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Reconstruction
The goal, of President Lincoln and his supporters, was to rejoin all of the states to the Union and to help rebuild the "South". Lincoln was going to grant amnesty to all that rejoined...
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Both Douglass and Lincoln wanted to end slavery with the end of the war. Lincoln's view on this subject changed during the war as he used the Emancipation Proclamation as a war measure. Douglass,...
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The early Reconstruction period in the South was a period of great optimism for the newly freed slaves. They were finally granted economic independence and an opportunity to climb the social...
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There were strengths and weaknesses of both the Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction and Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction. The biggest weakness in Andrew Johnson’s plan is that...
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Essentially, Congress made certain that Southern states followed the laws with regard to Reconstruction by force. Congress sent the military to the South to rule the Southern states and ensure...
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The major reason was a lack of political will to promote equality. While the number of abolitionists grew, it was only a minority of them who sought to give African Americans full civil rights and...
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Lincoln's plan, formulated in the midst of the war, is mainly remembered for what became known as the "Ten Percent Plan," whereby a state could form a civilian government and apply for readmission...
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President Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction was much more lenient than the plan that Congress eventually passed that is known as “Radical Reconstruction.” Johnson, like President...
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President Abraham Lincoln could see the writing on the wall by 1863, that the Union would most likely win the war, and the need for reconstruction of the national politically, economically and...
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Reconstruction was the process used to bring the South back into the country and to rebuild it after the Civil War ended. There were some political, economic, and social successes as a result of...
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One of the major problems the federal government faced during Reconstruction was the disagreement between Radical Republicans in Congress, who wanted to pursue a far-reaching policy of...
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Although the term "soft" Reconstruction isn't usually used, historians do make a difference between the process used by both President Lincoln (and later President Johnson) and that used by...
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Abraham Lincoln developed his own plan of Reconstruction. It was often referred to as the Ten Percent Plan. President Lincoln was thinking of Reconstruction before the Civil War had ended. He...
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This is, to some degree, a matter of opinion. My own view is that Radical Reconstruction failed because not enough white Americans, whether they lived in the North or the South, cared enough about...
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Reconstruction had several goals. The main goal was to rebuild the South. After the Civil War, the South was completely destroyed. This meant several things needed to occur. First, the economy...
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This period from 1865 to 1877 is usually called Reconstruction.The obvious problem for America in April 1865 is the assassination of a President: Abraham Lincoln was murdered on April 14, 1865. The...
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I assume that what this question is really asking is something like “how do all of these things go together.” This is because these four things cannot really have anything in common. Andrew...
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On the whole, you'd have to say it was a failure. The whole purpose of Reconstruction was to change the structure of Southern politics and society so that the slave states could be reincorporated...
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Historians generally agree that Reconstruction was a period of extraordinary chages for American society, politics and for the Constitution itself. Yet, very few of these changes proved lasting and...
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The main reason why some people in the North were opposed to President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was because they felt that it was too lenient to the South. President Lincoln wanted very...
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Like Lincoln, Johnson wanted the former Confederate states brought back into the Union as quick as possible. Johnson did not insist on the Radicals "Ironclad Oath" which prohibited anyone who...
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Despite the early successes of the Reconstruction era, the movement should be considered a failure. The goals of Reconstruction were to rebuild the economy of the South while successfully...
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Presidential Reconstruction refers to the plan of Andrew Johnson, our 17th president, to rebuild and reconstitute the south following the Civil War. Johnson believed that he only needed to find...
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By far the biggest obstacle to Reconstruction was the opposition of white Southerners. Almost immediately after the war, whites in the South formed vigilante groups to terrorize freedmen and passed...
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was a great start; even though it meant little to the Confederate government at the time, and to the Southern states still under Confederate control, Southern...
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Reconstruction solved some problems that existed in the South, but it failed to resolve others. One of the goals of Reconstruction was to rebuild the South. Reconstruction was able to move this...
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Depending on your point of view, Reconstruction can be viewed as harmful or helpful to the South. I will explain both points of view so you can then make a decision. There are ways Reconstruction...
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The Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction was considered radical because, if it would be enacted, it would bring significant changes to the South. The original goals of their plan called for...
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Reconstruction failed because white Southerners did not want black people to have social and economic opportunities and because Northerners did not really care about the subject one way or...
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To me, Reconstruction ended because the North got tired of holding the South down and doing so for the sake of black people. The people of the North were not all that comfortable with the idea of...
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Depending on how you define “major components,” you could say that there were three major components to Reconstruction. First, there was the component of military government. At the beginning...
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Reconstruction was the period from 1865 - 1877 where the government of the United States tried to put the country together again after the Civil War. In general, historians consider it an...
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Life was difficult for African Americans during Reconstruction. It was very difficult to go from a life where a person was always told what to do, when to do it, and how to do it, and then be...
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The primary difference was the degree of amnesty and leniency to be extended to the former Confederacy. President Abraham Lincoln's position was that as President he had the pardon power and the...
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The main strengths and weaknesses of this plan came from the same place. They were both related to the fact that Lincoln wanted to be lenient to the South. Lincoln's plan was going to make it easy...
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The Ku Klux Klan is a group that has typically been associated with racist beliefs. It has also been involved in nativism and antisemitism. The KKK was founded in 1866. The KKK was originally...
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I would argue that Reconstruction contained some revolutionary ideas, but put very little of that revolution into place or practice. The idea of land reform, for example, whereby freed slaves...
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There were stunning social and economic successes and failures as well. Socially, Reconstruction successfully put blacks on equal legal footing with whites, but did not change southern (or...
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There were several plans for Reconstruction. I will explain each plan so you can identify the similarities and differences. The plans were different because each person or group proposing the plan...
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Although the South lost the Civil War militarily,attempts by the North to reconstruct the South into a model of the North and completely rehabilitate former slaves was a failure. At the end of...
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There were some changes in the South as a result of Reconstruction. Before the Civil War, the South was primarily an agricultural region with lots of slavery. There were few industries in the...
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Not all Southerners felt the same way about Reconstruction, but the general feeling was that they were being occupied by a hostile foreign power. First of all, we should not that black Southerners...
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This is a complicated question because there are many ways to read it. For example, are you asking how African Americans lived during Reconstruction or are you asking how Reconstruction affected...
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The Wade-Davis Plan was more punitive in its proposed treatment of the defeated Confederacy. Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, announced in response to the need to figure out how to reconstruct some...
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The northern attitudes about Reconstruction changed over time. After the Civil War ended in 1865, many Northerners believed that they had to rebuild the South to make sure it was reformed. They...
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One of the goals of Reconstruction (in some people's opinion) was to destroy the Old South and make it more like the North. Part of that process was going to be the creation of a new class of...
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Reconstruction demonstrated that the federal government could get involved in civil rights. Through the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, African Americans went from...
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It really depends on how you define success or failure and it depends on how long of a time period you are looking at. If you just look at the period of Reconstruction and right after it,...
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To answer this question, we must decide if we are looking at the short-term or the long-term. In the short-term, Reconstruction was able to solve many of the problems caused by slavery and the...
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There were basically 3 plans for Reconstruction, Lincoln’s plan, Johnson’s plan, and the Radical Republican plan. Lincoln’s plan was known as the 10% Plan. It was simple. With a few...