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    Samantha Barschow Ms. Werdmann Reconstruction Web Quest 4 January 2013 Part 1 1. Lincoln offered pardon to those in the South that pledged allegiance to the United States. When 10% of Southerners signed the allegiance‚ the Congress would then reinstate the South into the Union. 2. The opposition they faced was the Radical Republic. They wanted the majority of Southerners to sign the document and they wanted to put the South under military rule. 3. Lincoln was assassinated at the

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    Compare and contrasts Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction‚ the Wade –Davis Bill‚ Johnson’s plan‚ and Radical Reconstruction. Evaluate the successes and failures of Reconstruction. After the Civil War‚ Lincoln began Reconstruction with his Ten Percent Plan‚ which was opposed by Radical Republicans. This plan allows bring states back to the union when 10 percent of voters agree to it. Republicans was against Lincoln because they thought his policy as too merciful‚ and they concerned about the re-enslavement

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    Reconstruction was more than just putting the country back together. It was a period of chaos and freedom. The civil war had just ended and slaves were finally “free”. Slaves did not know what it meant to be free since they had always been someone’s property and never really were able to live their own lives. The rise of actual freedom to former slaves came after the Reconstruction of 1867. Former slaves now had the power to be involved in politics‚ however‚ they were rising in power that led to

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    amendment guaranteed African Americans full civil and political equality. However‚ the end of the civil war and the beginning of the reconstruction era was seen a ‘false dawn for the slaves in the former confederacy and border states. 1865 saw the creation of the freedman bureau to provide food‚ shelter and medical aid and land to ex- slaves. The passing of the 1866 freedman bureau act over President Johnson’s veto meant an extension of work of the bureau. It also included the right of military

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    Civil Rights Act Of 1866

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    Hi I am going to talk about the Freedmen’s Bureau and the civil rights act of 1866. These two things happened after civil the civil war reconstruction. It is all about the blacks in the south. First I’m going to talk about the Freedmen’s bureau. The bureau wants to provide for the black’s. They want to provide homes‚ land‚ food‚ medical‚ jobs‚ education and schools. This group is made up of people who want to help blacks. They also want to provide security. There are only 1000 people to full

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    Reconstruction

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    Reconstruction after the American Civil War By: Alec Decker The period after the Civil War‚ 1865 - 1877‚ was called the Reconstruction period.  Abraham Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War while Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South. He wanted to bring the Nation back together as quick as he can without many complications. In December 1863 he proposed one of his plans to his Reconstruction which required the States to prohibit slavery.

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    1865 which abolished slavery in the United States. This was very important during the Reconstruction period because you now had over 4 million newly freed slaves. The Republicans tried to find new ways to help the newly freed slaves from adding the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment. These amendments were to protect newly free people civil rights and to guarantee that the men had the right to vote. The reconstruction period was unable to employ the newly freed people so they had to go back to plantation

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    DBQ Reconstruction

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    Blaize Giangiulio Mr. Reader AP US II 3 September 2014 From 1860 to 1877 America fought a bloody Civil War and went through a “Reconstructionera from that war. During this time period changes to the Constitution‚ such as the 15th Amendment that granted African American men the right to vote‚ caused what is now viewed as a revolution. The formation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1865 exemplifies a social change that stirred the pot of revolution in a different way. Put together‚ the social and constitutional

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    Period Of Reconstruction

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    The period of Reconstruction‚ lasting from 1865-1876‚ consisted of the years after the Civil War during which Americans made efforts to rebuild their chaotic nation. African Americans were arguably affected by this period the most because it was a small step in the right direction towards securing political and economic rights for former slaves. However‚ the slight improvement of daily life for African Americans didn’t result in much change. Although the North was somewhat successful economically

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    Postbellum Reconstruction:

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    Postbellum Reconstruction: Immediate Success‚ Long Term Failure by Thesis Both the presidency and Congress passed several reforms to attempt to solve all of these problems‚ however the progress that was made during Reconstruction was for the most part shot down by the Compromise of 1877. Outline of the Contents I. Intro—Thesis II. Condition of the South Immediately Following the Civil War III. The Presidential Reconstruction Plan IV. The Congressional Reconstruction Plan V. Economic

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