Part 1 questions 1. In "Daybreak Express" what happens with the beat of the music and the tempo? The beat and tempo would go high and low. It sounded like a train 2. What mode of transportation was a favorite of Ellington’s and is imitated in several of his songs? Ellingtons favorite transportation was the train. 3. What song was the theme song of Duke Ellington’s band? The theme song was “Sophisticated Lady”. 4. What instrument does Ellington use to set the mood or rhythm
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The lives of African Americans in the South during 1865 to 1905 changed immensely due to the mindset of the South in the political‚ economic‚ and social spheres of life. To begin‚ in politics‚ the policies regarding the African American citizens who always changing. Immediately after the conclusion of the Civil War‚ President Johnson passed a series of laws called the Black Codes that restricted the rights of the newly freed citizens. The African Americans had very similar conditions to those prior
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Perry Shingala February 8‚ 2011 Period 5 IBHOA CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION ESSAY America between 1865 and 1876 was very broken and disunited due to the obvious Civil War. There was much effort put in my various powers to put together America again and attain the unity preferably desired by the central governing body. Both the Congress and the Citizenry participated to remedy the discretely disunited states. President Johnson‚ who took office right after Lincoln against the radical republicans
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Prompt: What were the long-term economic‚ social‚ and political effects of Reconstruction? The United States was challenged with many issues after the Civil War like crop lien work contracts‚ segregation‚ and unresolved problems with the seceded states. This period was called Reconstruction. After the Civil War‚ African Americans were free but with no place to live in or to work at‚ they settled with their former ‘masters’. African Americans were technically free‚ but no one wanted to hire a colored
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Reconstruction of 1865 In 1865‚ President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilksbooth‚ which led Vice President Andrew Johnson to take over the role as president. In effect‚ this started the beginning of Johnson’s reconstruction plan. The reconstruction plan was to free the slaves and to try to rejoin the union in as little time as possible. This effected the African Americans in many different ways as their economic‚ social‚ and political patterns were changed drastically. Yet‚ some southern African
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Kevin Kurten Son Mai History 202 1 March 2013 Essay 1 Option 2 Between 1865 and 1910‚ the U.S. economy was regarded as impressive‚ but also exploitative. This period encompasses the Reconstruction‚ the Gilded Age‚ and the Progressive Era‚ and contains the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of immigration in the United States. This period of quick economic growth and rising prosperity saw the U.S. become the world ’s leading economic‚ industrial and agricultural power. The U
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United States has been ensured as an indivisible country by the victory of the North in the American Civil War‚ but in the course of the conflict much had been destroyed. The second war aim‚ the abolition of slavery was achieved only partially. Reconstruction The victory over the Confederate States (Southern) had the most productive agricultural region of the country economically ruined and destroyed its rich culture. The legal abolition of slavery also meant no equality of former slaves. Immediately
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The South resisted all attempts at Reconstruction at every turn in an attempt to keep slavery and undermine African American social‚ political and economic opportunities. Reconstruction (1865-1877) is the time in which former confederate states were re-entered into the Union. During this time‚ the South was divided into military districts‚ and occupied by Union soldiers. It was a period in which opportunities for former slaves were expanded‚ as well as a period of unrest and resistance from the South
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I. The Problems of Peace I.After the war‚ there were many questions over what to do with the free Blacks‚ such as how to reintegrate the Southern states into the Union‚ what to do with Jefferson Davis‚ and who would be in charge of Reconstruction? II.The Southern way of life had been ruined‚ as crops and farms were destroyed‚ the slaves had been freed‚ the cities were burnt down‚ but still‚ and many Southerners remained defiant. II. Freedmen Define Freedom I.At first‚ the freed Blacks
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This survey paper will explore the early events of Reconstruction during and immediately after the Civil War. The topics that will be addressed in this survey paper will be the Thirteenth Amendment‚ the Freedmen ’s Bureau‚ the Black Code‚ the Fourteenth Amendment and finally some political and social achievements of Reconstruction. Reconstruction to African Americans began as a feeling of joy and triumph for their freedom which was taken away quicker than it took to receive but it just wasn ’t
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