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    after the Civil War in 1865 may had given roughly 4 million slaves their freedom, however the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period introduced a new set of significant challenges. In order to reconstruct the country following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, the federal government and Republican-controlled state governments in the southern regions made efforts to rebuild the Southern economy and advance conditions of freedom. Following the Civil War, majority of

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    problems to breakout. The Reconstruction Era went on from 1863 to 1877. It was taken place in the South, it was the greatest problem that still remained after the Civil War and had to be solved. In general, the changes made after the Civil War did not help African-Americans move closer to achieving the American Dream due to the economic, political and social problems that they faced due to the reconstruction. The problems that southerners produced around the Reconstruction Acts stopped blacks from

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    for reconstruction in where he would pardon the south and allow them to reintegrate the Union. It would only have been possible if 10% of the voters took an oath of loyalty, but due to his dead, the 10% plan couldn't be carried out. President Johnson was a Democrat that believes that citizenship and voting rights were to be determined by each state individually; he also agreed with Lincoln that states never legally left the Union. In fact,

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    generations to hear, learn, and study them. One interesting topic in history is Reconstruction. To further understand Reconstruction, one needs to know what happened during this period, how it came to exist and the impact it had on African Americans. The Reconstruction era was a period of time that lasted for fourteen years. Reconstruction began in 1863, just after America had finish fighting the Civil War. The Civil War settled the constitutional crisis that were provoked by the secessions of the

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    history, the start of the Civil War tested the nation’s bond of unity but changed with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The executive order drafted by President Abraham Lincoln was both a political and military tactic. Its purpose was to “free” slaves in Confederate lands, meaning the only way slaves could escape was to disobeying their masters and flee to the North and join their army as protection. The period between 1865 - 1877 was known as reconstruction, an effort to bring peace to North

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    governments in some southern states. The author focuses on the reconstruction of Mississippi. He stirs memories of the murderous Southern resistance and to civil rights movements 90 years later. Lemann writes at an era when neo-Confederate sympathies have cropped up again in southern politics, and amid several reports of the suppression of the minority voting throughout the country. Mr. Lemann presents the last battle of the Civil War. Nicholas Lemann’s book helps us to heed to the lessons and experiences

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    The reconstruction period followed the Civil war. The Civil war was between the North and South over the issue of slavery. This started from 1865 to 1877, and the reconstruction period intended to bring the South back to the Union. Part of it was placing the thirteenth, fourteenth, and the Fifteenth Amendment to help solve the disputes of slavery that caused the Civil War. This did not mean that all racial issues would not exist anymore, for example there was the Trail Of James Byrd which was a trail

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    The Reconstruction was a period of roughly ten years that came after the American Civil War. During this time black Americans were able to vote, attend school and even hold public office. These ten years were a small break for black Americans following the end of slavery and preceding the Jim Crow Laws of the South. There is a question to be answered, who killed Reconstruction? There are those who say that the South lead to the end of Reconstruction because of the actions of hate groups such as the

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    the Union’s victory in the Civil War during 1865, the era of Reconstruction began, an era in which the prospect of rebuilding the nation once again after the catastrophic effects of the war arose. During Reconstruction, African Americans were attempted to be integrated into American society, it was questioned on what terms Confederate states would be welcomed into the country, and the economy was meant to be fixed but all of this ultimately failed. Reconstruction was not successful in rebuilding

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    veer confused and forcing the congress to make the final decision. Andrew Johnson announced plans of the Reconstruction which was referred his stanch unionism and his firm belief of states’ rights. President Johnson was an inept politician who lost all his advantages by his clumsy moves. He broke with Congress in early 1866 and then became defiant and tried to block enforcement of Reconstruction laws. In the year of 1865 during the month of March the Freedmen Bureau was established. The Freedmen’s

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