The American Civil War‚ also known as the War Between the States‚ was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America after seven Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South"). The states that remained in the Union were known as the "Union" or the "North". The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery‚ especially the extension of slavery into the western territories. Foreign powers did
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but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges. Under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866‚ new southern state legislatures passed restrictive "black codes" to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. Outrage in the North over these codes eroded support for the approach known as Presidential Reconstruction and led to the triumph of the more radical wing
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the Civil War is known as the Reconstruction period which lasted until 1877. During this period‚ the rebuilding of the South began. The federal government set conditions that the Southern states would have to abide by in order to enter back into the Union. One of the conditions of the South’s re-admittance into the Union was that there must be civil and political equality for blacks. This meant that governments and social systems had to be reestablished in these states. Freedom became a source of conflict
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the differences between De Jure and De Facto‚ law and reality. The opposition has raised evidence‚ that‚ on paper‚ supports Northern victory. However‚ this evidence is merely allusion clouding the true political atmosphere of America following Reconstruction. The reality is a desperate republican party‚ struggling for a hold in the South. The compromise of 1877 is startling proof of this desperation. Rutherford Hayes gave up a seat in his cabinet to a democrat‚ funding for the Texas Pacific Railroad
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Outline for 1996 DBQ 1. Opening paragraph: In 1860 through 1877 was a time of change and social development as the United States of America was freshly out of the civil war. -Fluff‚ facts‚ when the civil war started ended. -Thesis the ways in which the social change mounted to form a revolution would involve (List the documents main reasons) (Doc. C‚ D‚ E‚ F‚ G‚ I) 2. Body paragraphs: 1. Condone what the information says in documents C/D on how the black man can be trusted with a gun
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DBQ 10: Reconstruction’s Failure Congress Reconstruction efforts to ensure equal right to freedom failed because the enforcement acts that was giving in Document 2‚ Prejudice in the south giving Benjamin Boyer’s speech and from the book “Black Reconstruction in America” in document 6‚ another reason was the Compromise of 1877. In the exert from the New York times‚ it states the Ku Klux Klan purpose was to establish a nucleus around which the adherents of the late rebellion might safely rally
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After the murder of Abraham Lincoln‚ the United States was left without a wise leader‚ in this panic and loss of a president‚ Andrew Johnson was elected. Johnson was an Unionist and was hated‚ for his excessive use of his pardoning power‚ by the Radicals‚ state governments and moderate Republicans. Southerns would elect leaders that served the confederacy and that would instal “Black codes”‚ these codes would beat down African American’s civil rights and push them to being slaves again. From violences
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between the whites and blacks of the South and just how much freedom should be given to freed blacks or if freeing them was the greatest course of action. Essentially land owning‚ free white men lost vast amounts of property in the exchange. The Reconstruction period was not easy coming and put even more pressure on a sour split and integrating newly freed slaves into a white society was a difficult task. During Mark Twain’s time race relations had ups and downs (probably more downs). Much like how
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Robert E. Lee’s surrender plans for Reconstruction were taken over by Vice President Andrew Johnson‚ who became president after Lincoln’s death President Andrew Johnson he agreed with Lincoln’s idea that sooner the country could reunite‚ the sooner it could heal. President Johnson believed patience was called for in changing the social structure of the South. It would take time for Southerners to accept black citizens as equals. Radical Republicans The southern states and former Confederates to be severely
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Democrats reclaimed power in the South‚ while the Republicans remained in power in both the Senate and the White House. In doing so‚ they did sacrifice their goals of complete southern Reconstruction in order to win the election. Former slaves lost all federal protection and conditions in the South were returned to a state only marginally better than slavery. However‚ before ending reform efforts‚ the Republicans did manage to improve social and economic conditions for African Americans living in the
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