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    African Americans were left to suffer harsh discrimination and horrible conditions. Africans Americans were left without homes, education, jobs, or money. Reconstruction was the Radical Republicans’ attempt to try and bring the Confederate states back to normal and unite both the South and the North into a whole country once again. Reconstruction was also set to protect and help the newly freed African Americans assimilate to the new society and the foreign economy they were placed in. Conditions

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    The period of Reconstruction began after the Civil War ended. There were many leaders, goals and accomplishments that were involved and needed to rebuild our separated country. The main idea of this period of time was to protect and ensure the rights of African Americans but it had failed because of the restrictions and acts on the African Americans. The people in the South were terrorized by an American hate organization called the Ku Klux Klan (or the KKK). Republicans in Congress, argued on whether

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    The Reconstruction The Reconstruction period is the time after the Civil War where the South was rebuilding their economy and daily lives. The Reconstruction period after the Union victory was brutal. This period helped shape the South into a better place. Many people were killed in the war, soldiers, and civilians. Yet, without this event in history, many things would be different. The Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. It lasted from 1861-1865. Most of the North thought slavery was

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    Unit 1 Paper The United States changed dramatically during the reconstruction period. After the reconstruction period, the United Stated continued to adjust well as we see it change economically and politically. Though the adjustment continued to go well, the change that occurs after reconstruction is emphasized with industrialization and the impact that industrialization has in certain regions of the U.S and on the people. Along with the new economy came with complications that affected the improvement

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    The reconstruction period was the period right after the Civil War. It lasted from 1865 until 1877. During the reconstruction period the North tried to rebuild the South after the Civil War. Since the North won the war they were in charge of who got to come back into the Union and what they had to do to come back into the Union. The enemies of reconstruction prevented true progress in the reconstruction period. President Lincoln was President until the very beginning of the reconstruction period

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    The Unfinished Revolution The Civil War and Reconstruction periods had many positive outcomes for America, such as the reunification of the Union, the expansion of the North and South’s economy, education for all, and much more. Although there were many positive results from these two periods, there was also an aftermath of much failure. The post Civil War, and Reconstruction period consisted of the formation of the Ku Klux Klan and the black code laws. Despite the fact that African American’s were

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    Question 1: The period of Reconstruction occurred between 1865 to 1877. It happened right after the civil war and it is a period of political dispute over the rights of African Americans, confederate states and reunion of the nation. The Reconstruction period of categorized into Wartime Reconstruction, Presidential Reconstruction and Congressional or Radical Reconstruction. The Reconstruction period greatly affected South in terms of reunion and African American rights. Even though the Congress

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    The reconstruction period followed after the Civil War which was caused by the abolishment of slavery and many other contributing factors. Most scholars believe that this period was the political uprising at a national level. The debate started in December 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued to weaken the Confederate side. Nevertheless, the reconstruction period was to rebuild the new United States and government. ECONOMIC IMPACTS Most of the Confederate soldiers

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    The Reconstruction Period I think is a problem for the African Americans back then. They were treated unfairly during this period, when it was to being them a new started and hope of change. Don’t get me wrong there were some people who were for them to e happy, but not many. So, let start at the being; where it all happened. In January of 1865, Union General William T. Sherman issued a special field order Number 15, which temporary granted each freed family 40 acres of land off the region of Georgia

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    After the North won the civil war, it was time to rebuild this nation. This period of reconstruction was supposed to have a profound change on society. Unfortunately this was not the case. Reconstruction did not fundamentally alter this nation. Not to say that nothing happened, but nothing that really made a change or difference happened. First, the control of the south was given right back to the planter elite. Also, even though slavery was abolished; blacks were not free. Finally, Congress

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