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    Reconstruction Reconstruction started in 1865‚ its purpose‚ to rebuild and reunite the south after the war. The results of reconstruction is that it failed. People were not seeing results fast enough‚ and thought that going back to how it was before would bring back the stability. The people who are majorly affected by reconstruction were the blacks. They were looked down upon as less than‚ this cause them to be excluded from new industries. Jim Crow laws‚ the laws separating the blacks from the

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    Slavery obviously had no small affect on the lives of millions of African-Americans in America. Both the North and South had strict rules on how the race was placed in society‚ rules that placed them far beneath any social class in America. It could be said that even free slaves‚ could never actually be "free" due to a complete lack of social equality granted by the American Government. Blacks were treated as something less than a human being‚ something like a product; this product was sold and traded

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    long drive ways and see green grass. You walk downtown and see most African American in the neighborhoods you see the building are close together with facilities around big companies‚

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    THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BLACKS IN AMERICA One of the most important results of the colonization of the New World was the use of slave-trade or labor. African slaves were imported first into the West Indies to carry out the severe labor at which Indians had failed. ¬1 The West Indian planters‚ as a result‚ turned more and more to the use of Negro slaves‚ and thus in the middle of the seventeenth century the importation of Negroes into the Caribbean islands began in earnest. 2 There were few evidences

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    The Reconstruction period‚ between 1865 and 1876‚ was a time for rebuilding and healing to the nation after the Civil War. For blacks‚ however‚ it was a time of radical change politically‚ socially and economically. These changes‚ both good and bad‚ would affect the black race for generations to come. Some of these political‚ economical and social changes were negative‚ but most helped the blacks become better off. Reconstruction affected the blacks in many different ways. The main aspects that

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    the Europeans where ashore‚ waiting to collect Africans for slavery on their boats‚ they used various techniques to persuade individuals and tribes onto their boat. They would stand on the shore ad display brightly coloured cloths and decorated beads; as these items were unfamiliar with the Africans and attracted them towards captivity. Another technique the Europeans used was trading. They would discuss what materials they could give in with African tribal chiefs to try and compromise a resolution

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    Reconstruction The civil war is considered by many the most important war that our country has endured. During the 5 year Civil War‚ not only did 620‚000 men die‚ but our nation was left in ruins. It was necessary that our country be rebuilt from bottom up. Abraham Lincoln‚ said to be the brightest president of his time‚ had plans and ideas for reconstruction. Unfortunately‚ these plans were failed to be put in place due to the fact of his assassination on April 14‚ 1865. Throughout some of the

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    Reconstruction was a time period in history that the United States went through to reunite the North and South after the Civil War. African Americans were a major part of this due to the fact that during the Civil war their emancipation from slavery was one of the major reasons for the division. In an attempt to reduce future conflicts that were arising due to the hostility between black and whites; laws were put in place to try and secure the rights of African Americans. These laws that were put

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    needed to have a way to re-integrate the Confederate states back into the Union. This led to the Reconstruction. Some aspects of the Reconstruction were successful because it let African Americans be able to achieve many political rights. After the

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    Death to Reconstruction! When Reconstruction began in 1865‚ the broken Americans had just finished fighting the Civil War. The North had won over the South in the Civil War. Civil War was fought for slavery to end in the South. The rest of the country had to reconnect as one unified government. This is called Reconstruction. While South had a few problems which were that they had to rebuild most of the south ‚ they had to free the salves and didn’t know what to do with them ‚ and they didn’t have

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