Reconstruction

War and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. Reconstruction, when the North tried to determine how the South would be re-formed, was another action that prompted the opposite reaction by the Southerners to re-implement old practices, especially things like sharecropping or the forming…

Redemption Book Review Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann is a narrative about the end of reconstruction. In the exposition of the narrative, Lemann briefly describes the time period. Ulysses S. Grant was elected president and Republican state legislature created a new parish along the Red River, ensuring that its local government would be Republican due to the local courthouse not having African Americans. The parish was then named after President Grant, and the…

Almost immediately after the uprising passed, not just the city of Wilmington, but rather the entire state of North Carolina enacted laws that began the Jim Crow era and rescinded all of the progressive statutes passed under the Reconstruction government. The fact that only one major massacre was required to activate this change demonstrates just how high the tensions were boiling. The election of 1900 passed quickly and ended with an overwhelming Democratic win, mainly because blacks…

The Union League in my opinion was effective in integrating African Americans into the American society, however not effective for its intended purpose which was to protect the rights of equality for freedmen. The Union League formed when the reconstruction of the United States began, shortly after the Civil War, but ended quickly too. The Union League’s goal was to protect and maintain the rights promised to freedmen in southern states where political battles were formed…

Over the course of four years, this country was torn apart in one of the bloodiest wars it 's ever seen, one that would now be recognized as the watershed of a new modern age. The subsequent decade of reconstruction was full of change, both good and bad, which would play a key role in molding the future of the union. This change came in numerous different forms, and swept across the north and the south alike. A surprising cultural shift came in the form of both new religious awakenings, and the…

During the time of Reconstruction, from 1865 to 1877, and the Union was divided into North and South based upon slavery. The dispute of African Americans being considered freedmen or slave brought the Union to the Civil War. The North was the Union. The South was the Confederacy and lost the war. The “Lost Cause” was the South’s way to get their opinion of the Civil War and slavery across to others and reaching into future generations. This was accomplished through two large organizations, the…

Reconstruction unsuccessful due to the Hayes-Tilden Compromise of the Compromise of 1877. The Compromise of 1877 refers to a acknowledged informal, unwritten deal that settled the controversial 1876 U.S. Presidential election, considered the second "corrupt bargain", and over general assembly ("Radical") Reconstruction. Through it, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would take away the federal troops whose…

The Different Phases of Discrimination African-Americans during Reconstruction and American Indians in the Gilded Age share similar and differences during its history. In the book titled, Give Me Liberty!, by Eric Foner, talks about the history of African-Americans during Reconstruction and how states ratified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment and permit freedmen to vote. Forner also talks about the history of American Indians during the Gilded Age and how their experiences signified…

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has been a controversial terroristic group over the years in the United States since their inception. They first came into existence in the “South” during radicalization of the “Reconstruction Era.” Actually, during “pre-civil war era,” “segregation of blacks” was the norm, as they were controlled by societal elites. Historical facts depict that this “organization” was originated upon great detestation by the “Klansmen” toward the newly “emancipated freedmen” for…

revolutionary America. The social and constitutional developments that occurred as a result of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era would be deemed to a great extent revolutionary. They represented a shift in America’s attitude toward the fluid narrative of increased equal rights and federal jurisdiction over states. The United State’s involvement in the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that followed brought about several revolutionary and lasting constitutional developments. These…