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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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    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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    Chapter 16 - Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution‚ 1865-1877 I. Introduction The end of the Civil War brought profound changes to the United States. Reconstruction changed some things‚ but it did little regarding social equality and political turmoil. In the end‚ the government established black suffrage‚ but this reform proved insufficient to remake the South or to guarantee human rights. II. Wartime Reconstruction A. Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan Lincoln planned for a swift

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    the differences between De Jure and De Facto‚ law and reality. The opposition has raised evidence‚ that‚ on paper‚ supports Northern victory. However‚ this evidence is merely allusion clouding the true political atmosphere of America following Reconstruction. The reality is a desperate republican party‚ struggling for a hold in the South. The compromise of 1877 is startling proof of this desperation. Rutherford Hayes gave up a seat in his cabinet to a democrat‚ funding for the Texas Pacific Railroad

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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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    Radical Reconstruction had a large amount of impacts on the emancipated blacks and the south. The blacks were freed but were still subjected to racism‚ hate‚ and inequality. The radical republicans tried their best to fight for the rights of the freedmen‚ but at the end of the Reconstruction‚ the freedmen were still treated unfairly. An advantage of the Reconstruction is that it restored the United states into one union. Therefore‚ there were both advantages and disadvantages to the Reconstruction.

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    between the whites and blacks of the South and just how much freedom should be given to freed blacks or if freeing them was the greatest course of action. Essentially land owning‚ free white men lost vast amounts of property in the exchange. The Reconstruction period was not easy coming and put even more pressure on a sour split and integrating newly freed slaves into a white society was a difficult task. During Mark Twain’s time race relations had ups and downs (probably more downs). Much like how

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    Reconstruction: North and South  What were the different approaches to Reconstruction?  How did Congress try to reshape southern society?  What was the role of African Americans in the postwar south?  What were the main issues in national politics in the 1870s? The War’s Aftermath  Important questions arose o Should the Confederate leaders be tried for treason? o How should new governments be formed? o How and at whose expense was the South’s economy to be rebuilt? o Should

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    which are blights of civilization. Just as a mosquito feeds off of the blood of the host‚ and transmits malaria‚ the scourge of racist points of view settles over the consciences of good honorable people like a nebulous cloud of acid rain. After reconstruction‚ many bitter grudges were held against the liberal policies of “Them Yankees”. Many southerners still believed that they held the high ground and would not submit to the fact that theirs was the low road. Although some would say that there are

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    he vast majority of those who had been disqualified… After the passage of this act only a few hundred ex-Confederates remained unpardoned. How did the restoration of voting rights to white Southerners undermine efforts to preserve and protect the voting rights of the freedmen? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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