Though the Civil War set the stage for the abolition of slavery‚ changes for blacks in America were slow and often met with resistance. The Reconstruction Era was expected to reunify the country and the thirteenth‚ fourteenth‚ and fifteenth amendments made to the constitution‚ passed between 1868 and 1870‚ were intended to assure that African Americans maintained their freedom‚ ability to vote‚ and equal protection under the law. However‚ this period introduced greater social divides and an extreme
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Women’s Suffrage By the end of Lincoln’s Reconstruction Era‚ America’s economy doubled in size from the year 1877 to 1893. This period was trademarked the beginning of the industrial revolution. The revolution was sparked by new developments in the railroad industry and the telegraph. Through the massive industrial boom‚ the federal government failed to evolve its economic policies in accordance with its growing wealth‚ allowing corporations to monopolize certain industries. Almost all industries
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point of view of many Americans‚ as they take different sides almost all the time‚ even in today’s political establishment. During the Reconstruction Era‚ the Democratic party was the party of slavery and business because they were mainly supported in the south and was called “The White Man’s Party” from the Republicans. While the Republican party during this era was the party of the Union and supported African American rights‚ which gave them the name “Negro dominated” by the Democrats‚ even though
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veterans organized the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)‚ a notorious terrorist organization. The Klan initially confined itself to fraternal rituals and riding at night dressed in bizarre costumes‚ but it soon became involved in the bitter politics of the Reconstruction Era. The central question during this period was the future status of the recently emancipated African American population. The federal government’s efforts to grant full civil and political equality to these freedmen fueled white racial hatred
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The victory of the Union after the Civil War had given millions of slaves their freedom. The Reconstruction of the South after the war‚ presented a lot of challenges for the African Americans. African Americans in the south began to lose their rights due to the Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes. African Americans engaged in many leadership roles during the Reconstruction Era. With the African Americans improving their rights and status‚ many whites in the south were disgruntled. Even though the
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African American men the vote. Reconstruction attempted to allow African Americans to be citizens just as White Americans. Blacks could now be a jury member‚ a witness‚ and even be a judge. African American politicians increased in the south. White resistance intensified‚ they did not want African Americans to be equal citizens as they were‚ they did not want to have biracial governments. Blacks began to constantly be under attack or intimidation. The end of reconstruction caused the nature of crime
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Civil War in 1865 positively and negatively affected African Americans during the Reconstruction era. The positive outcome that came out of the victory of the Civil War was the freedom gained by millions of slaves from the South. Freeing the slaves‚ however negatively resulted in the creation of Black Codes‚ which were enforced by whites‚ to control the basic rights of African American people. When the Reconstruction Era came to an end in 1877‚ many laws from the Black Codes were passed and helped
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1865 which abolished slavery in the United States. This was very important during the Reconstruction period because you now had over 4 million newly freed slaves. The Republicans tried to find new ways to help the newly freed slaves from adding the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment. These amendments were to protect newly free people civil rights and to guarantee that the men had the right to vote. The reconstruction period was unable to employ the newly freed people so they had to go back to plantation
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Civil War and Reconstruction era was it more liberty During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era‚ was one of the most historical moments in the United States American‚ which last from 1860-1877. There been serious argument if the Civil War and Reconstruction era was it more economic freedom‚ political freedom‚ religious freedom or social freedom on liberty? In 1860‚ Abraham Lincoln was elected to be president of the United States‚ he had idea that slavery should be abolish‚ which let people feared
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The period of time between the mid 1860’s and the late 1870’s‚ referred to as the reconstruction era is quite similar to the first revolution . This period of time should be considered as the second American revolution because of the indistinguishable difference in the set of events that took place in the first and second American revolution. During these revolutions a large group of people was being oppressed likes the colonist in the first revolution and slaves in the second American revolution
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