The revived Ku Klux Klan was merely the most obvious and sinister symptom of general and widespread discrimination. The new Ku Klux Klan opposed many more groups than the blacks opposed by the first Ku Klux Klan. The first Ku Klux Klan group only discriminated against blacks and they weren’t known as the most discriminating group unlike the revived Ku Klux Klan. The revived group of the Ku Klux Klan not only discriminated African Americans‚ but Immigrants‚ Catholics‚ and Jews as well. Even though
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suffrage that was later established nationwide by the 15th Amendment. · Compromise of 1877: ends Reconstruction. What was Reconstruction? Attempt to achieve national reunification and reconciliation after the Civil War and to improve the status of former slaves (freedmen). The reality is that it was enormously difficult to satisfy both these goals. -- "Politics is the art of the possible." The North prevailed during the Civil War. The South prevailed after the war. I. Four main
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1. The Civil War will claim 600‚000 American lives. According to the reading that is the equivalent of how many Trade Tower attacks? The death toll of the Civil War is equivalent to a Trade Tower disaster occurring every Tuesday for four years. 2. Why would the framers of the Constitution not even mention the word ’slavery’ in the Constitution? The framers of the Constitution didn’t mention the word ‘slavery’ because they feared that the Southern states would not then join the new government
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period after the civil war. It was during this time that America was beginning to clean up from the war and rebuild the country. The north and south were finally coming back together‚ and that brought great changes to America. The ways of living before were different compared to what they were during and after the reconstruction. New laws and acts were being set in place to prevent another war from breaking out again and to maintain peace and justice that had been accomplished from the war ending. During
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At first the civil War was about saving the Union‚ but it became much more when the debate of slavery in the North and South came about. Sectionalism became a problem. Copperheads were Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War; they wanted peace in the South. Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States. Davis argued against secession‚ he was not as successful as President Lincoln. In the 1860’s‚ soldiers of the Union and the Confederate started deserting the army. The North and
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his crew to rebel against him and not defend him in April 27‚ 1521 in the Philippines and unfortunately he died. Was Magellan worth defending? He was not worth defending because of disloyalty to his task‚ lack of concern for crew and harsh/cruel punishment. Magellan was not worth defending because of disloyalty to task. This is evident in the document note; Magellan’s main goal was to reach the spice islands. However‚ while crossing the pacific‚ he stopped in the Philippines‚ where he decided
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and Success is Counted Sweetest were referenced about the Civil War. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address took Socrate’s rhetorical approach in that Lincoln tried to influence the souls of his audience. Dickinson’s Success is Counted Sweetest was less direct to her audience but nonetheless conveyed her message go triumph being more significant to he who failed rather than to he who attained victory. The Civil War‚ according to Lincoln‚ was God’s will for punishment against the slavery committed. Lincoln
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The Civil War started April 12‚1861 with the attack on Fort Sumter. It was a war fought to preserve the Union and to free the slaves in the South. The North was more justified then the South for fighting the civil war because president Abraham Lincoln was trying to abolish slavery and bring the Union back together. The South was trying to keep slavery because without it there would be no one to pick the cotton‚ and that at the time was how the South made money. The civil war began with the attack
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In the nineteenth century‚ the great nation of America that had been so successfully founded and developed by its united citizens was threatened by civil war. The early part of the century sought compromise that would end disputes between the Northern and Southern regions of the country; however‚ by 1850‚ tensions between the two parties had risen far beyond conciliation. These tensions that made compromise impossible centered mostly on the issue of slavery‚ and the zeal that many people had in defending
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goes by Cesar Chavez he stood up for civil rights and he also believed in nonviolence. Cesar was a Mexican-American farm worker that worked very hard for better water‚ restrooms‚ and better pay. When: Cesar Chavez decided to take a stand on September 8th‚ 1965. They also went on a three hundred-mile march on strike‚ the National Farm Workers Association asked Cesar if they can join the strike. In 1970 the grape‚ better pay‚ bathrooms‚ and better water strike was successfully over and everything went
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