War reconstruction

After the Civil War, following the Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction, the protection for the rights of African American ended if there was any. Southern States had moved to impose a system of segregation on nearly all areas of life. New laws that required segregation that stirred “separate but equal” doctrine that disenfranchise African Americans for almost six decades. It is hard in this days and age to be able to imagine segregation as a law, but the remnants just change form and

The Civil War was fought in America from 1861-1865. Prior to that, while James Buchanan was president there was a huge disagreement about slavery between the northern and southern states. In response, the Confederate states began seceding from the Union. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was the president of the Union and Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederate States. The Confederacy was made of 11 southern states and the Union consisted of the other northern territories and states

Post-civil war the torn nation juggles wide ranges of emotions as they attempt to piece together the shattered unity but didn’t know how to go about doing so. President Lincoln had great plans for the reconstruction but was killed before he could put them into action. He was murdered by John Booth at Ford Theater and passed the next morning. Lincoln’s Vice-president, Andrew Johnson, took over and became the new president. Johnson and Congress argued about how to go about the reconstruction and in the

After the conclusion of America’s Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln pitched the idea of “Reconstruction,” which would bring the southern states back into the Union. President Lincoln, according to many radical Republicans, was too gentle on the south. The government was divided on how to solve the issue of readmitting the southern states back into the Union. In addition to that, the government was not certain on what rights to enumerate to the newly emancipated slaves. These issues became more

AP US History 06 January 2006 Reconstruction: Failure The Civil war was possibly the greatest tragedy that this country had ever faced. Years of constant arguing, compromises and cynical ideas about slavery pushed this so called "United Nation" into an atrocious collision between the Northern abolitionists and the Southern proslavery farmers and plantation owners. The nation suffered enormous losses economically and went into a downward spiral. The reconstruction period began with many leaders

The Reconstruction effort that occurred after the Civil War from 1865 - 1866 had both positive and negative effects on the nation. Leading up to the Reconstruction attempt, there was developing regional differences between the North and South. Slavery was the issue of the decade. North argued that it was inhumane, while the South was quick to point out that many Northerners benefited from slavery. The Presidential election of Lincoln lead to the succession of the South. They believed that the United

The necessity of Radical Reconstruction After the Civil War had ended a period of reconstruction was in mind, but failed to succeed. President Andrew Johnson’s principle was that the South never had a right to succeed. He also believed that blacks should not have any role in the reconstruction. Johnson appointed provisional governors and ordered them to call state conventions to establish new, all white government. Radical Republicans believed that people of all skin color had the right to be

after the Civil War, southern whites hoped for restoration of their rights and a return to traditions and lifestyle before the conflict began. Radical Republicans imposed oppressive policies and laws. Despite these difficulties, southern whites worked with other interests to improve conditions going forward. Whites in the old Confederacy raised serious objections to what they considered oppressive Reconstruction policies. However, they found ways to work within the Reconstruction system to help restore

Reconstruction was a period of time after the Civil War (1865-1877) that was supposed to be the rebuilding of America. It was also the process used to readmit all the Confederate states back into the Union. There was controversy, however, on how to go about rebuilding the nation. Abraham Lincoln proposed a lenient plan. After he was assassinated, Andrew Johnson proposed a very similar plan. The Radical Republicans, a group of legislators that were in favor of freedmen’s rights, were opposed

The Civil War brought hardships on many Texas families. Not many battles of the Civil War were fought in Texas but the effect of the war was definitely meant in Texas. Around 1862, the Union Troops blockade the ports off of Galveston which made the citizens of Texas suffer shortages of many kinds but as people were getting away from the Deep South, they were traveling to Texas and only a few bringing slaves with them. The mess of the Civil War left Texas dry. Reconstruction was not a walking in