1‚000 of land near Galphin’s old trading post. It named the new city “Louisville‚” to honor King Louis XVI of France for his help in America’s Revolutionary war. From 1796 until 1808‚ Louisville served as the capital. The issue of slavery had divided the Baptists and Methodists into northern and southern branches in the mid-1840s. The war itself had split other denominations. While Catholics throughout the country remained in the Catholic Church‚ most Southern Catholics supported the South. Episcopalian
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The Civil War was a time of great change for many people‚ especially people who had been slaves before the war. They were finally free and required the help of the American government to adjust and get started in their new lives as free men and women. Although they received their freedom‚ they did not receive enough help from the American government in the aftermath of the Civil War for it to be as revolutionary as it could have been In fact‚ they received almost no help from the United States
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northern and southern states of America were disagreeing on. These disagreements eventually led to the Civil War. The common myth of the Civil war is that it was a war fought over the issue of slavery. So if slavery was not the reason for the war‚ what was? The war was fought to preserve the union‚ to keep the United States as one. Understanding the reasons for the south’s secession and the war requires the examination of the opposing views of the North and the South‚ the Dred Scott Decision‚ the
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After the Civil War the United Stated faced even bigger problems. Many questions were raised by everyone all over the country on how the U.S would work. The Union came up victorious while the South was completely destroyed‚ crops were damaged and the social status for African Americans was being questioned. While war was over‚ many white Americans still didn’t accept African Americans new social role in the U.S. The pressure was heavy during this time‚ and there for the Reconstruction era is arguably
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The years 1865 to 1877 mark a period of reconstruction in which the country’s main focus was to heal the nation and bring the Confederate states back into the Union. Reconstruction took place in two distinct phases: presidential reconstruction‚ which was extremely lenient‚ and Congressional reconstruction‚ which was less forgiving‚ but more transformative. Presidential reconstruction had very limited success because President Andrew Johnson was swayed by Southern praise and became something of an
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The Civil War was one of the most difficult and trying times during American history. The war ended with the the Union and Confederate states torn apart over one major issue: slavery. With the end of the Civil War came the end of slavery in the United States. Although the former black slaves were now free‚ they had no land and very few rights‚ and most did not even have family. Though out reconstruction‚ blacks were able to gain rights‚ but were continuously repressed by the white Southerners. The
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period after the Civil war has always been referred to as the reconstruction era. The reconstruction era can be defined from two perspectives. First‚ it covers the story of the United States between the periods of 1865 to 1877. The second part revolved around the transformation of the United States in 1863 to 1877 through the directive of the congress. An era was full of so much pain and endless questions. It is argued in different quarters that although the war was over reconstruction was still a conflict
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Riham Elshazli Professor Clement Price Civil War and the Reconstruction 12/11/12 Historiography of the Reconstruction Era At a time when America was trying to piece itself back together‚ the Reconstruction Era is one of the most important chapters in history. It is also‚ however‚ one of the most debated. After the Civil War‚ the South was devastated and thousands of freed slaves needed to be integrated into society. When Andrew Johnson took office‚ he was moderate in his views as to what should
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States Civil War spanning to the Great Depression is filled with events‚ that in hindsight contributed unintentionally to the next major event in American History. This period represents an ebb and flow of positive and negative events beginning with the conclusion of the Civil War and ultimately resulting in the Great Depression of the 1930s. By their very nature‚ a civil war is intended to bring forth change‚ change that was unachievable without fighting and bloodshed‚ the American Civil War was
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In the year 1865‚ marks the end of the civil war with a victory to the North and granted freedom to some 4 million slaves but also marked the start of reconstruction. It was a process to put the pieces that were broken during the war back together. However‚ this wasn’t an easy task‚ for there were a lot of uprising challenges. In order to repair the nation there has to be a strong bond between the South accepting to be in the union and for freedmen to have rights but due to fear from the North who
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