veterans organized the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)‚ a notorious terrorist organization. The Klan initially confined itself to fraternal rituals and riding at night dressed in bizarre costumes‚ but it soon became involved in the bitter politics of the Reconstruction Era. The central question during this period was the future status of the recently emancipated African American population. The federal government’s efforts to grant full civil and political equality to these freedmen fueled white racial hatred
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The victory of the Union after the Civil War had given millions of slaves their freedom. The Reconstruction of the South after the war‚ presented a lot of challenges for the African Americans. African Americans in the south began to lose their rights due to the Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes. African Americans engaged in many leadership roles during the Reconstruction Era. With the African Americans improving their rights and status‚ many whites in the south were disgruntled. Even though the
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African American men the vote. Reconstruction attempted to allow African Americans to be citizens just as White Americans. Blacks could now be a jury member‚ a witness‚ and even be a judge. African American politicians increased in the south. White resistance intensified‚ they did not want African Americans to be equal citizens as they were‚ they did not want to have biracial governments. Blacks began to constantly be under attack or intimidation. The end of reconstruction caused the nature of crime
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Prompt: What were the long-term economic‚ social‚ and political effects of Reconstruction? The United States was challenged with many issues after the Civil War like crop lien work contracts‚ segregation‚ and unresolved problems with the seceded states. This period was called Reconstruction. After the Civil War‚ African Americans were free but with no place to live in or to work at‚ they settled with their former ‘masters’. African Americans were technically free‚ but no one wanted to hire a colored
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Civil War in 1865 positively and negatively affected African Americans during the Reconstruction era. The positive outcome that came out of the victory of the Civil War was the freedom gained by millions of slaves from the South. Freeing the slaves‚ however negatively resulted in the creation of Black Codes‚ which were enforced by whites‚ to control the basic rights of African American people. When the Reconstruction Era came to an end in 1877‚ many laws from the Black Codes were passed and helped
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Reconstruction was more than just putting the country back together. It was a period of chaos and freedom. The civil war had just ended and slaves were finally “free”. Slaves did not know what it meant to be free since they had always been someone’s property and never really were able to live their own lives. The rise of actual freedom to former slaves came after the Reconstruction of 1867. Former slaves now had the power to be involved in politics‚ however‚ they were rising in power that led to
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1865 which abolished slavery in the United States. This was very important during the Reconstruction period because you now had over 4 million newly freed slaves. The Republicans tried to find new ways to help the newly freed slaves from adding the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment. These amendments were to protect newly free people civil rights and to guarantee that the men had the right to vote. The reconstruction period was unable to employ the newly freed people so they had to go back to plantation
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Reconstruction: The Post War Era Lindsay Pone Professor Goldstein History 105 Strayer University 01/30/2013 Reconstruction: The Post Civil War Era Friday April 12‚ 1861‚ America embarked into war with its biggest adversary; America! The American Civil War broke out‚ and what was believed to be a quick battle by the North‚ turned out to be a long bloody four years and left the country devastated. President Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th president of the United
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Civil War and Reconstruction era was it more liberty During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era‚ was one of the most historical moments in the United States American‚ which last from 1860-1877. There been serious argument if the Civil War and Reconstruction era was it more economic freedom‚ political freedom‚ religious freedom or social freedom on liberty? In 1860‚ Abraham Lincoln was elected to be president of the United States‚ he had idea that slavery should be abolish‚ which let people feared
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Compare and contrasts Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction‚ the Wade –Davis Bill‚ Johnson’s plan‚ and Radical Reconstruction. Evaluate the successes and failures of Reconstruction. After the Civil War‚ Lincoln began Reconstruction with his Ten Percent Plan‚ which was opposed by Radical Republicans. This plan allows bring states back to the union when 10 percent of voters agree to it. Republicans was against Lincoln because they thought his policy as too merciful‚ and they concerned about the re-enslavement
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