The period after the Civil War was a very difficult time in the United States’ history. This time was known as the Reconstruction period and it was a very controversial time. There were many issues that had to be addressed such as what to do with the free blacks in the south and how states would be readmitted to the Union. This era saw the rise of the Radical Republicans. The government was going through changes‚ southerners were going through changes‚ and blacks were going through changes. Whites
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The Civil War was all the Northern States’ fault. The “issue” of slavery should not have bothered them in the first place. If someone had a problem with slavery the solution was simple: don’t own slaves. Instead‚ they tried meddling with slavery which lead to the Southern States’ secession and eventually‚ the Civil War. In my opinion‚ I think it all began with these new territories acquired from the Mexican-American war. The Northern States refused to allow slavery to enter this new land. Southern
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The period of Reconstruction began immediately after the Civil War and ended in 1877. This era is known for the advancements made in favor of racial equality. These improvements included the fourteenth amendment‚ "this law guaranteed that federal and state laws would apply equally and unequivocally to both African Americans and whites" (civil-war.ws)‚ and the fifteenth amendment‚ which granted freedmen to vote. With the end of Reconstruction in 1877‚ the Republican Party lost control of the southern
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Compromises played a big role in delaying the civil war. It was an attempt to slow the spread of slavery to the states up north and also to the territories in the west. It kept the nation united by trying to give everyone something they wanted‚ in order to keep them all happy. In 1850 there was an equal amount of the free states and the slave states. The territories and states did not want the government to control whether or not they were a slave state or a free state. They wanted to base the decision
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What were four demanding questions that would have to be answered quickly after the Civil War? From a broad perspective‚ a large array of posed questions would have to be answered quickly after the Civil War. Evidence from the text that further bolsters this claim is shown when the authors state‚ “Four questions loomed large. How would the South‚ physically devastated by war and socially revolutionized by emancipation‚ be rebuilt? How would liberated blacks fare as free men and women? How would
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There were many causes of the Civil War. The people of the south were angry with the election and that they were going to lose their way of life. The south was afraid of losing money and they didn’t think the slaves were humans. The south decided to leave the union and that caused a lot of hate. It was considered a treasonous act to leave the Union. It started with the election of Honest Abe. The South did not want him to be elected. The south wanted Breckinridge to become elected because he had
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of years‚ as well as rival European nations fighting for supremacy that ultimately culminated in the rebellion of the thirteen colonies against the British Empire in 1776. While the study of our history includes dates and facts about Presidents and wars; our story is the story of legends‚ curses and folk tales that have originated here in the Americas during the past three centuries and have stood the test of time. Names like Washington‚ Franklin‚ Lincoln‚ and Roosevelt are synonymous with American
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In the years leading up to the Civil War there were three major compromises that were passed and one compromise that was drafted but never voted on. The compromises covered are The Missouri Compromise‚ The Compromise of 1850‚ and Crittenden’s Compromise; which was never acted upon by congress. These three compromises tried‚ and failed to‚ deal with the increasing sectionalism between the north and the south over the issue of slavery from 1820 to 1861. At the time the compromises were written there
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inevitably led to a great complication. With the new stance on expansion‚ copious problems struck the United States. The battle over Free v. Slave states reigned on throughout this time period. With these factors at hand‚ America entered a barbarous Civil War. In the 1800s‚ slavery was disputed heavily between the northern and southern states. People living in the south embraced the fact that they demonstrated slave labor. Plantations were placed all over the United States‚ each having an unspeakable
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in 1860‚ that all changed. The United State was split in half. The Union‚ which consisted of the north‚ and the Confederacy‚ which consisted of the south. A fine line was drawn and battles began. Many reasons were thought to be the cause of the civil war. Few thought it was only about states rights‚ but it was slavery that sparked it all. The Lincoln’s opinions on the slavery is what led the southern states to secede from the Union in 1860 and 1861. It was the neglect of the issues of slavery‚ sudden
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