of uniting not only two separated territories of the United States‚ but also two races long separated by racism and culture. Devastated and embittered by the damage of the war‚ the South had a long way to go in order to achieve true equality between the former slave owners and former slaves. The majority of the South remained set in racist behavior‚ finding post-Civil War legal loopholes to diminish African American rights (Tindall & Shi‚ 2010‚ pp. 757-758). Southerners continued to marginalize
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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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the 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
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The North and the South grew different way in Civil war. In the South‚ there were mostly farmers. There weren’t many skilled workers that why manufacturing was not much. But in the North there were a lot of manufacturing and wealthy people‚ they had a lot of skilled workers. During the Civil War‚ there were some advantages and disadvantages between South and North. Few advantages in the South were able to fight on it large homeland‚ they had best military leaders‚ they encouraged young males to
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During the Antebellum period (late 18th century to 1861) that preceded the Civil War‚ the North’s free society enabled industrialization. The free states produced 97% of the country’s firearms and 93% of its pig iron (Wandrei‚ 2018). The opportunities of industrialization attracted European immigrants and led to the building of major cities in the North. By 1860‚ the population stood at 23 million compared to the South’s nine million. By contrast‚ 80 percent of Southerners were employed in agriculture
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1865 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War) between the north and south. The north was fighting to outlaw slavery and the south was fighting to keep it. Although conditions were bad the north generally had better conditions during this war. Many people suffered because of the Civil war and not just soldiers fighting. “The Civil War caused difficulties for the people at home as well as the soldiers. Although the North endured hardships as well‚ Southerners suffered especially because
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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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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 in the South states.
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the blacks during Reconstruction Reconstruction was during the period of 1865 to 1877‚ where attempts were made to solve the injustices of slavery and its political‚ social and economic legacy and solving the problems that would arise because of the readmission of the eleven states into the Union and has been long portrayed by many historians as a time when vindictive Radical Republicans fastened black supremacy upon the defeated confederacy. Some gains were made by the blacks during this time;
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Most slaves in the lower South labored on large plantations possessing twenty or more slaves working on tobacco and cotton (Tindall‚ pg. 496). Europe had a high demand for cotton production so this made the land owners in the south in need of more slaves to help with the production in goods for the Europeans. The development of the cotton gin saw Southern planters grow a variety of cotton practically short staple cotton that was well suited for the heat in the Deep South. Much of the slave trade
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