nation to two. Social developments and constitutional changes that occurred within this time frame amounted to a devastating separation of people. The first major crisis‚ the Civil War‚ divided the nation sectionally and what ensued afterward‚ the Reconstruction‚ divided the nation completely. The Civil War lasted four years‚ from April of 1861 to April of 1865. It physically separated the nation into two‚ in which the South seceded from the North. The two sides fought for the struggle over slavery -
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Bibliography: Morin‚ Isobel. Impeaching the President. Brookfield‚ C.T: Millbrook Press‚ 1996: 53- 67 Stathis‚ Stephen Charles Ernest Chadsey‚ The Struggle Between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction (New York: AMS Press‚ Inc‚ 1967) Howard P Eric L. McKittrick Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction (Chicago: University of Chicago Press‚ 1960) David Miller DeWitt The Impeachment and Trial of President Andrew Johnson (New York: Russell and Russell‚ Inc ‚ 1967 Reissue)
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around their views on African Americans Question: Look back to the document-based question. How did the Ku Klux Klan help to undermine Congress’ effort to ensure equal rights to freedmen? Organized by white Southerners to undermine radical reconstruction efforts Document 3: Question: How did the restoration of voting rights to white Southerners undermine efforts to preserve and protect the voting rights of the freedmen? White democrats would rally behind old confederate beliefs Freedmen
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Reuniting with families • looked over thousands of miles looking for family • even purchased advertisements. Land Special field order #15 • Gen William Sherman‚ January 26‚ 1865 ○ 400‚000 acres ○ seize land at the beginning of the reconstruction area to provide land for former enslaved people The Port Royal Experiment • 1861 • black people could prove that they can actually learn • established an all black school‚ one of the first of its kind in the South CLICKER What was the
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but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges. Under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866‚ new southern state legislatures passed restrictive "black codes" to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. Outrage in the North over these codes eroded support for the approach known as Presidential Reconstruction and led to the triumph of the more radical wing
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Somebody ... Wanted ... But ... So ... President Abraham Lincoln the nation to heal as quickly as possible from the Civil War and planned to reunify the nation quickly he was assassinated in 1865 only days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender plans for Reconstruction were taken over by Vice President Andrew Johnson‚ who became president after Lincoln’s death President Andrew Johnson he agreed with Lincoln’s idea that sooner the country could reunite‚ the sooner it could heal. President Johnson believed patience
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found a deep-rooted prejuce from the south not only for the “Negros” but for the Union as well. Southerners felt betrayed by their government but under the circumstances felt that they no option but to comply with Union demands. The challenges of reconstruction in the south were enormous; economic‚ social‚ racial and political just to name a few. Schurz stressed the fact that “…the rapid return to power and influence of so many of those who but recently were engaged in a bitter was against the Union
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POL203 Review notes Week 1 – America Before America Exact number of aboriginal before the settlers arrived is not really known. They had a complex system of government‚ agriculture and trade. Federalism was used by the people of the Long House as a governing multiple tribes in different areas. Diseases introduced by the settlers reduced the population to about 250‚000 by the end of the 19th century > the thanks giving was not so great There were wars going on. The 13 Colonies were all on
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The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture is a collection of essays that all revolve the central theme of the “geography of Civil War memory.” As editors Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh explain in their introduction‚ that geography incorporated both “physical and symbolic spaces” (2). The memory of the Civil War has been contested in numerous arenas and over the course of time; the strengths of this volume are the wide array of subjects it covers and how it shows change over time. In broad terms
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began their new free lives. Often times they all struggled but they were now free. 2. Compare the economic conditions of the South with the economic conditions of the North during the period of Reconstruction. The economic conditions of the South compared to the North during the period of Reconstruction varied quite heavily. The South was limited in many ways after the war and had little to expand and prosper where as the North had everything from political power to trade. They made it so the
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