Pauline Abadoya AMH 2020 Professor Miro September 1‚ 2024 Reconstruction Shortly following the Civil War‚ attempts to restore the southern states to the Union and securing the rights for newly freed African American Americans was defined as Reconstruction. While there were some significant progresses made‚ Reconstruction‚ in the long run‚ failed to completely reach its goal. One of the major reasons for the failure of reconstruction was inability to protect the freedmen from the racism they faced
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again‚ there was the creation of many ideas‚ laws‚ amendments‚ and acts that led to what we call the Reconstruction period. The legacy of Reconstruction is good‚ as goals to reunify South and North were achieved. It is also very negative because racial inequalities continued in many different ways as black codes and Jim Crow laws kept blacks from being equal. Starting with the Radical Reconstruction‚ the South was attacked by laws that were intended to make them become states free of black oppression
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worked its way to "reconstruct" our nation. The main purpose of the "Congressional Reconstruction" was to ’establish and protect the citizenship rights of the freedmen’. However‚ the Congress’ Reconstruction efforts did not last too long and came to an end by the year of 1877. The main reasons for the failure of the reconstruction efforts were due to the conflicting views and factors upon the purpose of reconstruction. There were much political opposition from the north and the south as well as from
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Sumner. May I quote William Shakespeare’s Hamlet; “We know what we are‚ but know not what we may be.” With that being said‚ the concept of reconstruction is fraught with great difficulty. We simply must begin with disorganized and discordant elements‚ despite the embarrassment of the fact that we differ among ourselves over the mode‚ manner‚ and means of reconstruction. We all agree that the rebel region is out of their proper relation with the Union; and that the sole object of the government in regard
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and government responded forcefully to union activity. They viewed the union activity as a threat to the capitalist system. The Great Strike of 1877‚ the Haymarket Affair‚ and the Homestead Strike were all strikes that turned violent due to formation of labor unions. These strikes all were trying to gain fair working conditions. The Great Strike of 1877 was workers from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad protesting their second pay cut in two months. This caused other railroads to get backed up and
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Paragraph 2: The opponent’s side may think that the Reconstruction successfully solved problems caused by slavery and the Civil War. They may say this because during the Reconstruction amendments were made which gave the blacks many rights including abolishing slavery and that they were allowed to be citizens if they were born in the United States. In amendment 13 section 1 source 1 it says‚ “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States.” This amendment showed that
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Southern states back into the Union‚ so they passed the Wade-Davis Bill and iron-clad oath which made it difficult for the states to enter or hold an office position. Although Lincoln was against the bills and vetoed them‚ the debate against the Reconstruction plans continued. After Lincoln’s assassination‚ Andrew Johnson hold the presidency
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Freedom Summer comparisons with Era of Reconstruction With the end of the Civil war‚ many blacks felt that they would start reaping the benefits that had been denied from them for years. Being able to vote‚ own land‚ have a voice in political affairs were all goals that they felt were reachable. The era of Reconstruction was the "miracle" they had been searching for. But the South wasn’t going down without a fight and blacks would have to wait at least 100 years for Freedom Summer to arrive
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enraged by the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. This pushed Vice President Andrew Johnson into the presidency and ushered in a period known as Reconstruction‚ which sought to repair the country. Meanwhile‚ the issue of freedmen’s rights became a major political issue that fiercely divided Democrats and Republicans alike. Reconstruction was the best that could have been expected under the circumstances due to the damage from the Civil War‚ a politically inept president‚ and the issue over
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Reconstruction started to go down the hill when Grant wanted to start building and fixing many things throughout the United States. Grant wanted to fix things such as old factories‚ railroad tracks‚ homes‚ and build more business on the open land across the United States. When all of this construction went on across the US‚ the country started to face a big problem in money causing reconstruction to somewhat fall. In 1876 President Ulysses S. Grant’s time as president was up. Therefore‚ the new president
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