organization of white Southerners who resisted reconstruction and halted the northern encroachment. This traditional view can also be asserted as a racist view. The other popular view is called the revisionist view‚ and it deems the Ku Klux Klan a violent and disrespectful organization set on overthrowing the rule of Negros‚ scalawags‚ and carpetbaggers. This essay will look at the horrific acts committed by the Klan during the period of reconstruction‚ question the morality of such acts‚ and conclude
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1. What were some white landowners attempting to achieve through their violence against African-Americans? White landowners attempted to keep cheap/free labor in the fields and if they didn’t obey‚ they were to be killed. Anyone who is associated with political organizing f the Republican party‚ black/white politicians. 2. Who are the Radical Republicans and what do they hope to achieve? Loyal unionists‚ they became instant targets after 1865. They wanted instant change‚ granting full rights
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have the right to vote. During the reading it reviews the constantly changing view on the subject of the Reconstruction. The postwar Reconstruction period has been viewed in many different lights throughout history but one fact remains true‚ that it was one of the most violent‚ dramatic and controversial times in US’s history. Eric Foner talks about the way the Reconstruction was a period of intense‚ corruption and
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http://millercenter.org/president/lincoln/essays/biography/9 Foner‚ E. (2009). Retrieved from American Heritage: http://www.americanheritage.com/content/if-lincoln-hadn%E2%80%99t-died?page=2 Reconstruction and Industrialization. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.web-books.com/eLibrary/ON/B0/B52/35MB52.html Reconstruction: Americas Unfinished Revolution. (n.d.). Retrieved from Academic American History: http://www.academicamerican.com/recongildedage/topics/reconstruction.html The First Transcontinental Railroad
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Describe and explain the factors that contributed to the development of segregation in the late 19th century. The segregation that emerged during the late 19th century can be attributed to the politics of the Congressional Reconstruction the morals that Southerners carried after the American Civil War. Although great progress was made after the North’s victory‚ the discrimination of black people would continue for 100 years. The politics of segregation after the Civil War begin with Andrew Johnson’s
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Week 1 RECONSTRUCTION-Reading Assignments: Norton et al.‚ A People and A Nation chapter 16‚ Portrait of America chapter 1 “The Checkered History of the fourteenth Amendment “quiz Identification Terms: Freedmen’s Bureau Tenure of Office Act Ku Klux Klan Scalawags Enforcement Acts Carpetbaggers Compromise of 1877 Sharecropping Reconstruction Acts of 1867 Crop Lien 14th Amendment Black Codes 15th Amendment Week 1 WESTERN SETTLEMENT –Reading assignment Norton A People and A Nation
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Analyze the political‚ economic‚ and emotional issues facing Northern leaders in devising a plan for Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a struggle to define the meaning of freedom. Northern leaders faced a variety of problems. Many northerners believed that the South should be punished for their actions and that the region should be transformed into the North’s urbanized image. As for reconstruction‚ conservatives wanted the South to accept abolition. The Radicals urged for the punishment of Confederate
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Johnson was also a target on that fateful night‚ but his would-be assassin failed to show up. Three hours after Lincoln died‚ Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the 17th president of the United States. The racist Southerner Johnson was charged with the reconstruction of the South and the extension of civil rights and suffrage to former black slaves. It quickly became apparent that Johnson would not force Southern states to grant full equality to blacks‚ thus setting up a confrontation with congressional Republicans
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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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US History R Chapter 12: Section 1- The Politics of Reconstruction I. Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction Presidential Reconstruction Comes to a Standstill When the 39th Congress convened in December 1865‚ the Radical Republican legislators disputed Johnson’s claim that Reconstruction was complete. As a result‚ Congress refused to admit the newly elected Southern legislators. In February 1866 Congress voted to continue and enlarge the Freedman’s Bureau. It set up 40 hospitals‚ 4‚000 schools
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