decline of the nomadic way of life. According to "American Experience" (2014),” it was an irrevocable marker of encroaching white society, that unstoppable force which would force Indians onto reservations within decades". Modern technology of the era far surpassed Native Americans, and it was used to a great advantage of conquering the west. There were probably direct skirmishes between Indians and Railroad employees, it was the train that
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Tatyana Dotson Part II: Report on the Condition of the South (1865) 5. According to Schurz, the overall goal of Reconstruction is to reconstruct southern society and bring it back into American Society as a whole. He also mentions that it is also about the relationship between the constitution and the general public. 6. Schurz says the transition between the freedman and the south is so difficult to achieve because the south feels that the Union was so harsh and vengeful to them
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to vote, through a web of laws, regulations, and informal rules, all of which are powerfully reinforced by social stigma, they are confined to the margins of mainstream society and denied access to the mainstream economy. During the Reconstruction Era, whites felt threatened and outraged as African Americans were exposed to more social and economic opportunities and started to obtain political power. To turn the table and regain all the black labors they had for free for centuries, southern states
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of 1873: * production was greater than demanded * soft (paper) vs. hard (gold and silver) money; Greenback labor party- wanted more greenbacks- they elected 14 members of congress (party of farmers) 5. Gilded Age: * known as the “era of good stealing’s” * politics used the term “waving the bloody shirt” 6. Compromise of 1877: * Hayes (rep.) and Tilden (dem.) ran in the 1877 election * Hayes wins and reconstruction ends and the creation of the Jim Crow laws happens
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Chapter 1: Reconstruction There is controversy in the North and South because of the end of a brutal civil war. The controversy is over diversity of what the government should be and what to make of the African Americans. The disagreement was supposed to be solved by Reconstruction but it ended up being abandoned. Abandoning the Reconstruction defiantly ruled against the blacks. It meant back to the low end of the totem pole. It wasn’t quite slavery but it might as well be. They were
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As a country, America has gone through many political changes throughout her lifetime. Leaders have come and gone, all of them having different objectives and plans for the future. As history takes its course, though, most all of these “revolutionary movements” come to an end. One such movement was Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a time period in America consisting of many leaders, goals and accomplishments. Though, like all things in life, it did come to an end, the resulting outcome has been
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There was a moderate political change in the lives of African Americans in the South through congressional actions regarding African American civil rights, including elections and legislation. For example, African Americans were granted their freedom from slavery by the 13th Amendment passed in 1865. Thaddeus Stevens, an anti-slavery radical republican, spoke about the need to provide for the freedmen until they could support themselves and that otherwise, they should have left them in “bondage”
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Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction were shaped by his view of the Civil War. He believed that it was unconstitutional for the Confederacy to secede. He therefore did not recognize the Confederacy as ever having been a “separate” country from the United States. In 1864, the Civil War was nearly over, and President Lincoln wanted to reunite the country as quickly as possible. He began to develop a plan for Reconstruction to achieve his goal. He even chose a southerner, Andrew Johnson, as his running
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In 1876 the presidential election was a contested election. There was a point in time that Democrats were thought to win to the election. The Republicans ended up winning the election but they made promises to the Democratic Party in order for them to win. The promises that were made ended up to be “The Compromise of 1877”. In 1876, there was a dispute between the Republican party and the southern Democrats that was resolved with this policy called The Compromise of 1877. The Compromise of 1877
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One way that Reconstruction was a success was the Transcontinental Railroad. One way that Reconstruction was a failure was that the Black Codes came out of them. I think that it was more of a failure because after a while people didn’t care to try to continue Reconstruction. The Transcontinental Railroad was a success because it helped to connect the east to the west. This was an important idea for Reconstruction because the railroad would help to promote nationalism. The idea of promoting nationalism
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