The civil war brought a social welfare shift in societal opinions and policies as the Reconstruction era and the Freedmen’s Bureau emerged. Upon gaining freedom‚ former slaves faced troubling times getting work‚ housing and access to resources even as soldier’s due to their race. The Freedmen’s Bureau was established to deal with transient blacks and managing property that was confiscated or abandoned. The black codes practiced among southern states except for Tennessee limited black’s rights;
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Reconstruction Reconstruction started in 1865‚ its purpose‚ to rebuild and reunite the south after the war. The results of reconstruction is that it failed. People were not seeing results fast enough‚ and thought that going back to how it was before would bring back the stability. The people who are majorly affected by reconstruction were the blacks. They were looked down upon as less than‚ this cause them to be excluded from new industries. Jim Crow laws‚ the laws separating the blacks from the
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Brendt Pates Dr. Russell Carter English 279 – LO1 2/20/15 Old South Verses New South A Streetcar Named Desire‚ a play by Tennessee Williams‚ takes place in New Orleans in the mid-1940s. It follows the lives of Stanley Kowalski‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and Blanche DuBois and the story about a woman coming to visit her sister‚ which ends up going just as bad as any family reunion has ever gone. From the moment Blanche got to Elysium Fields‚ her and Stanley‚ Stella’s husband‚ appear as polar opposites and
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92. In 1865 an appointment was held between representatives of an African American community in Savannah‚ Georgia and Edwin Staunton‚ Secretary of War‚ and Major General Sherman concerning topics of the freedman in Georgia. Land was set aside‚ 40 acres‚ and a mule that could no longer be used by the Army to establish a community of their own. 1. Black leaders believed that owning land was essential to freedom because by them owning their own land they would be able to support themselves by themselves
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War came to an end‚ the South experienced an era of changes. One of the most popular speeches‚ explaining how the post-war South had grown out of its old customs and made progress‚ was Henry Grady’s The New South. This document is an important historical speech when comparing examinations of how life was for Southerners in the years following the Reconstruction and the Compromise of 1877. Although this speech is very motivational‚ it differs from the reality of how the South was managing during this
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New Deal vs. Progressive Era During both the Progressive era and the New Deal era‚ policies as well as programs were being created in an effort to assist the American public‚ specifically those living in poverty. Throughout the early 1900’s Roosevelt had strayed away from the typical laissez-faire policy and decided that the people would need to be guided by the government. “Wilsonian Progressivism” had also aimed at assisting the public with his “New Freedom Program” which consisted of antitrust
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After the Civil war‚ President Lincoln reconstruction plans for the United States was to unify and reconcile the north and the south. Republican dislike President Lincoln reconstruction plan due to their belief that the south should be punished. Due to assassination of President Lincoln‚ President Andrew Johnson’s carried on with the reconstruction for the south. President Johnson plans range from disallowing freed slave’s freedom‚ returning land and property back to southerners‚ and establishing
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Blaize Giangiulio Mr. Reader AP US II 3 September 2014 From 1860 to 1877 America fought a bloody Civil War and went through a “Reconstruction” era from that war. During this time period changes to the Constitution‚ such as the 15th Amendment that granted African American men the right to vote‚ caused what is now viewed as a revolution. The formation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1865 exemplifies a social change that stirred the pot of revolution in a different way. Put together‚ the social and constitutional
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citizens and the economy‚ as well as in the strength and size of the executive branch and government as a whole. The Progressive and New Deal programs provided a structure for the reformers to implement these changes. Formative ambition was still a major part of government in both the Progressive and New Deal periods. It was also evident in the pre-progressive industrial era‚ when the sole mission of organizations like the Knights of Labor was to create a cooperative community of virtuous citizens.
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Lincoln‚ the president of the U.S at the time came up with the plan to re-build the country after the war. He called it Reconstruction Plan. The Reconstruction Plan was put to use right after the war in 1865 and ended in 1877. Within the Reconstruction Plan‚ Lincoln offered a model for reinstatement of Southern states called the 10 percent Reconstruction plan. And also‚ during reconstruction period‚ we witnessed the emerged of Black Code which created the Fourteen and Fifteen Amendments and followed up
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