RECONSTRUCTING ARGUMENTS Deductive and Inductive Here we are to learn the techniques for PART I, Making a Critique- i.e., argument reconstruction, by doing the following “steps”: 1. Read the discourse; 2. Number and Bracket arguments; 3. Write an Index of Claims; and 4. Tree-Diagram the arguments. What is critiquing? Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1913 – 1999) - the creator of Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956) following a framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of Educational
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The reconstruction period is the time to get the country back together, president Lincoln plan was to treat the south nicely, instead of punishing them. By doing this, the south will not have any reason to continues resisting. However, Lincoln did not get to fulfill his plan due to his death, after Lincoln passed away, the vice president Andrew Johnson take office and shipped Lincoln’s plan to a different direction. During this time radical Republican control Congress, therefore, they strongly believe
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the Reconstruction? In the 1860’s, they were in a time called the Reconstruction Era. This consists of three different sections. In all of these, the goal was to give freedmen and African Americans equal rights to those of whites. This was also right after the 13th amendment was passed, requiring all slaves to be freed. With all of this freedom, African Americans still faced hostility from many southerners. Because of this, most blacks still didn’t have fair rights by the end of Reconstruction. This
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How promising was the period of reconstruction for African Americans? (50 marks) After the end of the civil war in 1865 and the abolition of slavery, a period of reconstruction followed where by the government hoped to seize control of the south and rebuild America. Some historians argue this was a promising period for the newly freed slaves where as others would argue it was a crisis and thus a negative period for the African Americans. When looking at reconstruction one must consider the economic
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The Radical Reconstruction period from1868 to1877 provided suffrage to the African American community in tremendous ways. This Reconstruction period provided new prospects for the African American community for example, voting, labor, ownership of property, education and restoration of family life. In addition, to providing many opportunities the Radical Reconstruction made it very challenging for African American’s to take advantage of their “freedom”. In this paper my aim is to prove that African
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Constitution was part of the backlash against Reconstruction, such thoughts are the simple and excessive application (Harrington 5). As an alternative, one can accurately say the current constitution of Texas in primarily an attempt of imposing conservative values on the state government (Ericson 7). For this reason, the present constitution of Texas aims at replicating the provisions of constitutions of pre-Civil War that had nothing to do with reconstruction or slavery. Evidence in the Texas Constitution
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Who Killed Reconstruction ? Both the north and the south were responsible for killing reconstruction after the civil war. The north did not agree that slavery should be allowed but really just had given up on trying to convince the south. The south on the other hand simply refused to give into what the north was saying. To clarify reconstruction was the rebuilding of the united states after the civil war , this was a very tough time period that lasted up to 14 years. Though
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slavery, a period of reconstruction followed where by the government hoped to seize control of the south and rebuild America. Some historians argue this was a promising period for the newly freed slaves where as others would argue it was a crisis and thus a negative period for the African Americans. When looking at reconstruction one must consider the economic, legal, social and political impacts it had on the African Americans. One argument that suggests that reconstruction was promising for the
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Unit I: Essay Exam: Reconstruction & Rise of Industry US History Since 1877 Professor Valdenia Winn February 14, 2013 According to Dictionary.com, radical means: 1. Of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference. 2. Thoroughgoing or extreme, especially as regards change from accepted or traditional forms. Historians identified Congressional Reconstruction as “radical” because of how the South tried to elude the Thirteenth Amendment. Because of these extreme
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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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