Unit 5 Diane Arias PI: Panic of 1857: broke out due to California gold inflating the currency and over-speculation in land and railroads. Two groups opposed the idea: Eastern industrialists feared that the free land would drain its supply of workers and the South feared that the West would fill up with free-soilers who would form anti-slavery states‚ unbalancing the Senate even more. The Tariff of 1857 lowered duties to about 20%. North blamed it for causing the panic‚ because they felt they needed
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Terms Summary 1) Robert Smalls Robert Smalls was a slave in South Carolina. He became a Union hero in 1862 when he escaped from slavery by stealing a Confederate ship from Charleston harbor and piloting it to the blockading federal fleet. Thereafter‚ Smalls guided Union gunboats and toured the North recruiting black troops. He eventually became a Congressman and fought for educational and economic opportunities for African Americans. 2) Wade Hampton Wade Hampton was a South Carolina legislator
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agree? Why or why not?” Although not a presidential election‚ the off-year congressional election of 1866 was in fact a referendum election for Andrew Johnson. By the summer of 1866‚ Johnson had lost support within the Republican Party for his Reconstruction policies. After a unity meeting of 7‚000 delegates at the National Union Convention—which met in Philadelphia on August 14—failed to bridge the growing gap between Johnson and the Republicans‚ the determined President decided to take the issue
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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 Change for the south which he felt takes time. Radicals believed that the south couldn’t change if former confederates
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• Question 1 In May 1856‚ ________ slaughtered five unarmed‚ proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in "bleeding Kansas." Answer Correct Answer: John Brown • Question 2 1 out of 1 points During the Lincoln-Douglas debates‚ Douglas argued that territories could circumvent the Dred Scott decision by not enacting the laws necessary for slavery. This was called the Answer Correct Answer: Freeport Doctrine. • Question 3 1 out of 1 points The Ostend
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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson A devious man‚ with an end goal in mind‚ took the biggest risk to get what he wanted. In 1864 Abraham Lincoln ran for President with Andrew Johnson as his running mate. Though they were in different political parties‚ Lincoln was impressed with the former Governor of Tennessee. Lincoln chose Johnson as his Vice President to gain support from the South. Johnson was a racist Democrat from North Carolina who became president in 1865 when Lincoln was assassinated. During
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The term Bourbon refers to the white rulers throughout the South at the end of the Reconstruction period. The Bourbons were democrats who ruled Louisiana until well into the 20th century. After 1877 cotton and sugar planters along with wealthy New Orleans businessmen reigned over the state; many of them were sons or grandsons of those that ruled before the Civil War. The Bourbon Democrats of Louisiana quickly realized that they would not be able to completely return to the plantation South of 1860
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5 mil. for Confederate ships they damaged during the war Previous president annexed Alaska‚ so Grant tried to annex Dominican Republic and failed. The Liberals’ Revolt: Liberal Republicans (free trade‚ hard money‚ supply/demand)—thought Reconstruction was complete‚ said corruption was bigger problem Liberals/Democrats supported Greeley‚ but he died. Grant won the election—passed Amnesty Act‚ allowed Confederates to hold office The Panic of 1873: America was full of industrialization‚ speculation
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published in 1955. The book gives an analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and shed light to the fact that segregation actually may have caused more of a divide than slavery. It also shows that there was considerable mixing of the races during the reconstruction period. The book was also cited to counter arguments for segregation so often that Martin Luther King Jr. called it “the historical Bible of the civil rights movement.” One thing that is very interesting about the Jim Crow system is that it
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From the year of Lincoln’s first election‚ to the end of the Reconstruction Act‚ America had been through a cultural and political revolution‚ that changed the entirety of the country’s dynamics. After the close of the Civil War in 1865‚ the Union held a clear stand against the institution of slavery. After President Lincoln was assassinated‚ his vice president‚ Andrew Johnson‚ popularly seemed unfit for the task of reconstruction of the country. Congress‚ Constitutional amendments‚ racism‚ and
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