race Question 5 10 out of 10 points Which of the following did the congressional Reconstruction program enacted 1866-1867 NOT provide for? Answer Selected Answer: a land reform measure that would grant small tracts of farmland to deserving freedmen Question 6 10 out of 10 points The southern response to war’s end and Johnson’s program of Reconstruction indicated Answer Selected Answer: despair and defiance. Question 7 10 out
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Reconstruction: The Post War Era Lindsay Pone Professor Goldstein History 105 Strayer University 01/30/2013 Reconstruction: The Post Civil War Era Friday April 12‚ 1861‚ America embarked into war with its biggest adversary; America! The American Civil War broke out‚ and what was believed to be a quick battle by the North‚ turned out to be a long bloody four years and left the country devastated. President Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th president of the United
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Lincoln‚ the president of the U.S at the time came up with the plan to re-build the country after the war. He called it Reconstruction Plan. The Reconstruction Plan was put to use right after the war in 1865 and ended in 1877. Within the Reconstruction Plan‚ Lincoln offered a model for reinstatement of Southern states called the 10 percent Reconstruction plan. And also‚ during reconstruction period‚ we witnessed the emerged of Black Code which created the Fourteen and Fifteen Amendments and followed up
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its future was Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a time period in America involving many leaders‚ goals and accomplishments. By the end of the civil war‚ nobody knew what was to be done. With the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865‚ it was up to President Andrew Johnson to try to reunite former enemies. They had to solve one issue; African Americans still continued to serve white southerners on their plantations. Was the Reconstruction a success or a failure? The Reconstruction was more of a
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where Reconstruction went downhill. Although‚ this year celebrated a document symbolizing freedom‚ it is ironic how it also crushed the many hopes and dreams of black Americans living in the south. Reconstruction was the time period after the civil war dating from 1865 to 1877. The two main goals of Reconstruction was to rebuild the South’s economy and to end slavery. It was all going well with the 13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th amendments; it was like a dream come true. Unfortunately‚ Reconstruction ended
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in Congress. In the elections of 1866‚ the Republicans won supermajorities in both houses of Congress and became unstoppable. While Johnson adopted the role of Lincoln‚ that of the staunch unionist‚ Republicans wished to forcibly reform the South. Congress organized the South into military districts‚ granting sole command to itself. Johnson tried to rebuke this‚
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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 in the government for the first time in American history.
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Reconstruction was an attempt to rebuild the South after the Civil War. It was noble in its aspirations; not only was Southern society and its economy to be rebuilt‚ Blacks were to be given rights and freedoms. They were to become Americans at last. However‚ this noble effort was ultimately doomed‚ and would fail. Reconstruction had to address post-war problems‚ and newly-freed blacks would need to be integrated into society‚ however‚ there were radically different ideas about how to approach this;
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Southern region went through changes following the Civil War‚ experiencing two periods: the Reconstruction era and the emergence of the New South. Reconstruction aimed to integrate freed African Americans into society but was cut short by Jim Crow laws and opposition to their autonomy. Economically‚ the South grappled with challenges‚ in agriculture‚ labor shortages‚ and infrastructure issues. The New South era focused on diversification through investments in railroads‚ manufacturing‚ and mining. Faced
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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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