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    Assignment 1: Reconstruction and Race Relations In partial fulfillment of the requirements for HIS105 1865‚ slavery was Abolished from the from the Thirteenth Amendment that was approved In January‚ Congress created The Bureau of Refugees‚ Freedmen‚ and Abandoned land also known as The Freedmen’s Bureau in March‚ this bureau was created to assist Southern blacks and whites in the transition from society based slavery to freedom from the south for one year. The resone for

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    The main goal of Reconstruction was to reunite the Union without causing major conflicts with the South so America could become whole again. Another goal was to have minorities get civil rights in America and not treated less than others. I believe that some of these goals were not fully met but should have been. In the Civil Rights view‚ goals that minorities had were not met‚ and the goals Lincoln had were also not met. Eventually‚ long-term accomplishments came out of this part of American history

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    Chapters 35-47 is mostly telling how Eric and Dylan came up with the plan they came to call Judgement Day. The chapters were a detailed report of how they came to the plan and also how their lives were at home and out of school. They were very different from each other‚ but both came to the same conclusion in the end of their terror. Dylan was found to have been full of anger and hate. The investigators found proof of this when they searched the homes of the shooters. Dylan suffered from depression

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    Lincoln’s words and his vision of the path of Reconstruction. After the bloody defeat of the rebellious Southern states in the Civil War‚ America needed peaceful reconciliation and reconstruction. What was intended to be a painless‚ effortless plan turned into another irrelevant conflict that ended up a failure. Although‚ the southern reaction to northern rule was a factor that lead its to failure‚ northern political factors also killed Reconstruction. Initially‚ southern reaction to the northern

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    The reconstruction Era was full of hardships and pain‚ but in the end was a very important period of time. The South was the most affected by the civil war and reconstruction because it was the side that wanted to split in the first place. After the civil war‚ the South had to agree to stop slavery before they could join back into the United States. Reconstruction was hard for African Americans because many white men didn’t treat them equal. The economy was a failure because many African Americans

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    victory which set millions of slaves free. The south was in ruins after they fought a defensive war and Reconstruction was introduced. With Lincoln in charge‚ many people looked forward to the future after the long Civil War. The first step was encouraging people to abandon the Confederacy and to come back into the union. This is where the complications started to be revealed. During the reconstruction period‚ the freedmen had big hopes now that they had their freedom. After president Lincoln was assassinated

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    I think that Reconstruction was a success because of its effects later in history. Although it had many bad things come out of it at the beginning‚ in the long run‚ it greatly helped get African-Americans rights. It also opened the South’s economy up to more industrial businesses‚ to gain more finances. First of all‚ African-American rights were non-existent before Reconstruction. Negroes‚ a nicer term for African-Americans‚ were seen as lesser beings that didn’t deserve rights equal to Whites. But

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    The biggest challenge of The Reconstruction Era was creating laws that would work to create equality‚ but laws aren’t always the answer in creating equality especially between whites and blacks. Although the 13th amendment had occurred and slaves were freed and given a "helping hand" to start a new‚ free life‚ that amendment did not help all that much. Later on the blacks were given The Freedmen’s Bureau to get help in resources and finding new opportunities‚ the bureau did try to do as much as

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    CASE ANALYSIS-ERIK PETERSON INTRODUCTION The case study is about the numerous issues being faced by Eric Peterson‚ the general manager of Green Mountain Cellular Telephone (GMCT‚ a cellular mobile system) in setting up a new cellular operation of the company on time. GMCT is already a month behind the target and the revised target-on-date has been decided as Apr 1(from Feb1) which is just 3 weeks away .In order to address this‚ Peterson is scheduled to meet Knight‚ the director of its parent

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    illegal‚ and the new political climate was a huge victory for the oppressed minority‚ the slaves. However‚ slave owners in the south were very unhappy with the outcome of the war‚ and as a whole the south’s struggle to recover after the Civil War is known as the “Reconstruction”. A large majority of this reconstruction was based on rebuilding infrastructure in the south that was damaged or destroyed by Union soldiers during the war. It is important to note that the Reconstruction had a variety of

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