The Reconstruction period (1865-1877) was the era of rebuilding‚ the south‚ after the Civil War. In the South reconstruction meant rebuilding the economy‚ establishing new state and local governments and establishing a new social structure between whites and blacks. Abolishing slavery‚ what should be demanded of the Southern states‚ restoring political rights to the South‚ and what should be the responsibility of the newly freed slaves were the concerns doing the Reconstruction period. They also
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Miguel Perez Mr. Pratt AP USH period 4 The Reconstruction Period was a time of great hardship for the United States. President Andrew Johnson was faced with the task of reuniting the North and South together after the Civil War. The Reconstruction period was a time when the government thought that all people needed human rights even African Americans. Until this point African Americans had no rights. They were still
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benevolence of Northern lawmakers and charitable acts from liberal whites from Northern states heading south to assist them in this massive undertaking. The results of these efforts are mixed and in the end had no lasting impact‚ but the period of Reconstruction showed promise‚ but in the end failed due to a lack of political will and interest in the plight of the former slave in the South. It was understood by all that the passage of the 13th Amendment was an inevitable outcome of the Civil War. President
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Immediately following the Civil War the actions of Radical Republicans led to many changes in the South. Leading the way to Radical Reconstruction was Congressmen Charles Sumner and Thadeus Stevens. Their were many goals and motives the Radicals hoped to obtain. The first and main goal of the Radicals was to punish the South. The Radicals also hoped to retain Republican power by taking advantage of the South any way they could. Going along with taking advantage of the South‚ the Radicals wanted to
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radical hope. By the end of the Civil War‚ the North and South were complete opposites; night and day‚ industrial and agricultural‚ conservative and liberal. Since they were unified‚ they finally had something in common - their futures. During the Reconstruction period‚ the political‚ economic‚ and social aspects of the North and South determined how America would be rebuilt. The reason for the discomfort and war in the first place -economics- was still a tension-filled topic in the later 1860s. In the
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western territories. Foreign powers did not intervene. After four years of bloody combat that left over 600‚000 soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South’s infrastructure‚ the Confederacy collapsed‚ slavery was abolished‚ and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing rights to the freed slaves began. During the American Civil War‚ Lincoln’s actions broadened the power of the Executive Branch. An example of this is the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation
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President Andrew Johnson‚ who was a Southerner and also thought that African Americans shouldn’t have a role in Reconstruction‚ American Historian‚ Robert Cruden said of Johnson‚ "His Jacksonian philosophy had perhaps an even greater flaw in view of the problems he confronted: it had some place for the Negro as a free man‚ but it had none for him as an equal"1. During the Presidential Reconstruction‚ 1865-1867‚ Johnson appointed provisional governors and ordered them to call state conventions in order to
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The Laws in the Reconstruction Era and the Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement that started and grew through the years following the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and with the help of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Patterson‚ 2001) marked an important period that accomplished more than ending segregation in cities and unfair rights; it led to the transformation of American social‚ cultural‚ and political life. The civil rights movement did not only demonstrate that
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An “Era of Reconstruction” (578‚ Shi) as our America: A Narrative History textbook calls it‚ lasted a little over ten years and aimed to fuse the nation back together while also integrating the four-million freed slaves with those who had enslaved them for hundreds of
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