What Was The Role Of Reconstruction In The United States
The modern history of United States started after the civil war in the age of reconstruction. That is when the United States decided to change how it worked as a nation. During reconstruction United States took many steps to reunite the nation that has helped for future generations.
The reunification started with President Lincoln who was a radical republican who was the major key component of abolishing slavery. He was also the first president to start the reconstruction process of America. After President Lincoln’s assassination Andrew Johnson is elected as the president who was a lenient president that pardoned over an estimated 10,000 people who were confederate. He believed the reconstruction was almost complete even though there was little change done to the nation. In 1865 13th amendment abolished slavery, in1868 every male born in the US was American citizens, and in 1869 Black Males had rights as White males. After Johnson the next …show more content…
Immigrants came to America believing that there were wages and work and no religious or socio-economic persecution and they were facing Economic hardships, overpopulation and persecution in their home lands. During this time Immigrants were the major part of every industry. Because of a massive immigration of people from all over the world to the United States the US industries didn’t have an issue with labor work. During this time United States was also competing with other nations for Immigrant workers. Immigrants were mostly from Eastern and Southern Europe, Canada and Central America, and some from Asia. By 1908 and 1914 there were 7 million arrivals and 2 million departures. These immigrant workers worked for a lower cost for allot of production. The Immigrant workers will work for unimaginable amount of working hours and would get paid almost to nothing for their
The reunification started with President Lincoln who was a radical republican who was the major key component of abolishing slavery. He was also the first president to start the reconstruction process of America. After President Lincoln’s assassination Andrew Johnson is elected as the president who was a lenient president that pardoned over an estimated 10,000 people who were confederate. He believed the reconstruction was almost complete even though there was little change done to the nation. In 1865 13th amendment abolished slavery, in1868 every male born in the US was American citizens, and in 1869 Black Males had rights as White males. After Johnson the next …show more content…
Immigrants came to America believing that there were wages and work and no religious or socio-economic persecution and they were facing Economic hardships, overpopulation and persecution in their home lands. During this time Immigrants were the major part of every industry. Because of a massive immigration of people from all over the world to the United States the US industries didn’t have an issue with labor work. During this time United States was also competing with other nations for Immigrant workers. Immigrants were mostly from Eastern and Southern Europe, Canada and Central America, and some from Asia. By 1908 and 1914 there were 7 million arrivals and 2 million departures. These immigrant workers worked for a lower cost for allot of production. The Immigrant workers will work for unimaginable amount of working hours and would get paid almost to nothing for their