What If It Had Succeeded?”. In this case‚ Ms. Barmell expresses her opinion about why Reconstruction didn’t succeed in the U.S. Barmell addresses that many American schools were taught about the positive side of Reconstruction‚ how Abraham Lincoln ended slavery and the Union Army won the Civil War. However‚ not many individuals were taught about Black Codes‚ Jim Crow laws‚ Freedmen’s Bureau‚ and so on. The
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western territories. Foreign powers did not intervene. After four years of bloody combat that left over 600‚000 soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South’s infrastructure‚ the Confederacy collapsed‚ slavery was abolished‚ and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing rights to the freed slaves began. During the American Civil War‚ Lincoln’s actions broadened the power of the Executive Branch. An example of this is the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation
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Americans perceived‚ Southerners viewed the war as an episode of their journey to salvation. Southern lands may have been destroyed and depleted‚ but the South was persistent that their racial order would not be disrupted. To most‚ the goals of the Reconstruction era were to fully restore the Union‚ and to some‚ grant emancipation and liberty to former slaves. Although the newly freedmen gained various rights and liberties‚ their naïve dreams of complete equality and liberation collapsed due to the immense
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The Laws in the Reconstruction Era and the Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement that started and grew through the years following the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and with the help of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Patterson‚ 2001) marked an important period that accomplished more than ending segregation in cities and unfair rights; it led to the transformation of American social‚ cultural‚ and political life. The civil rights movement did not only demonstrate that
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that the Union had the challenge of figuring out what to do with free slaves. In 1867‚ Congress took control of Reconstruction to establish and protect citizenship rights. Congress had succeeded in many ways like having the Southern states ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to rid the military forces. But‚ by 1877 the Reconstruction had ended‚ all the work done failed‚ and everything reversed. Congress’ Reconstruction efforts to have equal rights for freedmen failed because the Ku Klux Klan intervened
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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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America was divided on many important matters‚ especially how she would reconstruct what had been destroyed. Racism was rampant through the reconstruction era‚ imperialism‚ and continuing on until today‚ and Christianity was there responding and reacting to the culture at every stage.
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After the American Civil War in 1865 the United States entered a period called the Era of Reconstruction. The Civil War left the South in shambles‚ economically‚ infrastructurally‚ and socially. Therefore‚ the responsibility of repairing the South fell on the United States government. The physical damage of the war was the first to be addressed. The government was not only repairing physical damage‚ but economic damage‚ too. The Civil War destroyed the South’s economy‚ with many plantations and farms
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The Civil War and the period of Reconstruction brought great social‚ political‚ and economic changes to American society. The Ku Klux Klan‚ the black codes‚ and tenant farming all effected the United States in different ways. The effects of these changes continued into the 20th century. After the Civil War‚ Lincoln’s main goal was to heal the United States. Our country went through a very long and difficult war for four years. The tension was high between the North and the South now more then
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Graft report Patellar graft The patellar tendon bone-tendon-bone graft has been the "gold standard" graft choice for ACL reconstructions since it became common practice in the mid-1980. It has been used extensively by surgeons since that time and still remains the graft of choice for a high number of orthopedists who perform this surgery regularly. The patellar tendon graft has consistently demonstrated excellent surgical outcomes with a 90-95% success rate in terms of returning to pre-injury level
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