Reconstruction/Big Business
1. Reconstruction
a. The purposes of Reconstruction were to bring the country back together, and economy that was strong and social and political footing. The Congressional Plans for Reconstruction restricted eligibility for participation in the state constitutional conventions in the South. The president, whom at the time was Abraham Lincoln, was running it. The congressional reconstruction supported the “forfeited-rights theory” and wanted revenge against the south. The Presidential Reconstruction supported the 10% rule and was very lenient towards the southerners and offered a form of amnesty for those who would take oath of allegiance. The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican party who believed that slaves should be treated equally, they were led by Abraham Lincoln and after his death and war they were led by the conservatives, South and the liberals, North. The radicals in the south boasted several important achievements such as funding the constructions of hospitals, insane asylums, prisons and roads. The radicals also introduced exemptions that protected the property of poor farmers while Republican legislators established public school systems that were a major improvement. Public schools for southern black remained funded and segregated and literacy rate among southern black increased.
b. The reason for the escalating animosity between President Andrew Johnsons and the Congress (Radical Republicans) was caused by their own beliefs that Johnson was a southern sympathizer who would destroy Congress plans for Reconstruction.
c.
d. Sharecropping was the practice of a tenant farming the landlords ground for a share of the crop sold when the harvest came in; it became a from on employment for former slaves in the post Civil War South. The economic impacts on the South overall were that the southern economy was tied to agriculture such as cotton production.
. Big Business
a. The roles that railroads played in the
a. The purposes of Reconstruction were to bring the country back together, and economy that was strong and social and political footing. The Congressional Plans for Reconstruction restricted eligibility for participation in the state constitutional conventions in the South. The president, whom at the time was Abraham Lincoln, was running it. The congressional reconstruction supported the “forfeited-rights theory” and wanted revenge against the south. The Presidential Reconstruction supported the 10% rule and was very lenient towards the southerners and offered a form of amnesty for those who would take oath of allegiance. The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican party who believed that slaves should be treated equally, they were led by Abraham Lincoln and after his death and war they were led by the conservatives, South and the liberals, North. The radicals in the south boasted several important achievements such as funding the constructions of hospitals, insane asylums, prisons and roads. The radicals also introduced exemptions that protected the property of poor farmers while Republican legislators established public school systems that were a major improvement. Public schools for southern black remained funded and segregated and literacy rate among southern black increased.
b. The reason for the escalating animosity between President Andrew Johnsons and the Congress (Radical Republicans) was caused by their own beliefs that Johnson was a southern sympathizer who would destroy Congress plans for Reconstruction.
c.
d. Sharecropping was the practice of a tenant farming the landlords ground for a share of the crop sold when the harvest came in; it became a from on employment for former slaves in the post Civil War South. The economic impacts on the South overall were that the southern economy was tied to agriculture such as cotton production.
. Big Business
a. The roles that railroads played in the