securing land‚ education was one of their top priorities. With the military came people to help run the occupied states and teachers who wanted to educate African-Americans. These people were called carpetbaggers by hostile southern whites. Southerners that worked with carpetbaggers were called scalawags‚ In time scalawags became known as "white trash." Over 1‚000 schools were built‚ teacher-training institutions were created‚ and several black colleges were founded and some were
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problems which the United States faced. Many often think of the United States as peaceful after the Civil War was over‚ but this is far from the truth. Hyde shows how evident it was that unity of this nation was far from being reached. The carpetbaggers were northerners who supposedly carried all their belongings in a satchel made of carpet material as they came south to exploit the defeated region of the South. The white Southerners gave them this degrading name to them because they wanted to
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government because loss of their voted Representatives and they had people like Bullock coming in as governor. They felt these people as people who betrayed them and were considered the lowest of the low and stood right next to the swagglewags and carpetbaggers. This led to many different states in rejection of the 14th amendment and to stay strong as a whole to protect those who stood with them prewar time as their Representatives. They didn’t believe that one should lose their job or the ranks by the
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What Is Freedom? Reconstruction 1865-1877 Four days after the meeting Sherman issued Special Field Order 15: It set aside Sea Island and a large area on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts for the settlement of the black families on 40 acre plots of land. He offered them broken mule too. With Slavery dead‚ which black institution strengthened after the war? a. The free blacks’ church b. The secret slave church c. The back family d. The free blacks’ schools e. ALL OF THE ABOVE- Correct
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Chapter 16 Outline part 1 The federal government in 1865 faced unprecedented questions: how could the Union be restored and the defeated south reintegrate into the nation? Would the Confederate states be treated as conquered territories? Who would set the standards for readmission- Congress or the president? Most important what would happen to the 3.5 million former slaves? Reconstruction Politics (1865-1868) National politics produced new constitutional amendments‚ a presidential impeachment‚ and
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The Reconstruction Era Must be submitted no later than Februaruy 3‚ 2010 Reconstruction appeared to be a program to aid in the assimilation of the freed blacks into the American social and economic system. The Radical Republicans in Congress had a different goal. Read Chapter 16 and write an essay describing the plans of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson and how they differed from the plans of Congress. Put special emphasis on the impact of the 14th Amendment and what it attempted to reverse.
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The Civil War was one of the main wars in the American history‚ which had drastic effects including the death of a huge amount of Americans‚ reconstruction‚ Carpetbaggers‚ and Jim Crow Laws. I believe that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery and not the state rights. There were various causes of the slavery but the expansion of slavery was the core issue which had increased the tensions between the North and South America. This is because as the North had growing industrialization
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The film by D.W. Griffith—“Birth of a Nation” is merely propaganda used to brainwash the young white population of 1915 into denying blacks further freedoms. The film shows blacks in a state superiority over Southern whites which is quite ironic because if up to Southern Whites blacks would still have been their property‚ so technically no white would have allowed that situation to even come close. Throughout the film it depicts blacks in a submissive position to which they are abusing their powers
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This traditional view can also be asserted as a racist view. The other popular view is called the revisionist view‚ and it deems the Ku Klux Klan a violent and disrespectful organization set on overthrowing the rule of Negros‚ scalawags‚ and carpetbaggers. This essay will look at the horrific acts committed by the Klan during the period of reconstruction‚ question the morality of such acts‚ and conclude that it is certain that the Ku Klux Klan was in a terrorist organization which hindered social
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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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