Reconstruction Rebuilding the South after the Civil War presented substantial challenges. This challenging period of time following the Civil War from 1865-1877 is known as Reconstruction. It was a time of transformation and a time of turbulence in the South. Abraham Lincoln initially developed a plan for Southern states to rejoin the union (Foner). Over time this plan changed when Lincoln was assassinated and Andrew Johnson became President. Legislation followed to try to resolve the issue of the
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Reconstruction: The Post War Era Lindsay Pone Professor Goldstein History 105 Strayer University 01/30/2013 Reconstruction: The Post Civil War Era Friday April 12‚ 1861‚ America embarked into war with its biggest adversary; America! The American Civil War broke out‚ and what was believed to be a quick battle by the North‚ turned out to be a long bloody four years and left the country devastated. President Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th president of the United
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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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THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA: PRESIDENT JOHNSON VERSUS THE RADICAL REPUBLICANS Abraham Lincoln issued the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction as the Reconstruction plan in 1863‚ two years before the end of civil war. Lincoln proposed the Ten-Percent Plan with a provision requiring the ex-confederate states to rewrite their constitution stating their allegiance to the United States. Those states can be admitted back if ten percent of its eligible voters pledged their loyalty to the Union. Included
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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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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 in the South states. Republicans
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The Reconstruction Era and its effects on Slavery with and after President Lincoln The Reconstruction Era which followed the Civil War was a period marked by a severe effort to re-establish a depleted and distraught society. The war‚ which was aimed at confronting the national dilemma of slavery‚ only led to subsequent problems over emancipation and an undefined condition of freedom. Some‚ who had naively assumed that ending slavery would resolve the problem of racial inequality‚ overlooked the
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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 | his own presidential reconstruction | the congress refused to seat legislators from those states and advanced legislation to overrule the Southern actions | When he persisted in trying to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin Stanton‚
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Evaluate the gains made by the blacks during Reconstruction Reconstruction was during the period of 1865 to 1877‚ where attempts were made to solve the injustices of slavery and its political‚ social and economic legacy and solving the problems that would arise because of the readmission of the eleven states into the Union and has been long portrayed by many historians as a time when vindictive Radical Republicans fastened black supremacy upon the defeated confederacy. Some gains were made by
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Was Reconstruction a “Splendid Failure”? Reconstruction was a failure. It had two main goals‚ which were to bring the South back into the Union and bring blacks into society. These goals were at odds with each other and could not be met at the same time. Therefore‚ Johnson chose the first option and allowed the South within the Union‚ but left the second option basically for people to figure out which was not a success. All in all it was a failure socially‚ economically‚ and politically. Socially
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