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    An “Era of Reconstruction” (578‚ Shi) as our America: A Narrative History textbook calls it‚ lasted a little over ten years and aimed to fuse the nation back together while also integrating the four-million freed slaves with those who had enslaved them for hundreds of

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    Wal-Mart Group Case Study Team A Westley Bisson‚ Leah Bond‚ Ken Chrapkowski‚ Lisa Cochran‚ Christopher Cooper MGMT560PA – Ethics in a Global Marketplace June 17‚ 2012 Dr. Roger Fuller Southwestern College Professional Studies Wal-Mart Group Case Study Team A’s paper will provide an in-depth review of Wal-Mart’s ethical challenges at home and abroad along with how Wal-Mart continues to make corporate social responsibility a priority in its business across the globe. The teams review begins

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    2009). If the above has been researched and evaluated carefully‚ you can then position your product well with the other 3’P’s: Place‚ Promotion and Price. Yet‚ Kellogg’s with their over-confidence just gambled on the economics and here too they failed miserably. While considering economics in 1994‚ they considered the overall population. Mr. Bhagirat B. Merchant‚ at that time director of the Bombay Stock Exchange‚ agreed on this when he stated‚ “Even if Kellogg’s has only a two percent market

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    The reconstruction era of 19th Century provided a platform for the civil rights movement that followed in the 20th Century and created history. The aim of the reconstruction plan was to provide economic and racial equality to all the American citizens by abolishing slavery and ensuring the basic human rights to all citizens. However‚ due to the social and political structure of the period‚ many were skeptical of these policies and so the reconstruction program failed. Nevertheless‚ the spirit of

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    Reconstruction had multiple failures and some successes. It’s pretty much agreed on by many historians that the idea of reconstruction was a failure. The Civil War preserved the Union and freed the slaves. However‚ during Reconstruction‚ a lack of political focus on the effort failed to solve the sectional wounds‚ and the elimination of the freed slaves’ new gained civil liberties failed to bring about long-term racial integration. Through the primary sources of: The Emancipation Proclamation by

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    RECONSTRUCTION‚ WHAT WENT WRONG I. Historiography of Reconstruction A. Early Views Journalists‚ Poets‚ & Rebels Negative view of Reconstruction Sidney Andrews‚ The South Since the War (1866) John Dennett‚ The South as It Is. Southern frame of reference Sidney Lanier (poet) Attempt to justify Civil War B. Early Professional Historians John Ford Rhodes Ohio Democrat Not impartial Blamed North for problems of Reconstruction’ Claimed Black Rule

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    Reconstruction of the South should have ended the moment it started. Reconstruction was the period after the civil war (1865-1877) in which the nation tried to rebuild itself. There was a great effort in trying to rebuild the nation and figure out what to do with the freedmen. There was also a problem with who would pay for the South’s reconstruction. The North wanted equality for the African-American slaves and the South lacked interest in equality. This was a major factor in the death of reconstruction

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    To what extent was the era of Reconstruction a “false dawn” for African Americans in the Southern state of the United States of America? 1863 - 1877 During the era of construction‚ African Americans were led to believe that things were about to change for them. The emancipation proclamation introduced by Lincoln had been passed in 1863‚ which immediately entitled freedom to 50‚000 slaves. They were now free‚ no longer tied down by the restrictions of slavery‚ which meant things could be done to

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    The Reconstruction era was put into effect by Congress in 1866 and lasted until 1877. Reconstruction was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War. The reconstruction plan granted the means for readmitting the southern states into the Union‚ and tried to come up with the methods by which whites and blacks could live together in a non-slave society. America’s position as a country was established on principles of freedom but those beliefs were weakened by slavery. At the end

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    RECONSTRUCTION: WHO WON THE PEACE? The North may have won the war‚ but they did a horrible job in trying to win the peace. The south had their new form of slavery‚ which was contained in the "Black Codes"; laws passed throughout the South that laid heavy restrictions on what‚ who‚ and where African-Americans could be. President Johnson saw that the only way to get the freedmen as subordinates again was to let the south back in he started signing pardons so fast that they had to assign an office

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