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    Long Drive Research Paper

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    Long Drive was a term used by Texas ranchers to describe the route they took to herd cattle from Missouri to the far reaches of Kansas to access the railroad in hopes of moving their livestock up to the northeast where they would profit more. Unfortunately due to the Civil War there was an abundance of cattle in the state which led to a decrease in monetary gain‚ so having the option to sell their cows up north was very significant to their wellbeing. Open Range Ranching was simply free land that

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    Death to Reconstruction! When Reconstruction began in 1865‚ the broken Americans had just finished fighting the Civil War. The North had won over the South in the Civil War. Civil War was fought for slavery to end in the South. The rest of the country had to reconnect as one unified government. This is called Reconstruction. While South had a few problems which were that they had to rebuild most of the south ‚ they had to free the salves and didn’t know what to do with them ‚ and they didn’t have

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    between the colored and the whites. There was a long list of tasks the blacks were restricted from. This included riding in the same car as whites‚ interacting with whites‚ going to the same school as whites‚ etc. Albion Winegar was a famous carpetbagger from Maryville‚ New York. He was a writer‚ lawyer‚ and Radical Republican. He was the lead councel of the Citizens Committee to Test the Constitutionality of the Separate Car Law. Tourgee then decided to fight for racial segregation. On February

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    As said before by many people‚ the better man in certain situations is the person that learns that they are wrong‚ are willing to learn from their mistakes‚ for the sake that they will be able to move on forward from what they learned. The North and the south are like a teacher and student‚ the North can teach the South as a student how lead the reconstruction era for it to become successful however‚ its up to the South as the student to see what they think is best. As so the South did act foolish

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    were considered much more conservative than the Klan and they were generally less violent. Its members were pledged to support the supremacy of the white race‚ to oppose the uniting of the races‚ to resist the social and political seizing of the carpetbaggers‚ and to restore white control of the government (Cantrell‚ 2005). The Knights of the White Camellia was organized in New Orleans in May 1867 by Col. Alcibiade DeBlanc and soon spread throughout the lower South‚ reaching as far west as Central

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    DBQ Lesson 5 The Radical Reconstruction had a large amount of impacts on the emancipated blacks and the south. The blacks were freed but were still subjected to racism‚ hate‚ and inequality. The radical republicans tried their best to fight for the rights of the freedmen‚ but at the end of the Reconstruction‚ the freedmen were still treated unfairly. An advantage of the Reconstruction is that it restored the United states into one union. Therefore‚ there were both advantages and disadvantages

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    people of the South‚ who found the symbols useful in the reconstituting of their shattered civilization. They perpetuated the ideals of the Old South and brought a sense of comfort to the New.” This however faced some challenges‚ the Northern carpetbaggers traveled to the South to educate blacks and make money‚ which threatened the Southerners who feared change in the

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    worked behind the scenes for armies of the North. During Reconstruction‚ blacks exercised political power for the first time in the South. They were included as authors of new state constitutions‚ along with military governments‚ scalawags‚ and carpetbaggers. On January 1st 1863‚ the Emancipation came into effect. It was a proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln that declared freedom for all slaves in states still in rebellion against the federal government. This meant that more slaves could

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    Pd. 4 APUSH DBQ Essay Prompt: In the quote above‚ Abraham Lincoln expressed his goals for the reconstruction of the country as the Civil War came to a close. Analyze how successful reconstruction programs and political actions were in achieving Lincoln’s goals. Abraham Lincoln‚ a man renowned for his involvement in the civil war and the reconstruction that followed the war’s lambasted segregation of brotherly blood‚ held an ideology regarding reconstruction that he wished to be upheld nationally

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    what they wanted from the farms and homes of civilians in Georgia and burned them down when people fought back. Christie JacksonHIS101FA12-2 After the war the South went through a harsh period of rebuilding called the Reconstruction. Carpetbaggers are mentioned and shown several times

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