Who killed Reconstruction? Isn’t that the big question. North or South‚ who do you side with. North with their neglect or south with their resistance against Reconstruction. What is Reconstruction? Reconstruction was the time period after the Civil War‚ 1876 to be exact‚ where the slaves are free and trying to get jobs‚ fix their lives‚ get control again; they even made governments with both white and blacks‚ schools for black kids. That dream die fast though. So who did kill the Reconstruction‚
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AP US HISTORY FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS SINCE 1990 I. Colonial Time 1607 - 1775 1. Throughout the colonial period‚ economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious concerns. Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to economic and religious concerns. (90) 2. For the period before 1750‚ analyze the ways in which Britain’s policy of salutary neglect influenced the development of American society as illustrated
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APUSH Mr. Fair Ch. 17 & 18 Assignments Ch. 17: “Reconstruction‚ 1863-1877” Key topics: competing political plans for reconstructing the South; African American transition from slavery to freedom; political and social legacy of Reconstruction; post-Civil War economic and political transformations of the North. Assignment I: Read pages 568 to 579
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Colonial 1. 1971 “Between 1607 and 1763‚ Americans gained control of their political and economic institutions.” To what extent and in what ways do you agree or disagree with this statement? 2. 1972 What role did unfree labor play in colonial American society? 3. 1973 From 1600 to 1763‚ several European nations vied for control of the North American continent. Why did England win the struggle? 4. 1974 “Puritanism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction.” Apply this generalization
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return for labor. Sharecropping prevented the freedmen from becoming independent landowners because the former slaves were unable to own land and became dependent on the white landowners for food. 6) The compromise that settled the disputed presidential election of 1876 was the Compromise of 1877. The election was disputed because Rutherford B. Hayes had 165 votes while Tilden had 184‚ with 20 votes uncounted. These 20 votes were in contention in the states of Florida‚ Louisiana‚ and South Carolina
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Reconstruction Essay “The battle was done‚ the buglers were silent. Boneweary and bloodied‚ the American people‚ North and South‚ now faced the staggering challenges of peace.” After the Civil War‚ no one knew what to do next. The terrible conditions of the South after the war made it so no one wanted to participate in such a situation. When President Abraham Lincoln held office‚ he knew that the Union must be reassembled while treating the blacks respectfully which began the period of Reconstruction
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White supremacy is an idea that has been circulated throughout societies ever since the concept of race began. Before the Civil War‚ the North and South had been going back and forth on this topic restlessly. The rise of white supremacy movements created great impacts including‚ the specific causes for their rise‚ sections of society involved‚ and southern sociopolitical features. The causes for the rise of white supremacist movements in the South include slavery‚ violence‚ and oppression. Up until
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nation as a whole from 1856 until 1877 and the second one mostly dealt with transitions in the former confederacy from 1863 until 1877 . In the south they mostly worked on their social life and social behaviors as well as their government and how they worked . During this time there were three different Amendments added to the Constitution that affected the entire nation . Reconstruction began and ended at different times in different states but the Compromise of 1877 put an end to it all . But during
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Part One. Reconstruction During the American Civil War‚ the Radical Republicans were a branch of the Republican party that believed in same political rights for blacks and whites and that Confederate leaders should be punished for their crimes. Their main goals were “voting rights for African American men as well as the redistribution of southern plantation lands to free slaves.” Thaddeus Stevens‚ a Radical Republican‚ said “We must “revolutionize Southern institutions‚ habits‚ and manners.”
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restaurants‚ and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated. Jim Crow laws‚ Woodward argued‚ were not part of the immediate aftermath of Reconstruction; they came later and were not inevitable. Following the Compromise of 1877‚ in the 1870s and 1880s there were localized informal practices of racial separation in some areas of society along with what he termed "forgotten alternatives" in others. Finally the 1890s saw white southerners "capitulate to racism" to create
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