2013 After the Civil War‚ America was supposed to have been united in ways to bring the country to the forefront of the world. Yet‚ the South‚ being highly upset at the loss of the war‚ was not going to give in so easily. They still believed that the North were nothing but bullies and wanted to infringe on their rights as American citizens. So‚ still in the South‚ the blacks were suffering. Slavery was now deemed illegal in the states‚ thanks to the 13th Amendment‚ and blacks had an abundance
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Week 1 RECONSTRUCTION-Reading Assignments: Norton et al.‚ A People and A Nation chapter 16‚ Portrait of America chapter 1 “The Checkered History of the fourteenth Amendment “quiz Identification Terms: Freedmen’s Bureau Tenure of Office Act Ku Klux Klan Scalawags Enforcement Acts Carpetbaggers Compromise of 1877 Sharecropping Reconstruction Acts of 1867 Crop Lien 14th Amendment Black Codes 15th Amendment Week 1 WESTERN SETTLEMENT –Reading assignment Norton A People and A Nation
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Retrieved from http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Cattle_drives.aspx Mitchell‚ P. B. (2013)‚ “Cooking for the cause.” Retrieved from http://www.civilwar.org/education/pdfs/civil-war-curriculum-food.pdf Nicely‚ B.J. (2011). What IF #5—How would have Reconstruction been different if Lincoln had not died on April 15‚ 1865? Retrieved from http://deeprunwildcats.org/nicely/?p=631 The American Civil War (2013). Retrieved from http://www.ducksters.com/history/civil_war/ life_as_asoldier_during_the_civil_war.php
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Wanted ... But ... So ... President Abraham Lincoln the nation to heal as quickly as possible from the Civil War and planned to reunify the nation quickly he was assassinated in 1865 only days after 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 Change for the south which he felt takes time. Radicals believed that the south couldn’t change if former confederates
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The term Bourbon refers to the white rulers throughout the South at the end of the Reconstruction period. The Bourbons were democrats who ruled Louisiana until well into the 20th century. After 1877 cotton and sugar planters along with wealthy New Orleans businessmen reigned over the state; many of them were sons or grandsons of those that ruled before the Civil War. The Bourbon Democrats of Louisiana quickly realized that they would not be able to completely return to the plantation South of 1860
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America was divided on many important matters‚ especially how she would reconstruct what had been destroyed. Racism was rampant through the reconstruction era‚ imperialism‚ and continuing on until today‚ and Christianity was there responding and reacting to the culture at every stage.
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of 1877 resulted the end Reconstruction‚ and the withdrawal of federal troops from the South. 14. The seque3nce of presidential terms of the ‘forgettable presidents’ of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland’s two non-consecutive terms) was Hayes‚ Garfield‚ Arthur‚ Cleveland‚ Benjamin Harrison‚ and Cleveland. 15. In the 1896 case of Plessy vs. Ferguson‚ the Supreme Court ruled that ‘separate but equal’ facilities were constitutional. 16. At the end of Reconstruction‚ Southern whites disenfranchised
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The Native-American and African-American communities in the united states have undergone countless adversities since before the birth of America. The South held a stronghold on the institution of slavery‚ while American colonists robbed the indigenous people of their land and culture. After the civil war‚ however‚ the conditions of both groups changed dramatically. The residual tribes were driven to reservations and the slaves were freed. In the years immediately succeeding the war‚ blacks‚ due to
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of the races during the reconstruction period. The book was also cited to counter arguments for segregation so often that Martin Luther King Jr. called it “the historical Bible of the civil rights movement.” One thing that is very interesting about the Jim Crow system is that it started in the North before it moved to the South. In the 1830’s slavery was for the most part abolished in the north with only about 3‚500 blacks remaining in bondage in the mainly free states. The northern free black
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After the Civil War came the Reconstruction Era. During the Reconstruction Era they passed an act called the 14th amendment and it was to free the blacks from being slaves. Although blacks had freedom‚ but they still were not free from society because a lack of resources and racism that kept blacks in slavery. A lack of resources kept blacks in slavery. Blacks soon realized that being free made them feel great but it did not mean they were going to be successful and have everything in the palm of
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