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    He was killed while celebrating his win in the California presidential primary in June of 1968. The carpetbagger problem at first gave rise to jocularity. “What gave the carpetbagger charge its edge was the idea that the invasion of New York was one more expression of Kennedy’s well-advertised and ruthlessness- a power grab by a madly ambitious‚ arrogant‚ opportunistic‚ primitive and dangerous

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    achieved social equality. To conclude: even with all the amendments and new laws‚ America has immensely abortive in obtaining successful political‚ economic‚ and social equality. As long as there is the opposition of freedmen‚ Freedmen’s Bureau‚ Carpetbaggers‚ K.K.K. members‚ and other groups‚ the nation would continue remaining dysfunctional. To others‚ learning the extent of the Reconstruction Era unsuccessfully achieving political‚ economic‚ and social equality‚ may help historians and others by

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    “Now he belongs to the ages”. (Edwin Stanton) With a single shot of John Wilkes Booth’s pistol‚ the greatest President that ever served America was dead. With the Civil War barely over and with the country in a complete state of moral and political chaos‚ Abraham Lincoln’s death could not have come at a worse time. (1) The great leader‚ the brave revolutionary‚ the progressive politician – Abraham Lincoln was the man who held an ever-changing America together‚ the only candidate to lead America

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    In the cartoon at the top we see a large group of white men some holding weapons. These bystanders are southern men wanting to stop the unity but cannot as they are bound from it in their balcony. Carpetbagger: South During the reconstruction period the south began to flood with carpetbaggers trying to help reconstruct the south to the northern ways. The south saw this as a threat to their southern tradition. In the Cartoon it shows a southern woman carrying a huge carpetbag across rough grounds

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    Terms to Know 13th Amendment: Abolished slavery. First of three "Reconstruction Amendments" passed after Civil War (1865-70) 14th Amendment: (1) All persons born in the U.S. are citizens; (2) no person can be deprived of life‚ liberty or property without due process of law; (3) no state can deprive a person of equal protection of the laws. Second of three "Reconstruction Amendments" passed after Civil War. 15th Amendment: States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race. Third

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    Reconstruction: America Rises Again The Reconstruction of America lasted twelve years‚ between 1865 and 1877. The most damage was in the South. One of the problems was starvation. Thousands of hundreds of slaves died of diseases and starvation after they were liberated . About 620‚000 men died of starvation‚ disease‚ accident or in combat during the Civil War. Because of how bad the sicknesses were twenty-five percent of four million freed slaves suffered from illness or died between

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    Terms Summary 1) Robert Smalls Robert Smalls was a slave in South Carolina. He became a Union hero in 1862 when he escaped from slavery by stealing a Confederate ship from Charleston harbor and piloting it to the blockading federal fleet. Thereafter‚ Smalls guided Union gunboats and toured the North recruiting black troops. He eventually became a Congressman and fought for educational and economic opportunities for African Americans. 2) Wade Hampton Wade Hampton was a South Carolina legislator

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    American was suffering the consequences of having a Civil War. The aftermath brought great destruction between the Union and Confederate. Reconstruction was a new era to unify and rebuild the United States. During Reconstruction the political impact was that it gave few rights to African Americans‚ the social impact was that they wanted African Americans to have a normal lifestyle‚ and the economic impact was that African Americans shouldn’t be allowed to associate with the government. The political

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    take back control of political power and did so with fear tactics. Aside from killing and intimidating black people‚ they did the same to white political opponents (Openstax‚ 480). Another group of people the KKK strongly disliked were “carpetbaggers.” Carpetbaggers were northern businessmen who traveled south in search of wealth and power (Openstax‚ 480). Essentially‚ during reconstruction‚ the south became a battleground to the southerners. The now freed african americans and northerners traveling

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    industrialization of the South. Is William Marshall a "Carpetbagger"? Explain your answer. People of the North had many reasons for being interested in the industrialization of the South. There was a whole new group of people able to work. You could pay them much less than the people in the North. This meant more money for themselves. There was also a lot more land to build factories on. Depending on how you look at it Marshall could and couldn’t be a carpetbagger. He did not move to the South; instead‚ he

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