From the year of Lincoln’s first election‚ to the end of the Reconstruction Act‚ America had been through a cultural and political revolution‚ that changed the entirety of the country’s dynamics. After the close of the Civil War in 1865‚ the Union held a clear stand against the institution of slavery. After President Lincoln was assassinated‚ his vice president‚ Andrew Johnson‚ popularly seemed unfit for the task of reconstruction of the country. Congress‚ Constitutional amendments‚ racism‚ and
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president of the United States. During his two year term he was criticized for a number of things. One major thing that negatively affected his political career was that he trusted too easily. As a result of this‚ members of his cabinet‚ and lower administration got away with everything from financial mismanagement to theft. Once word of this got out he lost support within his own party. Despite immense efforts‚ Grant failed to apply congressional policies during the years of reconstruction. An example
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treated under the law‚ or so the story goes. The fact of the matter is that even after the Emancipation Proclamation and after the amendments‚ slavery in the United States was still “legal” and not only that‚ but it took on a much different form. The institution of slavery changed from having the direct enslavement of blacks‚ to the United States legal and prison system enslaving blacks. Yet‚ the enslavement itself was changed as black convicts were no longer slaves to individual masters‚ but rather
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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 national
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The Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan is a secret organization made up of white Protestant Americans who discriminated against black people‚ Jewish people and other minority groups. The Ku Klux Klan made society realize that there was still prejudices and racists in America. This group encouraged the government take action to stop discrimination from growing in the South. The Ku Klux Klan is an evil organization but‚ it made the people and government realize how bad discrimination was occurring. Members
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began their new free lives. Often times they all struggled but they were now free. 2. Compare the economic conditions of the South with the economic conditions of the North during the period of Reconstruction. The economic conditions of the South compared to the North during the period of Reconstruction varied quite heavily. The South was limited in many ways after the war and had little to expand and prosper where as the North had everything from political power to trade. They made it so the
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the Civil War is known as the Reconstruction period which lasted until 1877. During this period‚ the rebuilding of the South began. The federal government set conditions that the Southern states would have to abide by in order to enter back into the Union. One of the conditions of the South’s re-admittance into the Union was that there must be civil and political equality for blacks. This meant that governments and social systems had to be reestablished in these states. Freedom became a source of conflict
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Reuniting with families • looked over thousands of miles looking for family • even purchased advertisements. Land Special field order #15 • Gen William Sherman‚ January 26‚ 1865 ○ 400‚000 acres ○ seize land at the beginning of the reconstruction area to provide land for former enslaved people The Port Royal Experiment • 1861 • black people could prove that they can actually learn • established an all black school‚ one of the first of its kind in the South CLICKER What was the
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Outline for 1996 DBQ 1. Opening paragraph: In 1860 through 1877 was a time of change and social development as the United States of America was freshly out of the civil war. -Fluff‚ facts‚ when the civil war started ended. -Thesis the ways in which the social change mounted to form a revolution would involve (List the documents main reasons) (Doc. C‚ D‚ E‚ F‚ G‚ I) 2. Body paragraphs: 1. Condone what the information says in documents C/D on how the black man can be trusted with a gun
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DBQ 10: Reconstruction’s Failure Congress Reconstruction efforts to ensure equal right to freedom failed because the enforcement acts that was giving in Document 2‚ Prejudice in the south giving Benjamin Boyer’s speech and from the book “Black Reconstruction in America” in document 6‚ another reason was the Compromise of 1877. In the exert from the New York times‚ it states the Ku Klux Klan purpose was to establish a nucleus around which the adherents of the late rebellion might safely rally
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