Southern United States

Lincolns master planes for the reconstruction of the south, included the 10% plan. This plan clearly states that a southern state could be rejoined into the union again once 10% of its voters swore it over of allegiance to the union. 4. What views did pres. Andrew Johnson represent? Andrew Johnson quickly tried to block all help and supplies to force Southerners states to guarantee full equality for blacks. After the first eight months he was in office, he began to get more…

integrated after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Prior to Reconstruction, African Americans were enslaved by Southern landowners. However, after the Civil War, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were passed, allowing former slaves and people of African American descent to receive all of the privileges of being a United States citizen. For instance, when Georgia was composing its new state constitution during Reconstruction, 37 out of 169 delegates were of African American descent. From this,…

centuries sparked significant changes in the United States. The exodus of Southern blacks to the Northeast and Midwest post-emancipation and during the Great Migration reveals the connection between internal migration and ghettoization in the United States. The formation of these ghettos is characterized by the racial prejudice of the era, racially charged violence in the form of race riots, and the development of black culture within the United States. This is best exemplified by the…

Final Paper Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Virginia. He was an American educator, author, and advisor to presidents of the United States. During the period of 1890 until 1915, he was one of the dominant leaders in the African-American community. He was the last generation of African-American leader that was born into slavery and later became the voice of the black population after the Civil War. Washington won the wide support from the black community in the…

locality and under the same government. I have lived in two distinct communities which are the African community and the United States Southern community. What I do admire most about them are hospitality, manners, sense of community, respect, and the desire for learning. However, I will love to improve on my African community the disregard for female education and in my American Southern community the fragments of racial discrimination and prejudice. Hospitality, communal sense, respect and…

The migration of Southern African-Americans to the North between 1910 and 1920 was mainly due to economic and social concerns. The South still reeling from the effects of Civil War Reconstruction, the South was slow to recover economically. First, agricultural problems…

John K. Bettersworth of 1959, show the premeditated idea of secession from the southern states to withdrawal from the Union if Lincoln is elected as president. The differences in History books within the United States during different periods, many Historians, powerful individuals, and groups had a slanted viewpoint on slavery and the South. Some used their influence to persuade others, one such group was the UDC. The United Daughters of the Confederacy is an association of female descendants of…

established on March 3rd 1865 during the civil war and lasted until the early 1870s. It had been passed by Abraham Lincoln and was originally only suppose to last a year after the war had ended. It was mainly controlled under the war department of the United States and known as a bureau for refugees, freedman, and abandoned lands. Its main function and purpose was to provide assistance to the millions of former slaves in the south as they made the transition from being a slave to a freedman as…

American South, is Kenneth K. Baily’s Southern White Protestantism in the Twentieth Century. Bailey offers a history of the South, focusing on the ideas of white society from the 1900s to the author’s present time-1964. When a study of any part of southern history takes place, some focus must be given to African American culture. This is especially true when focusing on Christianity, which Bailey fails to do. The black population has molded and influenced the southern culture as much as whites…

throughout its history in the United States, still existing today. It began in 1866 in Pulaski Tennessee, during the era of Reconstruction, following the Civil War. An ex-Confederate officer by the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest founded it as a white supremacist group that focused on brotherhood and the good of their superior race, politically, economically, and socially. They sought to combat reconstruction legislation that hindered the power of the previous confederate states in the south. In…