After the Civil War‚ the South was left in shambles and many cities completely destroyed and the task of rebuilding the South and reuniting the Nation began even before the war ended. In December 1863‚ President Lincoln issued the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction to help expedite united the Nation again. However‚ radical Congressional Republicans believed that Congress was responsible for setting the terms of unifying the nation. Radical Republicans thought the president’s plan was too
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Thursday‚ January 16‚ 2014 Matt TA mondays 10-11 wheeler 102 graduate seminar room Chapter Study Outline [Introduction: Sherman Land] The Meaning of Freedom Blacks and the Meaning of Freedom African-Americans’ understanding of freedom was shaped by their experience as slaves and observation of the free society around them. Blacks relished the opportunity to demonstrate their liberation from the regulations (significant and trivial) associated with slavery. Families in Freedom The family
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take the loyalty oath before the state could form its constitution‚ and it also guaranteed equality before the law for former slaves iii. Sherman’s Special Field Order 15 of 1865 set aside 400‚000 acres of abandoned Southern land for forty-acre grants to freedmen iv. The Republican Party prevented the development of a land distribution system‚ but supported other methods to
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of Representatives for the first time since before the Civil War. With control of the House‚ the Democrats immediately launched more investigations into the presidential scandals and discovered further evidence of corruption. President Ulysses S. Grant made sure that the government intervened against political violence. A primary focus of Grant’s administration was Reconstruction‚ and he worked to reunite the North and South while also attempting to protect the civil rights of newly freed black slaves
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The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial Was assassination the goal? The general agreement is that the first goal of the conspirators had been to kidnap the President. A few attempts to kidnap Lincoln fell through‚ and then the Confederacy surrendered to the North. Booth’s thoughts turned to killing the President. Up until recent times‚ there was a great deal of theory as to the existence of an abduction plot. Some people felt it might be used to excuse the hanged conspirators. Even the judge
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One hundred and sixty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter; the Civil War still captures The United States imagination. In this report you will learn about the Civil War. The four main points that you will learn about is the beginning of the war‚ during the war‚ the end of the war‚ and why the war was even started. ------------------------------------------------- From the 1600s to the mid-1800s slavery was really big in the United States‚ because slaves contributed a lot to
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The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture is a collection of essays that all revolve the central theme of the “geography of Civil War memory.” As editors Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh explain in their introduction‚ that geography incorporated both “physical and symbolic spaces” (2). The memory of the Civil War has been contested in numerous arenas and over the course of time; the strengths of this volume are the wide array of subjects it covers and how it shows change over time. In broad terms
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average level of import duties o National Banking Act—created uniform system of banking and currency o Transcontinental railroad legislation o Homestead Act of 1862—Congress voted free federal homesteads of 160 acres to settlers o Morrill Land Grant Act—conveyed to each state 30‚000 acres of federal land per Congress member Devastation in the South South contrasted to North o Ruin and desolation Property values collapsed o Bonds and paper money was worthless o Expansion of cotton
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Around one hundred fifty years ago‚ two superior‚ enemy armies faced each other outside a crossroads town in Pennsylvania. Neither army’s commander planned to battle at Gettysburg‚ but the assault took on a life of its own as soldiers in blue and gray rushed to the noise of bullets whizzing past them. Here‚ the battle would last for three days‚ leaving approximately 7‚000 Americans dead and 30‚000 wounded. The “vain and bad-tempered” (“Killer”)‚ man Meade was ordered to take command of the Union
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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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