Reconstruction. 1865 through 1877 was known as the period of Reconstruction. During this time the Confederate States were reintegrated into the Union. Before the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his forces to the Union General‚ Ulysses Grant on April 9th‚ 1865 which actually ended the war‚ controversy raged throughout Congress and country concerning the terms under which the secessionist states would be allowed back into the Union. One prevalent concern was what role the federal government
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US History R Chapter 12: Section 1- The Politics of Reconstruction I. Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction Presidential Reconstruction Comes to a Standstill When the 39th Congress convened in December 1865‚ the Radical Republican legislators disputed Johnson’s claim that Reconstruction was complete. As a result‚ Congress refused to admit the newly elected Southern legislators. In February 1866 Congress voted to continue and enlarge the Freedman’s Bureau. It set up 40 hospitals‚ 4‚000 schools
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officeholders were replaced. The dispensation of offices by strict party allegiance was followed in succeeding years and critical opposition grew. The corruption and inefficiency bred by the system reached staggering proportions in the administration of Ulysses S. Grant‚ and reaction against this helped bring about civil service reform‚ which was inaugurated by creation of the Civil Service Commission in 1871. The spoils system has‚ however‚ continued for many federal offices and is even more prevalent in state
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a dark-horse candidate to win. In the election of 1880‚ Garfield was not expected to win‚ or even contend. Ulysses S. Grant was the favorite‚ but because of the Credit Mobilier scandal‚ which was when the company took millions of dollars from the government to build a railroad they never started‚ Grant lost ground in the race. It finally came down to James A. Garfield and Democrat Winfield S. Hancock. The results ended with Garfield winning the election by only 10‚000 popular votes. Once he became
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deny rights to Confederate leaders. d. give African Americans state jobs. ____ 4. President Johnson challenged the Tenure of Office Act by a. running for a third term as president. b. not replacing cabinet members. c. firing General Grant. d. firing Secretary of War Stanton. ____ 5. Some scalawags were a. wealthy planters who were looking for a way to regain power. b. owners of small farms who did not want wealthy planters to regain power. c. Northern schoolteachers who
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Abraham Lincoln work hard from the beginning of his life to the end of his life. He was born on February 12‚ 1809‚ in Hartington County‚ Kentucky. He went through his childhood with purpose dedicating a lot of time to education and hard work. Later in his life and after he became the US president‚ he made a goal to free the slaves and win the Civil War. He loved his family very much and tried hard to support them. Abraham fought hard for what he believed in throughout his childhood‚ the Civil
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which are necessary to drive the war along the course which it took. During the American Civil War in the 1860’s there can be a widespread debate over which actual event was the turning point in the war that led to a Union victory. Most analysts refer to July 4th‚ 1864 when the Confederacy retreated from Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania and Vicksburg‚ Mississippi surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union as the turning point for the North in the civil war. Historian James McPherson goes examines these
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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 performance at Gettysburg and his role during reconstruction as well as his friendship with Ulysses S. Grant. After the first day of fighting at Gettysburg Longstreet did not want to reengage and warned Lee of the consequences. One of Longstreet’s subordinates‚ George Pickett‚ lead one of the most famous military actions in American history called Pickett’s
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eventually became commander of the confederate forces during the civil war and won many of his battle the most famous of them being the second battle of bull run. Unfortunately‚ he surrendered the last major confederate force to union leader Ulysses S. Grant at the battle of Appomattox Court House. January 31st 1865 Robert E. Lee was appointed commander and chief of the confederate troops. During the beginning of the war Robert E. Lee wanted to train slaves to fight for the confederate forces.
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After the Civil war‚ the Union was reestablished in racism. Reconstruction was the constitutional effort (13th‚ 14th‚ 15th amendment) of the north to force the south to treat the freed slaves as citizens. Reconstruction failed miserably. It is one of the least glorious parts of American history. Some nationalists like to think that there are no badly edifying chapters of America‚ and decide to forget about it. The civil war was one of the big three events along with the Revolution and World War Two
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