Reconstruction was the attempt to rebuild and reform the South politically‚ economically‚ and socially after the Civil War‚ and to refashion race relations throughout the nation. Historians of the era have focused on four questions: How much change was there between the antebellum and postbellum eras? Was Reconstruction too radical or too conservative? When did it start and end? And how and why did it fail? Reconstruction was as deeply political as the controversies over slavery and the Civil
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The Reconstruction Era had caused many problems among the black people‚ the south‚ and the North (The Union). During this Reconstruction Era the South had found any possible loopholes that they could use to take black people’s rights away such as needing to do a literature test before voting‚ and used their power to scare and threaten black people into doing what they had wanted. To what length did the south destroy Reconstruction? The south had killed Reconstruction by using any and all loopholes
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Reconstruction has changed the United States tremendously‚ the historic period was a period after the Civil War. It was the effort to unite African Americans and whites‚ establish privileges to former slaves‚ and establish citizenship to African Americans as well. However‚ the Reconstruction Act was a triumph as it created new Amendments and new constitutions for confederate states. It came to an end which brought about different issues‚ for example‚ segregation and Jim Crow Laws were in full effect
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Reconstruction was a period of time after the Civil War when the government set conditions for the South to join the Union. Many changes came from this; some good‚ some bad. Some of these changes include new white supremacy groups being formed‚ the assassination of Abraham Lincoln‚ and the introduction of sharecropping. One of the social changes that came with Reconstruction was new white supremacy groups being formed. White supremacy groups were formed to enlist fear onto mainly Blacks. One
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He graduated from Yale in 1973 where he obtained his law degree. He married Hillary Rodham in 1977‚ only a year later he became the youngest governor in a state in the United States. Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States and he did his possibly two terms. In 1991 Clinton presented his campaign to run for presidency of the county as a democrat. Bill was everybody’s favorite and won on July the following
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Reconstruction in the South Reconstruction is the Federal Governments plan(s) to abolish slavery‚ change the way of life in the South‚ and to bring the nation back together after the devastating effects of the Civil War. Many Government plans were brought up but never fell through. Likewise‚ Presidents over the years‚ after the Civil War‚ had also brought their own Reconstruction plans to the nation. Several good things came from each plan but not one individual plan had drastically changed
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granted black males the right to vote. • Reconstruction- plan to re-establish the south and re-admit them into the union o Lincoln- 10% plan o Johnson took away 10% plan o Amendments 13‚14‚ and15 • Black codes- way for the southerners to control the freed slaves o Freedman’s Bureau- congress plan for reconstruction • Protect the freed slaves‚ put south under martial law to enforce reconstruction and new amendments • Johnson vetoed it o Reconstruction acts- set up military to supervise former
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Who killed reconstruction?Why did they kill reconstruction?South or North?It is definitely a topic that is important in American history.Reconstruction is a an era after the Civil War when the south was absolutely destroyed‚getting the economy back up‚and seeing what to with the “Freedmen”.Since most of the war was mostly fought in the south‚the entire south was burned down‚all the buildings or houses had bullet holes or cannon shots in them‚which was all part of the reconstruction.There were all
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massacre of the North states against the South‚ they called it the Civil War. hen it was over and the North won‚ the bonds weren’t as strong as before and the war had hit the USA harder than expected. President Lincoln made a plan to save our country called REconstruction‚ he wanted 10% of white southern men to take an oath of loyalty and they were off the hook for almost destroying the country. North or South: Who killed Reconstruction? The definition of reconstruction is the action or process of reconstructing
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of Reconstruction. After the Civil War‚ the defeated South was left in complete ruin; physically‚ socially‚ and politically. While black Southerners‚ who were for the most part former slaves with little to nothing but the clothes on their backs‚ tried to start a new life as free persons the white Southerners strived to restore “local and regional autonomy and white supremacy.” (Brinkley‚ 371) Aids under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson were the first government steps towards Reconstruction in 1864
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