Reconstruction (1865-1877) 2 main issues: Reconstruction failed to alter the South’s social structure or its distribution of wealth and power which disadvantaged African-Americans. Reconstruction left significant legacies‚ including the 14th and 15th amendments which would be used 100 years later to protect minority rights. 3 different kinds/plans: Executive Legislative Judicial Executive Reconstruction Lincoln 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (10% Plan) 10% of
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What Is Freedom? Reconstruction 1865-1877 Four days after the meeting Sherman issued Special Field Order 15: It set aside Sea Island and a large area on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts for the settlement of the black families on 40 acre plots of land. He offered them broken mule too. With Slavery dead‚ which black institution strengthened after the war? a. The free blacks’ church b. The secret slave church c. The back family d. The free blacks’ schools e. ALL OF THE ABOVE- Correct
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US History August 22‚ 2012 Reconstruction‚ I 1. Wartime Reconstruction‚ 1862-1864 2. Presidential Reconstruction 1865-1866 Can Slavery continue indefinitely? The Union perpetual -Lincoln wanted to win the war‚ but he did not want to destroy the old south -Congress wanted to transform the south. -Lincoln wants to abolish slavery because it would cripple the economy‚ and believed in a gradual proclomation plan Wartime Reconstruction -Emancipation Proclamation‚ 1863 -Liberates slaves
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Reconstruction Acts (1867) divided the former Confederate states into five military districts‚ each under the control of the Union army. These acts also increased the requirements for gaining readmission to the Union and to do so‚ an ex-Confederate state had to ratify the 14th Amendment and place guarantees in its constitution for granting the right to vote to all adult males regardless of race. Lincoln set up a process for political Reconstruction‚ as in reconstructing the state governments in the
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Reconstruction and African Americans from 1865-1900 From 1865 to 1900‚ Reconstruction was meant to help change the lives of African Americas. However‚ because of prejudice‚ Reconstruction didn’t go on as far as it could have. Reconstruction tried to deliver its promises to African Americans while battling a discriminatory white America. This is seen socially‚ through civil rights‚ and politically‚ through Jim Crow Laws and voting. Concerning social promises‚ Reconstruction made astounding changes
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Freedmen’s Bureau Act of 1865 The Freedmen’s Bureau was a government agency enacted March 3‚ 1865. The purpose of this organization was to aid and protect the newly freed slaves in the south after the Civil War. This was a very influential agency and some people would find it to be a major influence in the life of newly freed slaves. In this paper I will explain to you the purpose‚ the events that led up to the Freedmen’s Bureau‚ and the people that influenced the Freedmen’s Bureau. The purpose
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RECONSTRUCTION: HIGH HOPES AND SHATTERED DREAMS 1865-1877 CHAPTER 15 Rodrigo Gavilanez Rodrigo Gavilanez Professor Bonanno History 152 Section H1 9 October 2008 Reconstruction: High Hopes and Shattered Dreams‚ 1865-1877 The United States of America faced a lot of difficult times during its history to get of what today we call America. At the beginning‚ two of the most important changes that American’s History remembers were the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1‚ 1863
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The Reconstruction Act of March‚ 1867 reorganized the South into five military districts‚ each under control of a Union general. The Act required universal male suffrage to elect delegates to conventions‚ required granting the vote to freed men‚ and the ratification of the 14th Amendment. The term “Negro Rule” came from the enfranchisement of freedmen and their participation in state and local government.16 Enfranchisement and office holding allowed another change in Southern politics that white
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its future was Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a time period in America involving many leaders‚ goals and accomplishments. By the end of the civil war‚ nobody knew what was to be done. With the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865‚ it was up to President Andrew Johnson to try to reunite former enemies. They had to solve one issue; African Americans still continued to serve white southerners on their plantations. Was the Reconstruction a success or a failure? The Reconstruction was more of a
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Reconstruction: The Post War Era Lindsay Pone Professor Goldstein History 105 Strayer University 01/30/2013 Reconstruction: The Post Civil War Era Friday April 12‚ 1861‚ America embarked into war with its biggest adversary; America! The American Civil War broke out‚ and what was believed to be a quick battle by the North‚ turned out to be a long bloody four years and left the country devastated. President Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th president of the United
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