During the reconstruction era many people including African Americans and poor white men migrated from the North to the South in the search for jobs and opportunities. Depending on a person’s status‚ race or color‚ many were benefiting from the reconstruction and many were at the disadvantage. African Americans who were former slaves were at the disadvantages. They struggle because of Lincoln’s assassination‚ the KKK and the Black Codes. To start‚ when the thirteenth Amendment was passed on January
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North or South: Who Killed Reconstruction? “…the slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery” (W.E.B. Dubois). After the Civil War ended in 1865‚ Reconstruction began. All slaves were finally freed because of the 13th amendment. Other amendments were passed such as: the 14th amendment which gave black Americans citizenship and the 15th amendment had made it illegal to deny someone the right to vote based on race. To enforce these new laws‚ northerners
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RECONSTRUCTION-Reading Assignments: Norton et al.‚ A People and A Nation chapter 16‚ Portrait of America chapter 1 “The Checkered History of the fourteenth Amendment “quiz Identification Terms: Freedmen’s Bureau Tenure of Office Act Ku Klux Klan Scalawags Enforcement Acts Carpetbaggers Compromise of 1877 Sharecropping Reconstruction Acts of 1867 Crop Lien 14th Amendment Black Codes 15th Amendment Week 1 WESTERN SETTLEMENT –Reading assignment Norton A People and A Nation chapter 17 Portrait
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Lincoln and never took effect |many Republicans joined the Radicals and brought impeachment charges against Johnson to prevent him from dismissing further bills| Southern Democrats|to drive out the Republican coalition of freedmen‚ carpetbaggers‚ and scalawags and passed the "Black Codes"|three Southern states had disputed election results‚ but later agreed to accept Hayes if he named a Southern Democrat to his Cabinet|the removal of the remaining federal troops marked the end of Reconstruction and Southern
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Research Paper: First Draft James Longstreet is one of the most talked about figures in the American Civil War. As Robert E. Lee’s right hand man he fought at Second Bull Run‚ Fredericksburg‚ Chickamauga‚ Seven Days Battles‚ Antietam‚ Battle of the Wilderness‚ and the most controversial at Gettysburg. Often referred to as Lee’s “old war horse”‚ Longstreet played a major role in the outcome of the Civil War. Longstreet is blamed for the Confederate loss of the Civil War primarily because of his
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Samantha Barschow Ms. Werdmann Reconstruction Web Quest 4 January 2013 Part 1 1. Lincoln offered pardon to those in the South that pledged allegiance to the United States. When 10% of Southerners signed the allegiance‚ the Congress would then reinstate the South into the Union. 2. The opposition they faced was the Radical Republic. They wanted the majority of Southerners to sign the document and they wanted to put the South under military rule. 3. Lincoln was assassinated at the
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surrender of the South at Appomattox Courthouse resulted in the end of the war‚ but it did not signal an end to the suffering. Reconstruction started with the end of the war and rebuild the state governments of the South with the help of carpet-baggers‚ scalawags‚ and freedmen. With
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from Reconstruction? To what extent were their aspirations fulfilled? Assignment III: Read pages 585 to 592 (middle of page) 1. Why was the Southern Republican Party unable to sustain itself without outside intervention? 2. Who were the scalawags and carpetbaggers? 3. Why was it so difficult for Southern whites to accept the changes Northerners were insisting upon? Assignment IV: Read pages 592 to 598 1. Describe the economic growth in the North that had begun during the Civil War
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sheets‚ tortured and killed black Americans and sympathetic whites. Although the Klan was often able to achieve its aims by terror alone‚ whippings and lynchings were also used‚ not only against blacks but also against the so-called carpetbaggers and scalawags. (www.encyclopedia.com) The second Ku Klux Klan was a nationwide organization that flourished after World War I and was founded by William J. Simmons. The new Klan had a wider program than its forerunner‚ for it added to "white supremacy.” (www
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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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