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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Reconstruction and Race Relations Reconstruction and Race Relations The time period during the Reconstruction Era saw a lot of change to the lives of every American‚ from white southern power struggles to post-Reconstruction political and social climate change. Newly freed slaves sought to start a new life freed from the bonds of slavery‚ while Southern White hierarchy tried everything that they could to keep them chained to the local laws. Former slaves tried to move to
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DBQ With the era of American Reconstruction in America during the mid to late 1800’s came a sense of opportunity and hope for its people. America was on the move as nation‚ railroads being built faster than ever and the freedmen looking to find their niche in society. Although in the beginning the government provided support for these new citizens‚ efforts toward reconstruction faded as the years passed. Those efforts faded to a point where they were all but nonexistent‚ and with the unwritten Compromise
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Chapter 15 Vocabulary Deism- the liberal religious philosophy of the late 1800s that believed in a Supreme Being who had created a knowable universe and endowed human beings with a capacity for moral behavior. Unitarians- the spin-off of Puritanism of the early 1800s that held that God only existed in one person‚ not the Trinity. Second Great Awakening- the movement that arose in the early 1800s in reaction to the growing liberalism in religion. Charles Grandison Finney- the greatest of the
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The Plague struck Europe in a series of waves beginning from the mid-1400s. During that time‚ people didn’t know the filth they lived in and the unsanitized streets caused the spread of the plague. It is estimated that the first wave killed 25 million people‚ which is about one third of the population of Western Europe. Sporadic but deadly outbreaks continued throughout Europe into the eighteenth century. The plague didn’t regard any status‚ age or even gender. During Plague there were also many
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Reconstruction was a missed opportunity regarding efforts to help ex-slaves that resulted in chaos‚ economic loss‚ and social isolation to the South. First‚ Reconstruction was a lost hope because instead of restoring law and order and reconciliation‚ the South became a land of chaos due to lawlessness. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)‚ a white-supremacist organization‚ brought terror to the south as members of the organization used violence as their weapon to bring about the collapse of the Reconstruction
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Reconstruction and The New South Chapter 15 The aftermath of war and emancipation Southern towns and fields ruined‚ many whites stripped of slaves and capital‚ currency worthless‚ and little property. More than 258‚000 confederate soldiers that died in the war constituted 20 percent of the white male population in the region. Mourning of the dead and the old south brought southerners to romanticize the “lost cause” and reinforce many whites to protect what remained of their ruined world
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Chapter 7 term Sheet The Road to Revolution 1. Republicanism - a just society as one is in which all citizens willingly subordinate their private‚ selfish interests to the common good. 2. Radical Whigs - group of British political commentators; widely read by the colonists‚ feared the threat to liberty posed by the arbitrary power of the monarch and Parliament; warned to colonists to be watchful of any violations to their rights or corruption in leadership; hated use of patronage and bribes
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1. People in motion a. From Berginia to America i. By 12‚000 B.C. humans were in Siberia an western Alaska and Berginia‚ crossing land bridge. ii. By 8‚000 B.C. humans had reached Tierra del Fuego b. The Great Extinction and the Rise of Agriculture i. As glaciers receded and climate warmed‚ those who migrated south and east found good environment ii. Some natives settled down and adopted food cultivation 1) Permanent farm villages began to develop c. The Norsemen
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Chapter 39 Terms to Know * Stagflation: during the 60’s & 70’s‚ the U.S. was suffering from 5.3% inflation & 6% unemployment; refers to the unusual economic situation in which an economy is suffering both from inflation & from stagnation of its industrial growth. * Vietnamization: President Richard Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War‚ involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops & replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces. * Silent Majority: phrase
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