Some of these people were northerners who came to the south after the war ended. Their opponents called them "carpetbaggers‚" this implied that they packed their things in a suitcase to move quickly to the South in order to gain the benefits of being in office. Most carpetbaggers were Union army veterans that decided to stay in the South when the war was over. Others were teachers‚ investors in railroads and land that sought economic opportunity
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Laura Johnson Oliver O. Howard - the Union general who in 1865 became the first head of the Freedmen’s Bureau Andrew Johnson - the man from Tennessee who was added as Lincoln’s running mate in 1864 to sew up the election by attracting War Democrats and the Border States Alexander Stephens - ex confederacy president‚ was indicted for treason but let out as Christmas present. Served in congress. Thaddeus Stevens - the crusty Pennsylvania congressman who led the radical Republicans during Reconstruction
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securing land‚ education was one of their top priorities. With the military came people to help run the occupied states and teachers who wanted to educate African-Americans. These people were called carpetbaggers by hostile southern whites. Southerners that worked with carpetbaggers were called scalawags‚ In time scalawags became known as "white trash." Over 1‚000 schools were built‚ teacher-training institutions were created‚ and several black colleges were founded and some were
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problems which the United States faced. Many often think of the United States as peaceful after the Civil War was over‚ but this is far from the truth. Hyde shows how evident it was that unity of this nation was far from being reached. The carpetbaggers were northerners who supposedly carried all their belongings in a satchel made of carpet material as they came south to exploit the defeated region of the South. The white Southerners gave them this degrading name to them because they wanted to
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After the Civil war‚ there was a time called the Reconstruction Period. This was a time where both the North and the South resituated after the war. In the North‚ not much changed after the war. Though while their industry progressed‚ they had lost thousands of men during the war. Also‚ very little property in the North was damaged so returning soldiers could go back to their farms or jobs. On the other hand‚ the South had lost many of their men and their slaves. Though the slaves were filled with
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government because loss of their voted Representatives and they had people like Bullock coming in as governor. They felt these people as people who betrayed them and were considered the lowest of the low and stood right next to the swagglewags and carpetbaggers. This led to many different states in rejection of the 14th amendment and to stay strong as a whole to protect those who stood with them prewar time as their Representatives. They didn’t believe that one should lose their job or the ranks by the
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What Is Freedom? Reconstruction 1865-1877 Four days after the meeting Sherman issued Special Field Order 15: It set aside Sea Island and a large area on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts for the settlement of the black families on 40 acre plots of land. He offered them broken mule too. With Slavery dead‚ which black institution strengthened after the war? a. The free blacks’ church b. The secret slave church c. The back family d. The free blacks’ schools e. ALL OF THE ABOVE- Correct
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Chapter 16 Outline part 1 The federal government in 1865 faced unprecedented questions: how could the Union be restored and the defeated south reintegrate into the nation? Would the Confederate states be treated as conquered territories? Who would set the standards for readmission- Congress or the president? Most important what would happen to the 3.5 million former slaves? Reconstruction Politics (1865-1868) National politics produced new constitutional amendments‚ a presidential impeachment‚ and
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The Reconstruction Era Must be submitted no later than Februaruy 3‚ 2010 Reconstruction appeared to be a program to aid in the assimilation of the freed blacks into the American social and economic system. The Radical Republicans in Congress had a different goal. Read Chapter 16 and write an essay describing the plans of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson and how they differed from the plans of Congress. Put special emphasis on the impact of the 14th Amendment and what it attempted to reverse.
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The film by D.W. Griffith—“Birth of a Nation” is merely propaganda used to brainwash the young white population of 1915 into denying blacks further freedoms. The film shows blacks in a state superiority over Southern whites which is quite ironic because if up to Southern Whites blacks would still have been their property‚ so technically no white would have allowed that situation to even come close. Throughout the film it depicts blacks in a submissive position to which they are abusing their powers
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