Civil War: The American Dream
America, the land of the free and the home of the brave has met many conflicts throughout our country’s history.By these conflicts,Americans have learned the best from it and we will try our hardest to improve on it. Our founding fathers fought to give us these rights and all americans should help sustain the “american dream.” A conflict, that all american’s commemorate is the Civil War. The Civil War took place during the time 1861-1865 where the United States of America was divided into two nations: the Union and the Confederates. During these harsh times, President Lincoln wanted America to be united again and also the Civil War had the most casualties than in any other war our country has fought in. After the long, Civil War our country
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One, would be the accomplishment of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and the fifteenth amendment. The thirteenth amendment helped America by banning slavery throughout our nation. The fourteenth amendment was made to guarantee equal protection of the laws, and the fifteenth amendment denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Our founding fathers wanted America to be a nation filled with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which now doesn’t only refer to the whites, but to all american citizens in the United States of America. Not only that, during reconstruction the Freedmen’s Bureau helped former slaves and poor whites recover from the Civil War. With the Freedmen’s Bureau, provided them with food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. Having the Freedmen’s Bureau, our founding fathers would be proud to see that our nation is helping one another even though we fought in a war that really influenced America a lot. Last, another accomplishment that happened during reconstruction was the rise of the radical republicans. The radical republicans was an important political group because they wanted the Freedmen’s to vote and wanted to break the power of wealthy plantation owners. The Radical Republicans did an important role in reconstruction by passing the Reconstruction Act of 1867 when Congress divided the south into five military districts and required southern states to ratify the 14th
One, would be the accomplishment of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and the fifteenth amendment. The thirteenth amendment helped America by banning slavery throughout our nation. The fourteenth amendment was made to guarantee equal protection of the laws, and the fifteenth amendment denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Our founding fathers wanted America to be a nation filled with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which now doesn’t only refer to the whites, but to all american citizens in the United States of America. Not only that, during reconstruction the Freedmen’s Bureau helped former slaves and poor whites recover from the Civil War. With the Freedmen’s Bureau, provided them with food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. Having the Freedmen’s Bureau, our founding fathers would be proud to see that our nation is helping one another even though we fought in a war that really influenced America a lot. Last, another accomplishment that happened during reconstruction was the rise of the radical republicans. The radical republicans was an important political group because they wanted the Freedmen’s to vote and wanted to break the power of wealthy plantation owners. The Radical Republicans did an important role in reconstruction by passing the Reconstruction Act of 1867 when Congress divided the south into five military districts and required southern states to ratify the 14th