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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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    and 46% black ten years later). As the war-ravaged southern city of Atlanta was being physically reconstructed‚ the recently freed African Americans experienced a Reconstruction that was both different and similar to the Reconstruction white people experienced as both groups adjusted to life in a post-slavery era. During Reconstruction‚ African American women in particular experienced different types of freedom beyond being freed from a condition of slavery: economic freedom‚ political freedom‚ the

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    Reconstruction The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 gave approximately 4 million slaves their freedom‚ but the rebuilding of the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) made a new set of significant challenges known. Under President Andrew Johnson’s administration in 1865 and 1866‚ new legislatures in southern states passed definitive “black codes” that controlled the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. The North was furious over these codes that support

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    Reconstruction after the civil war even though worked years later‚ at the time was a complete failure at the attempt to fix the country. During this time the North while trying to help bring the economy back up in the south tried to fight for the rights of the African Americans in the South as well as to bring rights to the colored. People will argue and try to justify that it was successful because it passed the 3 main amendments of the time (which will be discussed later). Today yes those amendments

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    Growing Pains” Reconstruction and Industrialization 1865-1900 Four years after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter the Civil War ended with the Union’s Victory over the Confederacy. Though the war was over‚ there were still many problems that needed to be resolved in order to reunite the states as a nation. The time period in which steps were taken to rebuild the nation is known as reconstruction. Reconstruction lasted from 1865 until 1877. The influence of reconstruction can be seen in

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    The years 1865 to 1877 mark a period of reconstruction in which the country’s main focus was to heal the nation and bring the Confederate states back into the Union. Reconstruction took place in two distinct phases: presidential reconstruction‚ which was extremely lenient‚ and Congressional reconstruction‚ which was less forgiving‚ but more transformative. Presidential reconstruction had very limited success because President Andrew Johnson was swayed by Southern praise and became something of an

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    Effects Of Reconstruction

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    Reconstruction Reconstruction started in 1865‚ its purpose‚ to rebuild and reunite the south after the war. The results of reconstruction is that it failed. People were not seeing results fast enough‚ and thought that going back to how it was before would bring back the stability. The people who are majorly affected by reconstruction were the blacks. They were looked down upon as less than‚ this cause them to be excluded from new industries. Jim Crow laws‚ the laws separating the blacks from the

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    1860-1877 Revolution

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    revolution is "A sudden or momentous change in a situation". This could not any better summarize the change in America between 1860 and 1877. The United States went from bitter fortress of agriculture to a progressive nest ready to nurture the coming of industry. Radical changes in the treatment of non-whites‚ as well as a move to the city marked the beginning of a new era. The immense cultural and constitutional changes caused by the 13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th amendments were to say the least‚ unprecedented

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    Economic History 1866-1940 There was a variety of economic events and crisis’ in the history of the United States of America between 1866-1940. During this time‚ the Gilded Age was well known for the rise of employment and rapid development within the U.S. economy. However‚ this was overshadowed by the Great Depression‚ one of the lowest points economically in the country. Regardless of economic uncertainty‚ one man‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ amassed a great wealth to be unmatched in U.S. history‚ greatly

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    Failure of Reconstruction

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    Anthony Kerkula JrJoseph Myers HIS 120 October 2‚ 2014 Failure of Reconstruction Reconstruction was the period from 1865-1877 where the government of the United States tried to put the country together again after the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln lived briefly during this period (assassinated) and set the template for reconstruction. The Vice President Andrew Johnson who is described as lacking Lincoln’s moral sense and political judgment‚ became President and followed the template while

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