The Reconstruction of America

The Reconstruction Era was when America first let black men, and white men live together. It is also when the Federal Government decided to let the Southern States back in. In 1862, Abraham Lincoln decided to appoint military governors to re-establish the Southern states that were recaptured by the Union Army. That meant trouble. The most important thing that Lincoln made clear was that the re-admittance was that the minimum of 10 percent of the voting population in 1860, was to take an oath of…

Reconstruction Era Reconstruction national debate began during the civil war in 1863. The Emancipation proclamation was passed in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln the he announced a plan for reconstruction, which was called the ten percent plan. This plan was implemented to weaken the Confederacy. The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts and outlined how new governments, based on manhood suffrage without regard to race, were to be established.…

Political leadership guided the North and South landscape, but the military leadership guided the battlefield. The Civil War was a modern war compared to the Napoleonic wars and for the South; Lee is seen by some scholars as a leader out of touch with modern warfare while other generals such as those from the Union were waging a modern style of warfare. In the article, An Old-Fashioned Soldier in a Modern War?: Robert E. Lee as Confederate General, Gary Gallagher takes a historiographical…

France tried to replicate the great American Revolution, but ended up just copying the Americans’ “cutting not their sewing” forcing the ultimate failure where America was successful. The American Revolution came as a direct result of the anger of the colonists and the desire to protect their “unalienable rights” of life, liberty, (property), and the pursuit of happiness. Britain began to tax the colonies to make up for the war debts and the colonists thought that was unfair and fought for…

The United States has made highly momentous developments concerning liberty, equality, and power from the time of the Reconstruction to today. The United States was founded on such principles and the U.S. has made every effort in order to ensure the progression of those values. Many movements have surfaced throughout the course of U.S. history, each one bringing Americans one step closer to achieving liberty, equality, and power. One of the clearest evidences of increased liberty, equality, and…

and move peacefully into reconstruction. Some southerners obeyed Lee’s request while other acted like the war never ended making the transition into reconstruction arduous. However, the federal government did not help anything by having a difficult time deciding on how to deal with the South. Once the Radical Republicans finally took control of Congress a strict and harsh reconstruction began that southern democrats adamantly spoke out and rebelled against. Reconstruction was quickly becoming a…

When the Civil War was finally over in the spring of 1865, political leaders wrestled with how to help former slaves make the transition from bondage to citizenship. It means the reconstruction should enable freed slaves to control their labor, reunite with their family members, gain education for their children, enjoy full participation in political life, and create their own community organizations and social life. The Radical Republicans followed southern society model by granting freed…

So many proud men have held the office of the United Sates of America but who is considered the best president of all time?Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States and by most is considered the best president ever in office.Abe had many acomplisments while in office he defeated the south in the american civil war, by doing that he ended slavery, and he started and made the plans for reconstruction.There has been may presidents with great acomplishments but Abes Stands out as the…

a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery, federal protection of the freed people’s rights, and confiscation of the land of leading Confederates. The Democratic candidate for president was General George B. McClellan. Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War The Sea Island Experiment The Union occupied the Sea Islands…

the Southern states, this what lead us to civil war. Between these national crisis it was the breaking point for the young country. Reconstruction was needed and the period following the civil war, the reconstruction period, fostered many significant results and achievements especially for Constitutional amendments. While mending a broken country, the reconstruction period still left many fresh wounds. Passing laws wasn’t enough, to make a change would take a leader strong enough to change the…