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    Marcus Pando Period 4 Chapter 22 Key Terms Describe and state the historical significance of the following: 7. Freedmen’s Bureau Initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. At the end of the war‚ the Bureau’s main role was providing emergency food‚ housing‚ and medical aid to refugees‚ though it also helped reunite families. Later‚ it focused its work on helping the freedmen adjust to their conditions of freedom. Its

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    Caroline Chase APUSH Words to Know Test 4 1/9/13 Manifest Destiny‚ the 1850’s‚ The Civil War & Reconstruction Manifest Destiny & the 1850’s What is “manifest destiny”? : Manifest destiny is Americans thinking they’re the shit and can tear down anyone who stands in their way (Mexico‚ British in Oregon Country‚ and Southwest) Land=crack and they are never satisfied. Manifest destiny means that the U.S was entitled to land by GOD Battle of the Alamo/Lone Stare State: Battle

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    Lesson 1.01: Geography Lesson 1.02: Set the Stage Lesson 1.03: The Civil War The Big Ideas What were the main differences between the North and South prior to the Civil War? What were the economic causes of the Civil War? What were the political causes of the Civil War? What were the social causes that contributed to the Civil War? What were the economic consequences of the Civil War? What were the political consequences of the Civil War?

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    Across the South‚ the implementation of Reconstruction policies was achieved in multiple ways. While not always a success‚ Reconstruction had a definitive impact on the social‚ cultural economic and financial issues in states throughout the South. It is not clear whether or not Reconstruction was more beneficial to the country or harmful‚ but it is true‚ without a doubt‚ that it had an enormous impact on the Southern states. Both Gilles Vandal and Horace Bond in their articles discuss the impact

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    harsher than the original KKK and have a different message that the first and second K.K.K in the United States. The "first" Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by general Nathan Bedford Forrest. This original KKK was used for intimidating carpetbaggersscalawags ‚ and freed slaves. During this time period "the organization’s aims were more in the spirit of "mischief" than terrorism" (Williams‚ 37). It was at first a social club that focused on "jokes" and hazing rituals.

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    HOTA RECONSTRUCTION QUIZ STUDY GUIDE Aftermath Lost cause: the confederates longed for that time when all was well and they were a “perfect” place where slavery was allowed and now they see their “movement” as a lost cause. Everything they fought for was in vain and now they lost everything. Potential opportunities from emancipation: now that slaves were freed‚ opportunities had been opened up to them. Black men could now vote‚ the freedmen’s bureau provided food to former slaves and

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    saved the southern way of life and white culture. Foner articulated this viewpoint as such‚ “vindictive Radical Republicans fastened black supremacy upon the defeated South‚ unleashing an orgy of corruption presided over by unscrupulous carpetbaggers‚ traitorous scalawags‚ and ignorant freedmen.”2 The next school of thought presented came into being during the 1960s during the civil rights movements at a time when the US was experiencing a fundament shift in race relations. As a white dominated society

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    were considered much more conservative than the Klan and they were generally less violent. Its members were pledged to support the supremacy of the white race‚ to oppose the uniting of the races‚ to resist the social and political seizing of the carpetbaggers‚ and to restore white control of the government (Cantrell‚ 2005). The Knights of the White Camellia was organized in New Orleans in May 1867 by Col. Alcibiade DeBlanc and soon spread throughout the lower South‚ reaching as far west as Central

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    Unit 5 Diane Arias PI: Panic of 1857: broke out due to California gold inflating the currency and over-speculation in land and railroads. Two groups opposed the idea: Eastern industrialists feared that the free land would drain its supply of workers and the South feared that the West would fill up with free-soilers who would form anti-slavery states‚ unbalancing the Senate even more. The Tariff of 1857 lowered duties to about 20%. North blamed it for causing the panic‚ because they felt they needed

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    The Murders of the Mississippi Summer Project Member and the Birth the 1965 Voting Rights Act SOCI140 Essay February 6‚ 2011 The nefarious act in1964 marked the historic event that changed America history. The Mississippi Summer Project traveled to Mississippi to encourage African America citizens to practice their First Amendment rights. Mississippi was a state known for apartheid‚ bias‚ and contemptuousness enforcement. The civil rights supports traveled though Mississippi retrieving votes

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