Compromise of 1877

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    administration. Moving forward in history the Election of 1876 exposed that the North truly did lose interest in Reconstruction. The election was heated almost resulting in a second civil war, “To avoid a crisis, and informal agreement - now called the Compromise of 1877- granted Hayes the Presidency. In return and this was a huge point, Hayes promised to remove the last federal soldiers from the South” ( Roden 505). The Republican candidate won now there was room for the South to do what they wanted. If the

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    more than 3 million slaves were granted freedom, but still faced racial discrimation from restrictive “black codes”. Though human equality was the main goal of the Reconstruction period in the South after the Civil War, it proved to be an attempted compromise that actually created more conflicts. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1st, 1863, by Abraham Lincoln, and declared that “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforth shall be free” (Pruitt). “At

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    State Conventions Some notable progressive changes were: 1. Elimination of racial barriers to vote. 2. Ratification of the 14th amendment. 3. Public education is a right. Among many changes more, the “Radical Reconstruction” era began in 1867 until 1877. 1500 black men were elected to various office positions. At the federal level there were 14 Representatives and 2 Senators that were black. Johnson failed impeachment of 1868 In 1868 the house impeached president Johnson; nevertheless, the trial in

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    Reconstruction; the Congress wanted to make the south pay for what they had done. The Congress and President Johnson had several similarities and differences in the reconstruction plan, the Republicans had strong determination to control the South and prior to 1877 the Republicans had

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    Reconstruction Essay

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    Reconstruction was the time between 1863 and 1877 when the U.S. focused on abolishing slavery, destroying the Confederacy, and reconstructing the nation and the Constitution and is also the general history of the post-Civil War era in the U.S. between 1865 and 1877. Under Abraham Lincoln, presidential reconstruction began in each state as soon as federal troops controlled most of the state. The usual ending date is 1877, when the Compromise of 1877 saw the collapse of the last Republican state governments

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    Reconstruction Plan

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    the country in ruin. Abraham Lincoln, the president of the U.S at the time came up with the plan to re-build the country after the war. He called it Reconstruction Plan. The Reconstruction Plan was put to use right after the war in 1865 and ended in 1877. Within the Reconstruction Plan, Lincoln offered a model for reinstatement of Southern states called the 10 percent Reconstruction plan. And also, during reconstruction period, we witnessed the emerged of Black Code which created the Fourteen and Fifteen

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    The Reconstruction period was between 1865 and 1877. It introduced a new set of significant challenges after the Civil War gave 4 million slaves their freedom. Although the Reconstruction period tried to make changes to its political, social, and slavery problems that were inherited, it was successful in certain ways but definitely failed in many more. African Americans suffered from mainly two things: racism and economic issues. Poverty made being of color a bit worse. They were not treated as

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    The Reconstruction era was a period of time after the civil war of 1865-1877. The President and later the Congress would both put forth ideas and initiatives. Legislative responses and shifts in political power would mark this era with moderate success but in the end, a failure. One of the events that best expresses the reconstruction period has to be the abolishing of slavery through Congress's ratifying of the Thirteenth Amendment on December 18, 1865. After years of civil war and struggle throughout

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    Causes Of Reconstruction

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    understands Dunning's hate for the Radicals and his racism against the freedmen. His book proves it so. Comer Vann Woodward, or Vann Woodward, was a historian whose works mainly focused on the South. The time of Reconstruction came to an end in the Compromise of 1877. Before that, politicians were fighting each other for more power, doing whatever it takes to get votes, etc. In Woodward's book, Reunion and Reaction, Woodward states that "In public they spoke of the conciliation of estranged sections, the

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    ........................................ After the Civil War ended there were new things happening outside of war. The first black senator, Hiram Revels is elected in 1870. Then first Easter egg hunt on the White House lawn was held in the year of 1877. The North killed reconstruction because there was still racism, President Grant forgot about Reconstruction, and the North left the South on their own to fix their problems. “Quote” (........ ……….) Did the North or the South end reconstruction? The

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