Overview of principal Reconstruction proposals and plans: · 1864-65: Lincoln’s 10% plan · 1865: 13th Amendment · 1865-66: Presidential Reconstruction: Johnson’s version of Lincoln’s proposal · 1866-67: Congressional plan: 10% plan with 14th Amendment · 1867-77: Military Reconstruction (Congress): 14th Amendment plus black suffrage that was later established nationwide by the 15th Amendment. · Compromise of 1877: ends Reconstruction. What was Reconstruction? Attempt to achieve national
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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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The Union was victorious in the Civil War in 1865 and‚ consequently‚ much of the South had been destroyed in the process. The period after the Civil War is known as the Reconstruction period which lasted until 1877. During this period‚ the rebuilding of the South began. The federal government set conditions that the Southern states would have to abide by in order to enter back into the Union. One of the conditions of the South’s re-admittance into the Union was that there must be civil and political
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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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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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withdrawing federal troops from the South. Due to this deal‚ the Democrats reclaimed power in the South‚ while the Republicans remained in power in both the Senate and the White House. In doing so‚ they did sacrifice their goals of complete southern Reconstruction in order to win the election. Former slaves lost all federal protection and conditions in the South were returned to a state only marginally better than slavery. However‚ before ending reform efforts‚ the Republicans did manage to improve social
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When the civil war ended‚ the Republican Party developed the Reconstruction program‚ which threatened to turn the south upside down. The Reconstruction was developed with the intention of giving blacks the chance for a new and better life. Upon being freed some blacks stayed with their old masters‚ yet many left in search of opportunities in education and land ownership. There were many things that stood in their way of these tasks. There were the “black codes” which required black to carry
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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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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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A.P. United States History Dr. Parsons 1/3/2012 DBQ 1996 Question: In what ways and to what extent did constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amount to a revolution? Doc A: South Carolina declaration of Causes of Secession‚ Dec. 24‚ 1860. Evidence: Interpretation of the 10th Amendment--…powers not prohibited to federal govt nor prohibited to states are reserved to the states‚ or people. Inference: Challenges Article 4‚ section 4 and Article 6‚ section 2; assumes
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