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    I think that the whole reconstruction era went just the way it was supposed to. Just to think that something so small of a change could have rewritten history for bad or for good. I think that if lincoln could have carried out his plan then we would live in a completley different world then what we do today. I we have had enforced the laws as hard as we could have then the south could might as well of risen back up for another war. And what if we lost this time? We could might as well be living in

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    Reconstruction did not successfully solve the problems caused by slavery and the Civil War because the slaves were still being tricked and the white people were discriminating against the African Americans. Slavery was a big issue in the United States. They took advantage of the African Americans during the Civil War. Lincoln believed that slavery was wrong and if he set the slaves free during the Civil War‚ then they would get a huge advantage and reach the end of the war with the Union’s victory

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    prior or post the event. Research has found it to be the opposite‚ memories are not perfect recordings of past events but just reconstructions of those events (Roediger & DeSoto‚ 2015). Memory is reconstructive and can be influenced by one’s general knowledge and by post-event information. These reconstructions can either be accurate or inaccurate. This is why the Reconstruction memory phenomenon was introduced‚ to find out about the claim made about memory being reconstructive. Reconstructive memory

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    Michelle Khan Mr. Schneidman Social Studies October 4‚ 2012 Who killed reconstruction and why? After the Civil War‚ blacks were freed. They started to learn to read and write. They got voting rights and citizenship. They took roles in politics and got jobs. But‚ Reconstruction ended because of two main causes. Northern neglect and Southern resistance. The Northerners were no longer interested in dealing with the South and their problems. Ten years after the civil war and the people could

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    the war‚ Northern Republicans "waved the bloody shirt‚" brought up wartime casualties as an electoral tactic. Memories of the war and Reconstruction held the segregated the South together as a Democratic block—the "Solid South"—in national politics for another century. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s had its neoabolitionist roots in the failure of Reconstruction. Ghosts of the conflict still

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    Slavery Vs Reconstruction

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    America is the land of opportunity with multiple cultures and ethnicities‚ for years America has been associated with freedom and expression‚ however this has not always been the case. Since the birth of the nation there has been oppression in America which began with the enslavement of millions of African-American slaves in the 17th century. Slave trade became the economic foundation of America‚ this was especially true in the South where the economy became dependent of slave labor. This practice

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    failures of Reconstruction. What Black gains made during Reconstruction were retained despite Democratic redemption of the Southern states? How did economic conditions in the nation‚ both North and South influence the end of Reconstruction? Characteristics and Impacts of American Reconstruction Uploaded by tyson_626 (4560) on Feb 10‚ 2005 {draw:rect} A revolution drowned in blood Reconstruction and African American political power The period of U.S. history known as Reconstruction‚ following

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    1- The term dot.com The term Dot COM (English .com) appeared before the explosion of bubble Internet to indicate‚ the madness which seized the “entreprenautes” to the evocation of three sesames of the E-trade: market‚ customers and Internet. A synonym of E-business. 2- The Internet Bubble The "dot-com bubble" sometimes referred to as the "I.T. bubble" was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 with its peak on March 10‚ 2000 with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132.52 during which stock markets

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    Nixon and Watergate: The Scandal that Blew Up in the Face of the Public The Watergate Scandal was one of the most hideous and corrupt events in American History. Ite started to a burglary; the burglary led to a major‚ corruption scandal; the scandal led to the president‚ which gave us the only resignation in presidential History (Karmi). The scandal can be shown in its beginnings‚ with all the spying they did: “... a massive campaign of political spying and ‘dirty tricks’ was initiated against the

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    Glaxosmith Kline Scandal

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    organization had to pay up to a total of $8‚500‚000.00 for out-of-pocket expenses to refund the members of this class action law suit. The organization also had to pay a charitable contribution of 1‚000‚000.00 to the Mental Health America in California and three other organizations. Each organization was to receive $250‚000.00. Also GSK has to include certain information about Paxil. They put more information on their website and they provide more hand out information The unethical behavior affected the

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