Unit 5 Diane Arias PI: Panic of 1857: broke out due to California gold inflating the currency and over-speculation in land and railroads. Two groups opposed the idea: Eastern industrialists feared that the free land would drain its supply of workers and the South feared that the West would fill up with free-soilers who would form anti-slavery states‚ unbalancing the Senate even more. The Tariff of 1857 lowered duties to about 20%. North blamed it for causing the panic‚ because they felt they needed
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sure that their new rights were being respected. The nickname “carpetbagger” came about because the northerners would often come with very little of their possessions; they would have a small amount of their property in a satchel‚ or carpetbag. Scalawags were so-called “traitors” of the south. They supported giving political and civil rights to black men‚ but still had a white supremacy type mindset. They thought that white men should hold the control in the economy and in politics. They also
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The Murders of the Mississippi Summer Project Member and the Birth the 1965 Voting Rights Act SOCI140 Essay February 6‚ 2011 The nefarious act in1964 marked the historic event that changed America history. The Mississippi Summer Project traveled to Mississippi to encourage African America citizens to practice their First Amendment rights. Mississippi was a state known for apartheid‚ bias‚ and contemptuousness enforcement. The civil rights supports traveled though Mississippi retrieving votes
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16 Notes Overview of principal Reconstruction proposals and plans: · 1864-65: Lincoln’s 10% plan · 1865: 13th Amendment · 1865-66: Presidential Reconstruction: Johnson’s version of Lincoln’s proposal · 1866-67: Congressional plan: 10% plan with 14th Amendment · 1867-77: Military Reconstruction (Congress): 14th Amendment plus black suffrage that was later established nationwide by the 15th Amendment. · Compromise of 1877: ends Reconstruction. What was Reconstruction? Attempt to achieve
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in 1900’s to look at the after civil war and reconstruction era. He came up with the idea that the South was a victim of the—Tragic Era—construction era. Dunning‘s vision depicts the slave holders as honorable men‚ while the “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” as corrupts and opportunist who took advantage of the weakened South. Moreover‚ Dunning school legitimated segregation and black codes by claiming that the freed men were unable to self-govern themselves and blend into the society. On the other
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because of their treasonous actions of taking up arms against the United States. There were also the contributions of the invasion of carpetbaggers (Northerners who went down South to aid or profit from reconstruction)‚ freedman (former slaves)‚ and scalawags (Southerners who remained loyal to the Union). These were people who were voting at their polls‚ and holding office. The disenfranchised Southerners felt humiliated and formed radical resistance groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan terrorized
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Midterm Score 104 out of 200 points Time Elapsed 25 minutes out of 2 hours. Instructions Question 1 0 out of 2 points Which statement about the nature of the Islamic slave trade prior to European entry is true? Answer Selected Answer: The Islamic slave trade mainly captured adult males for agricultural labor. Correct Answer: The Islamic slave trade was not based primarily on race. Question 2 2 out of 2 points What is true about Native American relationships with African
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American Civil War Introduction The American Civil War is always remembered as central event in the history of the United States of America. The revolution of 1776 to 1783 resulted in the creation of the America but what kind of nation the America would have‚ was determined by the civil war of 1861 to 1865. There were two basic questions that were needed to get answered and remain unanswered even by the revolution. These questions raised the unanswered thought that whether the United States was
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Hale County‚ Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community. The Politics of Reconstruction The Civil War was bloodiest war in American history (600‚000 soldiers died). It began as way to preserve Union but evolved into a struggle for African American freedom‚ resulting in the death of slavery in the United States and the unification of the states under a stronger central government. The Defeated South South destroyed after defeat: towns ruined‚ slavery (means of labor in cotton fields)
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US History II Midterm Key Terms Chapter 13: Reconstruction and the New South |amnesty |Enforcement Acts | |John Wilkes Booth |Panic of 1873 | |Andrew Johnson |Civil Rights Act of 1875
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