union. The war had left the souths economy and society in destruction. It would take a lot of effort to reestablish states. The remaking of the states was called reconstruction. During the Reconstruction Era many changes happened. In 1865 and 1866 southern states legislatures passed black codes to control the behavior and work of African Americans. There was outrage in the north over the codes‚ and they did not want the support from Presidential Reconstruction. During this time blacks gained a voice
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Univ US History Plans for Reconstruction Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction had some of Lincoln’s key concepts in it but the plan also differed from Lincoln’s greatly. The looming showdown between Lincoln and the Congress over competing reconstruction plans never occurred. The president was assassinated on April 14‚ 1865. His successor‚ Andrew Johnson of Tennessee‚ lacked his predecessor’s skills in handling people; those skills would be badly missed. Johnson’s plan envisioned Pardons that would
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imagined. What they found was a system similar to that of the south‚ where the working classes was mistreated and underpaid by the rich and powerful. The leader of the Women’s Rights Movement‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ said this: “The men and the women of the North are slave-holders‚ those of the South slave-owners. The guild rests on the North equally with the South.” Susan B. Anthony meant that the laborers in the North and slaves in the South were treated the same; that is‚ unfairly. Susan B. Anthony
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AH 213 Olds 7 DBQ Essay Reconstruction or Disfranchisement: After the Civil War‚ the South’s economy was devastated and was filled with angry whites who were frustrated over the emancipation of slavery. They wished to change the social status of African Americans and suppress them once again. The post-war South was in a state of chaos. In hopes to solve this problem‚ Lincoln established a Reconstruction Plan. Reconstruction was meant to tackle the issues through the re-admittance
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of both the north and the south. Be sure to discuss both on the eve of war in regards to politics‚ culture and economics. The north relied heavily on industry and commerce‚ while the south relied heavily on plantations and agriculture. They were also seeing completely different views on the subject of slavery. Three big causes of the Civil War were that of states vs. federal rights‚ slavery within territories‚ and the abolition movement. One of the major exports of the south is cotton‚
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The Northern and Southern parts of the United States urbanized along different lines. The South continued to be a primarily agricultural economy while the North became further industrialized with each passing day. With these major changes happening in the economy different group cultures and political values came about. The Civil War was mainly started by the sectional tension from the north and south‚ the Missouri Compromise‚ the removal of Texas‚ and politics of slavery. The prominent problem
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In the early American colonies‚ the south and the north developed into two distinctly different colonies. Although their origins were both from Europe‚ their customs and living habits became so different that it would play a major role in America’s history. There are many reasons why these differences occurred but only a few major reasons stand out. Religion‚ greed and the composition of the colonies are some of the major reasons why the north and south grew to be so different in the late 1600’s
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the future status of the four million newly freed slaves. After the death of President Lincoln and the failure of President Johnson‚ Congress‚ in 1867‚ took charge of the effort to “reconstruct” our divided nation. A large part of “Congressional Reconstruction” was an effort to establish and protect the citizenship rights of the freedmen. The former Confederacy was divided into five military districts‚ each governed by a Union general. The Southern states‚ in order to rid themselves of these “military
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AP US History Reconstruction DBQ Following the culmination of the Civil War‚ issues regarding the restoration of seceded states to the Union‚ the emancipation of slaves‚ and the overall re-development of political institutions in the nation prevailed. The idea of Reconstruction was proposed to political officials in late 1865‚ when the effects of the tumultuous Civil War were at its most devastating. The various enactments of the period were deemed void and not actively enforced. Democratic and
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(Civil War) between the North and South was a major war that included more than 100‚000 troops. North and South had to turn to their neighboring countries to find more men willing to fight with them. Both started to developed strategic plans. The south wanted their independence and the North wanted to preserve their Union. Believing that a time for negotiating has passed Lincoln believed the North had to physically conquer the Confederates to gain control of the South. The North had more man power and
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