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My Vision for Reconstruction After Lincoln’s assassination from John Wilkes Booth, all of his hard work and diligence put into his well thought-out reconstruction plan was destroyed. Lincoln’s main priority throughout his rein of presidency was to reunite the seceded states of the Confederates back into the Union. After the massive destruction the south received of the long battling days of the the Civil war, the south was left as a barren, destroyed wasteland. Lincoln sought after the plan to bring the south back up to it's urbanized and farming glory. He felt an emotional pity for the heavy loss and damage that many of the southern states would not have gained. Lincoln wanted to avoid any punishment that many people tried to persuade him to give to the southerners. With the swearing of an oath, Lincoln would fully trust the south and put his plans into action. Lincoln proposed that 10% of the former confederate people were required to swear an oath of loyalty. Lincoln realized that pre Civil war south was abundant in producing crops and other vegetables. As …show more content…

The whole point in reconstruction was to build back up the southern states that lost the Civil War after succession to their former “glory”. If funds become an issue, that is when the slaves, as mentioned previously, received the money and land they earned from their previous slave owners. The South should not return to the Union just to suffer overall with a bad economy and landscape. The south is again apart of OUR country and a Freedmen’s Bureau is made to help and build back up the southern states. Radical Republicans and Lincoln were strong supporters of the Freedmen’s Bureau and wanted it to be a big major focus in the plans of reconstruction (Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan). Andrew Johnson was a former slave owner and vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau, an important factor that needed to be a part of any reconstruction

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Reconstruction era was when the country was divided with race and religion and other issues, and can be tied into modern day with the racism and how the divided with social and political issues. Abraham Lincoln's ideology of giving African Americans rights divided the country, which led to the Civil War; as a result, the North won the Civil War, which led to the Reconstruction period for the nation. One can relate the same issue with the current President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, for his ideology of the country needing a change, has caused the nation to express certain opinions and has brought out the racism that was been kept within the society, so the resurface of the KKK, who openly express racism to African Americans.

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Abraham Lincoln’s vs Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan Lincoln shared the uncommon belief that the confederate states could still be part of the union and that the cause of the rebellion was only a few within the states which lead him to begin the reconstruction in December of 1863. This resulted in plans with lenient guidelines and although they were challenged by Wade-Davis Bill, Lincoln still rejected his ideas and kept his policies in place. Lincoln also allowed land to be given the newly freed slave or homeless white by distributing the land that had been confiscated from former land owners however this fell through once Johnson took office. After Lincoln’s death when Johnson was elected many things started to turn away from giving blacks equal rights and resulted in many things such a black codes which kept newly freed slaves from having the same rights as whites. When Lincoln first acted after the civil war, he offered policies that would allow the confederate slaves to become part of the union again and would allow a pardon for those states.

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Andrew Johnson was one of the inspiring leaders of the movement called Reconstruction in the United States. Reconstruction was a time of rebuilding the United States after the Civil War. After the end of the civil war, the period of Reconstruction took place in the South. F. Milton and Howard. Beale play such a great or important role in terms of changing people's mind about their perception on seeing racism of the traditional view.

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The Freedmen 's bureau was also known as the bureau of refugees,freedmen,and abandoned land but was most commonly refers to as Freedmen 's bureau. The Freedmen 's bureau was a federal government agency that helped many newly freed slaves from the south gain a chance to get their life 's back on track. The Freedmens bureau was created by Abraham Lincoln on March 3rd 1865.It was intended to last for a year after the civil war ended. The Freedmens bureau played a huge role in the era of reconstruction and made many abolitionist happy about achieving their goal of freeing slaves.

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The end of the Civil War presented a unique crossroads for the war torn United States. How would the North and South reunite? At the helm, there was a moderate politician and a reflective thinker – President Abraham Lincoln. One of the greatest statesmen of all time, Lincoln had advocated a lenient stance, envisioning a “restoration” whereby the southern states would pledge allegiance and reenter the Union under the Constitution.

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Indeed, the need for reconstruction was more than welcome. Recontruction, 1865-1877 President Abraham Lincoln had a flexible and realistic approach towards reconstruction. He insisted that slaves had to be emancipated, and this could only be possible after defeating the Southerners. In this regard, he appointed military governors like Andrew Johnson, whose success in the reconstitution of Tennessee proved worthwhile, leading to his recommendation as vice president on the Republican ticket under Lincoln in 1864 (Klotter et al., 2005). Following the assassination of President Lincoln, with Andrew Johnson assuming power, it was believed that he would be able to work well with the Congress, in order to effectively administer the reconstruction process.

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Without congress controlling reconstruction President Johnson would have been able to do whatever he wanted and this could be a bad thing considering some of his

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Shortly after President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated into presidency, the American Civil War began, and is currently recorded as one of the bloodiest battles in American history. It is undeniable that Lincoln had a difficult job. In fact, Paul Boller stated, “The burdens he bore during the Civil War were far heavier than those of most American Presidents… Lincoln had to proceed cautiously to avoid alienating the border slave states and offending public opinion.” With this in mind, Lincoln generally one main goal within the beginning Civil War, which was to preserve the union. However, later on, he went on to change his mind on abolishing slavery.

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The Reconstruction Era of American history was plagued by many problems. One of the most important problems being the recently released from slavery Freedmen. Freedmen were in a tricky situation in which they had just been released from their owner and had nowhere to go, but the Federal Government made many successful attempts to help them out. The Government helped alleviate all the problems Freedmen had from their finances to basic needs and rights, and in doing so, made the period of reconstruction more helpful than harmful for Freedmen. The events of reconstruction were helpful to freedmen as they were not only freed from slavery, they were given rights directly from the federal government.

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After the war ended, Abraham Lincoln began Reconstruction to fix what the war has destroyed. Reconstruction redefined what is meant to be an American because it now gave the African American’s a period where they could enjoy employment and participating in the political process. The article, Free People of Color in Louisiana, from LSU Libraries state's “Land ownership by free blacks in the South was less common, and those who worked in agriculture were often overseers and occasionally bookkeepers, business managers, and attorneys on the farms of white relatives.” This part of Reconstruction redefined what is meant to be an American because now colored men can work and own land like white men which threatening Southern farm owners. The 15th

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What were the goals of Reconstruction? Why weren 't all of these goals achieved? Was Reconstruction a failure? Support your answers with details and examples. Reconstruction - the federal government plan to solve the issues formed from the end of the Civil War – can be divided into 2 parts: physically rebuilding the South and reconstructing the Southern Society.

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Some of the freed slaves were also encouraged to move to the Northern cities where jobs would be available. The Freedmen’s Bureau Acts of 1865 was a relief Act to the freed African Americans for one year and was a major factor that impacted a struggle between President Andrew Johnson and Radical Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction and the federal government's role in integrating four million newly emancipated African Americans into the political life of the nation. There was a revision in legislation that created a debate of which department would control the Freedmen's Bureau. Senators disputed the role of the federal government in providing a specific group special treatment at the exclusion of others.

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You can see how reconstruction was supposed to help the newly freed slaves while the definition of reconstruction says that it was, “ensuring the rights and protection of the newly freed African Americans,” (Terms to know, On reconstruction.) This shows how some of the intentions of reconstruction were supposed to help bring newly freed slaves safely into the society. The newly freed slaves would have been fond of the idea of being brought safely into the society. You can see this again when it says, “Presidential reconstruction began in 1865 with the ratification() passing of the thirteenth amendment freeing slaves, and continued lincoln’s signature of the bill that created the Freedmen's Bureau. The Bureau was to feed both black and whites in the south, establish schools to teach former slaves to read and write, help them find paying jobs, and shield them from discrimination,” (Stage One: Presidential reconstruction 1865 - 1866.)

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Reconstruction is during which the United States began to rebuild the Southern society after they lost to the civil war. It lasted from 1865 to 1877, and it was initiated by President Lincoln until his assassination in 1865. President Johnson continued Lincoln’s agenda to continue the Reconstruction. Throughout the process of Reconstruction, one of its main purpose was to guarantees for equal rights for all people, especially for the African Americans. Even though slavery was abolished after the civil war, many Southerners were still against the idea of equal rights for all black people, such as the Republicans.

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During the late 1800s, because the South had been decimated by the end of the Civil War, .the Reconstruction Period was initiated to aid the South’s recovery. Although the Civil War did abolish slavery and unify the North and the South, the war not resolve racial prejudice, the South’s damage, and the African Americans’ economic instability. The Reconstruction Period was initiated in order to prevent economic instability and the structural ruin, because since slavery was abolished, and the South was completely dependent on slaves, therefore slaves could not work for the South to maintain the economy, and slaves also could not fix up the damages done to the structures done to the South during the war. By starting the Freedmen’s Bureau and passing

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