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    reunify the nation quickly he was assassinated in 1865 only days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender plans for Reconstruction were taken over by Vice President Andrew Johnson‚ who became president after Lincoln’s death President Andrew Johnson he agreed with Lincoln’s idea that sooner the country could reunite‚ the sooner it could heal. President Johnson believed patience was called for in changing the social structure of the South. It would take time for Southerners to accept black citizens as equals.

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    Chasing Lincolns Killer #17 For this book talk I am going to give three characters I would not want to get to know and why. I choose John Wilkes Booth‚David Herold‚and George Atzerodt. The reasons will soon be explained in the following paragraphs. Just to be clear these three people were killed or thrown in a cell the day of what they planned. John Wilkes Booth is the main man of this horrendous act. He himself shot and killed our 16th president Abraham Lincoln. The reason is clear

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    4. What were the objectives and long term effects of Reconstruction on political‚ economic and social development of the United States? Reconstruction‚ literally meaning the rebuilding of the shattered nation‚ was a pivotal movement between 1865 and 1877 in which the South was trying to be readmitted into the Union as well as a moment in time where blacks were attempting to gain a redefined status in American society. The period of reconstruction during the later half of the 19th century consisted

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    constitutional conventions 3. Did not require black suffrage but gave federal government power to enforce emancipation 4. Lincoln pocket vetoes the bill and dies before compromise plan is worked out III. Andrew Johnson presidency A. Background B. Reconstruction policy 1. Placed southern states under appointed provisional governors 2. Appointed governors to call constitutional

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    In light of the following documents and your knowledge of the 1820’s and 1830’s‚ to what extent do you agree with the Jacksonian’s view of themselves? Andrew Jackson was a highly respected man of his time. He possessed loyal followers‚ the Jacksonian democrats‚ who championed Jackson’s constituency both before and during his presidency. The Jacksonians placed a high value on the common man and his worth to the American government‚ so they made a large effort to protect him. In the eyes of the Jacksonians

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    Plans of Reconstruction

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    southern way of life‚ temporarily divided a political party‚ broke down another‚ and affected the nation in ways that would have long-term consequences. Two of the three major Reconstruction plans were that of President Lincoln and Vice President Johnson that both sought to readmit the south as quickly as possible. Lincoln maintained that the political leadership of the South had seceded. His plan did not exclude people like Johnson’s did. President Lincolns plan of reconstruction was light on punishment

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    the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom‚ but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges. Under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866‚ new southern state legislatures passed restrictive "black codes" to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. Outrage in the North over these codes eroded support for the approach known as Presidential

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    as possible from the Civil War and planned to reunify the nation quickly | he was assassinated in 1865 only days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender | plans for Reconstruction were taken over by Vice President Andrew Johnson‚ who became president after Lincoln’s death | President Andrew Johnson |  his own presidential reconstruction |  the congress refused to seat legislators from those states and advanced legislation to overrule the Southern actions |  When he persisted in trying to dismiss Secretary

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    Reconstruction

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    surrendered‚ and the Civil War came to an end. Lincoln was preparing to move the nation forward in Reconstruction. The President‚ however‚ never saw his plans for Reconstruction in America because on April 14‚ 1865‚ he was assassinated‚ leaving Andrew Johnson to take over as President‚

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    Andrew Jackson and his supporters have been criticized for upholding the principles of majority rule and the supremacy of the federal government inconsistently and unfairly. The validity of this statement varies in the cases of the re-charter of the Bank‚ the nullification controversy‚ and the removal of the Native Americans. In the case of the re-charter of the bank‚ the statement is not valid. He did uphold the principles of the majority rule and not of the supremacy of the government. The bank

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