His 132 Ch 16-17 1. The Liberal Republicans of the early 1870s a. splintered their party and weakened Reconstruction policies b. strengthened the national dominance of the Republican Party c. called for more radical democratic reforms in the South d. rejected ideas that espoused the “scientific” superiority of whites 2. Which statement about the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction is NOT true? a. Republican governors never created policies that resulted in the arrest of members b. They
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7. How did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case? 8. What was Abraham Lincoln’s stand on racial equality? 9. What was the pepper seed test supposed to prove? 10. What was Abraham Lincoln’s long term solution to slavery in the United States? 11. How did both sides in the slavery issue try to use religion and the Bible to justify their stand on slavery? 12. Define/ Identify: secede‚ sharecropping‚ 13. What were the main causes of the Civil War? 14. How did the Union Army
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developments that will be mentioned. The first one is the secession of 1860‚ which was a constitutional development. Some other constitutional developments that caused conflict were the Emancipation Proclamation‚ three civil rights bills‚ and the reconstruction. Some social developments that caused conflict were the Freedmen’s Bureau‚ the Black Codes‚ and the Ku Klux Klan. One of the social developments was the Freedmen’s Bureau. The Freedmen’s Bureau was supposed to give Homesteads to the freed
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Lemar Griffin Reconstruction April 28‚ 2011 Professor Eisenberg What was the cause for segregation in the south? The Day Freedom Died and When did Southern Segregation Begin are two books that cover events that happened during the Reconstruction period. Charles Lane through his political and social analysis shines an illuminating light on one of America’s more sordid events. The Colfax Massacre gained national attention so much that the event
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Written Reflection: The Reconstruction Era: 500 Nations‚ Attack on Culture The attack on culture is taught so much differently when you are learning about such things in regular‚ high school history classes. We are given an idea of how the Natives were thrown from their land and homes‚ but not a lot of in depth information to it. Many Natives welcomes the White people onto their land and into their homes‚ willingly‚ offering help and a kind hand. This is something that is not completely understood
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The reconstruction era was an era of rebuilding after the civil war. The united states handled the success of the reconstruction era in a variety of ways from well (political) to poorly (social) The social equality for freed slaves was a major point in the reconstruction. The political freedom of the former slaves was one of the best handled points of the reconstruction. When the thirteenth amendment was passed it stated that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude … shall exist in the United states”
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between free and slave states. Slavery was also a big issue between the Democrats in the 1860 election because they could not agree on the issue of popular sovereignty. This eventually led to their splitting which opened up the doors for Lincoln to take office. After Lincoln was inaugurated in 1860 seven states ceded and later four more. The south believed they were within their constitutional right to cede. In South Carolina’s Declaration of Causes for Session the state says‚ "Powers not delegated
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enslaved African Americans in the south. This caused issues between the North and the South because the South tried to keep the blacks from attaining rights while the North having radical republicans was trying to give them right. Congressional Reconstruction failed to achieve lasting civil rights for the freemen and because even with the rights the freemen and women were still treated just as if they were slaves. The radical republicans believed blacks were entitled to the same political
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reintegrate into the nation? Would the Confederate states be treated as conquered territories? Who would set the standards for readmission- Congress or the president? Most important what would happen to the 3.5 million former slaves? Reconstruction Politics (1865-1868) National politics produced new constitutional amendments‚ a presidential impeachment‚ and some of the most ambitious domestic legislation ever enacted by Congress‚ The Reconstruction Act of 1867-1868. In 1865‚ only a small group of politicians
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upheaval can be had without negative consequence and‚ coming on the heels of the most violent war in American History‚ Reconstruction was no exception. Given the fierce determination of the North to remake southern society and the stubborn ferocity in the south to reclaim their former lives‚ the African-Americans faced worse and more violent conditions during the Reconstruction period than they had during slavery. The harder the radicals in the north pressed down upon the south‚ the harder the
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