Hale County‚ Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community. The Politics of Reconstruction The Civil War was bloodiest war in American history (600‚000 soldiers died). It began as way to preserve Union but evolved into a struggle for African American freedom‚ resulting in the death of slavery in the United States and the unification of the states under a stronger central government. The Defeated South South destroyed after defeat: towns ruined‚ slavery (means of labor in cotton fields)
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name that describes two distinct groups of white racists in American history. The first Klan emerged during the Reconstruction era‚ as a secret society committed to the preservation of white supremacy. Blacks had only recently been given the right to vote during this era‚ and this electorate was instrumental in putting Republicans in power in the Southern states. During Reconstruction‚ the Klan was especially active in Tennessee and North and South Carolina. Members wore white robes and masks and
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African Americans: The Loss and Gain of Freedom(1865-1900) The Civil War ended on April 9‚ 1865. The period known after the war was called Reconstruction. During Reconstruction (also called Radical Reconstruction)‚ the South was in economic‚ political‚ and social trouble. In 1865 Congress established the Bureau of Refugees‚ Freedmen‚ and Abandoned Lands. This became known as the Freedmen’s Bureau. It was a bureau ran by the United States Army‚ with several field
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to change the laws that African Americans had obtained during the Reconstruction era. The U.S. High Court strengthen this anti-liberal party with resolution in the “Slaughterhouse Cases‚ the Civil Rights Cases‚ and United States v. Cruikshank” that remarkably got rid of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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compensation for all the work they had done during the slavery era. (During the final months of the Civil War‚ tens of thousands of freed slaves left their plantations to follow General William T.. In January 1865‚ Sherman issued a temporary plan granting each freed family 40 acres of land on the islands and coastal region of Georgia. The Union Army also donated some of its mules‚ unneeded for battle purposes‚ to the former slaves.) During Reconstruction‚ however‚ the conflicts resulted in the sharecropping
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Thirteenth Amendment but had left the South in complete ruins‚ and with four million newly freed slaves that were homeless‚ jobless‚ and illiterate. Reconstruction was then introduced to reunite the South with the Union and assist the newly freed slaves with adjusting to a new society while also protecting them like the citizens they had become. The Reconstruction had successfully rebuilt the damaged cities and transportation of the South‚ but failed to do anything about the racial injustice that was presenting
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Post-Civil War era (1865-1900) there were several reconstruction periods as well as a widespread Western industrialization occurring. After the war it seemed as if the entire country had to press the “reset” button and literally start afresh. There was a break down in the south after the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves‚ Gen Custard destroyed cities‚ and what seemed to be a booming economy suddenly hit a brick wall. During this time‚ the U.S. experienced several reconstruction episodes. From
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The Reconstruction Era lasted up to 1877 from the time just after the Civil War. The Reconstruction failed to bring about social and economic equality to the former slaves due to the southern whites’ resentful and bitter outlook on the matter‚ the Ku Klux Klan‚ and the Jim Crow laws. After the Civil War‚ the southern whites were extremely resentful and bitter. In 1865 the southern states began issuing “black codes‚” which were laws made subsequent to the Civil War that had the effect of limiting
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thirteenth amendment did not include in practice social freedoms for slaves as well (Reconstruction). The injustices that most African Americans had to endure was what led to this particular case The overall goal of the Reconstruction was to rebuild the South. Once the Civil War had ended the South was required to uphold the Thirteenth Amendment‚ join the Union by swearing loyalty to it‚ and pay off war debt (Reconstruction). Andrew Johnson was president at the time and he chose to leave individual states
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1: Terms The Dunning school of thought was named after William Dunning—a professor at Columbia University (1857-1922). Dunning was the first historian in 1900’s to look at the after civil war and reconstruction era. He came up with the idea that the South was a victim of the—Tragic Era—construction era. Dunning‘s vision depicts the slave holders as honorable men‚ while the “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” as corrupts and opportunist who took advantage of the weakened South. Moreover‚ Dunning school
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