, bur the South won reconstruction.” What does this mean exactly? When the Union defeated the Confederacy, Northerners, freemen, and existing slaves imagined a political and social revolution in which their dreams of abolition and government power would manifest itself. However, the civil rights movement within the constitution, specifically the additions of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, brought to life the desires of the Union, but in the South such hostility and racism still existed that there was …show more content…
Constitutional change brought about what could have been a start to social reform, but hate was still present in the South as well as fear in the North. An assumption is commonly made that all abolitionist believed in racial equality, which was not the case. Document C is an account from Gideon Welles, Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy, and states “We shall get rid of slavery by constitutional means. But conferring on black civil rights is another matter.” One of Lincoln’s men against complete racial equality- here exists a problem. Free African Americans took the political stage in a variety of ways to attempt suffrage and property rights. Document C is a petition created by African Americans asking how the Union could trust them with guns and weapons to fight for them during the Civil War, but not with the simplicity of a vote? This could be seen as biased because of their race, but the black men who drafted the petition conclude with “where is the black traitor” which has a strong validity. Another example of African Americans involved in politics is the Freedmen’s Bureau, an appendage to the government during Lincoln’s era, was made up completely of free blacks or slaves. Free black men cried out to the Bureau and to the President for the right to purchase and own property. The men were revolutionary in their request for a Homestead in the former Confederate States, and were eventually granted the right to own land and the vote, seen in document G, a picture of the first black vote. Then in 1871, the Ku Klux Klan Act, granted blacks government protection from hate groups during the reconstruction era. In document H, the Nation praised the act a “novelty”. However, my argument that a social revolution did not follow the constitutional set up provided for it is manifested in document I, a political cartoon created in 1874, eight years after the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 and three years after the Ku