what were the terms of the reconstruction act (after the american civil war?)?
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There is an excellent and balanced article in Wikipedia.Com that answers your question in extensive detail - the web address is below.\n\nThe Reconstruction Acts were a series of laws adopted by Congress to finish the subjugation of the controlling society of the rebellious states. It went overboard - like the Congressional response to the 9/11 attacks, which has only served to unite Islam against the USA and to attempt subjugation of all American citizens, not just "terrorists."\n\nHere is what Chief Justice Salmon Chase was saying about Reconstruction in 1868 - 2 years into the Reconstruction period:\n\n"Congress was right in not limiting, by its reconstruction acts, the right of suffrage to whites; but wrong in the exclusion from suffrage of certain classes of citizens and all unable to take its prescribed retrospective oath, and wrong also in the establishment of despotic military governments for the States and in authorizing military commissions for the trial of civilians in time of peace. There should have been as little military government as possible; no military commissions; no classes excluded from suffrage; and no oath except one of faithful obedience and support to the Constitution and laws, and of sincere attachment to the constitutional Government of the United States."\n\nThank you for asking this great question - there are parallels to what is happening, or attempted, in the USA today.
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This is going to be just a quick summary...\nFor the most part, it was not all about slavery. The states North of the Mason-Dixon line were content with slavery in the South...the problem was the "Westward Expansion." The North wanted the new states to be free from slavery, whereas the South wanted those states to be open to slavery. There were a few compromises made years before the actual war began, however, those obviously did not work. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina announced it's leave from the Union...Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas followed. \nOn February 4th, 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed with Jefferson Davis as the president. A new constitution was drawn up. Key differences were:\n*The president and vice president were elected for six year terms whereas the North had only four years. \n*The protection of slavery in new territories was given. \n*No slave trade with Africa\n*President Davis could take a loan for $15 million for the creation of a military force of 100,000. \nPresident Davis was inaugurated February 18, 1861. \n\nPresident Lincoln for the Union said, "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face and face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after seperation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old quesetions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it..." (Page 8)\nThe first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12th, 1861 at Ft. Sumter, South Carolina. The fight lasted for thirty-four hours, and ended by the North surrendering. The war continued until April of 1865. \nAfter it was all said and done, most of the South was destroyed and the loss of lives on both ends, are up to this day, only an estimate (over 100,000). It is said, the number of Yanks and Rebels who died are greater than the loss of American lives in both World Wars, the Korean War, and the Vietiman War...all combined.\n\nI hope this has been helpful to you. Here are some other books to check out if you are really interested in the Civil War:\n-"After the Civil War" by John S. Blay\n-"The Life of Johnny Reb" by Bell I. Wiley\n-"The Life of Billy Yank" by Bell I. Wiley\n-"Embattled Courage" by Gerald F. Linderman\n-"The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts" by Burke Davis
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Lincoln asked them to abolish slavery. The Southern Sates did not agree as that would mean losing their entire workforce which worked in their plantations and farms and were the source of their wealth and economy.\n\nFaced with no choice, the Southern States left, what followed was the Civil War.
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Lincoln was not an abolitionist at first, but when Uncle Tom's Cabin was released, he believed it was wrong. He wasn't just upholding the law because then, it was not illegal to have slaves. The 13th Amendment wasn't made until after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.
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<There is no such thing.You probably meant Emancipation Proclamation. Emancipation Proclamation, in U.S. history, the executive order abolishing slavery in the Confederate States of America.\n\nOn Jan. 1, 1863, the formal and definite Emancipation Proclamation was issued. The President, by virtue of his powers as commander in chief, declared free all those slaves residing in territory in rebellion against the federal government as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion. Congress, in effect, had done as much in its confiscation acts of Aug., 1861, and July, 1862, but its legislation did not have the popular appeal of the Emancipation Proclamation—despite the great limitations of the proclamation, which did not affect slaves in those states that had remained loyal to the Union or in territory of the Confederacy that had been reconquered. These were freed in other ways (see slavery). Nor did the proclamation have any immediate effect in the vast area over which the Confederacy retained control. Confederate leaders, however, feared that it would serve as an incitement to insurrection and denounced it.
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Seriously? The Civil War was a war between North and South. It started in 1861 and lasted years. The reasons for the war range from slavery to states rights. It is a very important part of American history and you really need to study up on it.
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fugitive slave laws allowed for slaves who escaped to be brought back into slavery even after they made it to the north.\n\nThey made it harder for African Americans to be free and escape slavery.
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Civil War\nFreeing of the Slaves\nAssassination\nFirst telegraph ever sent\nFirst man from Illinois ever to be elected president
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http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/910/The_KansasNebraska_Act_passed\nhttp://www.mtlakes.org/ld/news/openpage/classprojects/Civil_War/kannebact.htm\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dkansas%2Bnebraska%2Bact%26sm%3DYahoo%2521%2BSearch%26fr%3DFP-tab-img-t%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3D%26ei%3DUTF-8&w=275&h=295&imgurl=www.east-buc.k12.ia.us%2F99_00%2FCW%2Fkls%2Fkls4.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.east-buc.k12.ia.us%2F99_00%2FCW%2Fkls%2Fkls1.htm&size=14.7kB&name=kls4.jpg&p=kansas+nebraska+act&type=jpeg&no=13&tt=161&ei=UTF-8\n\nTry these
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North and South. Union and Confederate, it was the war over abolishing slavery. The Confederates left the United States, and started the own government as rebels and traitors. The Confederacy had it's own money (currency) and President, although I can't remember what his name was. The North (Union) defeated the South in the Civil War, and reunited the United States. So look up the Civil War on the Web through "Ask Jeeves". Good Luck.
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The Amendment in practice emancipated only the slaves of Delaware and Kentucky, as everywhere else the slaves had been freed by state action or by the federal government's Emancipation Proclamation.\n\nThe thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several states by the Thirty-eighth Congress, on January 31, 1865.
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This was a period in which the former States of the Confederacy were impelled and coerced through a societal transformation.  During this period 10 to 15 percent of the white voters were disfranchised as the local Republican Party united illiterate blacks, “scalawags,” and northern “Carpetbaggers” into an unscrupulous political triumvirate that indulged in an orgy of extravagance, corruption, and debauchery.  (from “Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men,” by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel).  \n\nDuring this same period, the Union military occupation forces made elected members of some State legislatures removed from office because they would not support ratification of the 14th Amendment.  They then replaced these legislatures with hand picked individuals who would vote the way they wanted.  While this is clearly extra-Constitutional, in the 1869 case of Texas v. White these acts of the Union were justified as legitimate “by right of conquest.”  \n\nThese acts of reconstruction were far outside the intent for Reconstruction of President Lincoln (prior to his assassination) further destroying the culture of these States and building resentment which would last for generations into the future.  For those interested they could find interesting such books as:\n\n“The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln” by Claude G. Bowers;\n“History of the United States From the Compromise of 1850 to the Restoration of Home Rule in the South in 1877”, by James Ford Rhodes;\nAlso by William Archibald Dunning, “Reconstruction: Political and Economic, 1865 – 1877; and,\nEssays on the Civil War and Reconstruction,” 2nd edition.
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Good job! Evidently, you've done your homework! \n\nMany aren't aware that the American Civil War was "NOT" about slavery. Nor are many aware that slaves were still being held as private property in the North during that time. Abraham Lincoln owned a slave during the war, and Union General U.S. Grant owned 4. \n\nThe war was, from the Southern standpoint, over States Rights, i.e., a state had authority over the federal government within it's own borders. And also, to defend against an illegal military invasion from the North. \n\nBut it's always the victors in war that write the history, isn't it?
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In American history the "Gilded Age" refers to the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era, from 1865 to 1901, which saw unprecedented economic, territorial, industrial, and population expansion. \n\nThese links should help.
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The Reconstruction era scarred the South (the results can still be seen today). It was a glaring example of why a one party system does not work, and how forcing reparation or reparation type laws on the losing side of a war will spark dissension and possibly future violence.\n\nBecause they completely lost their pride and their power, certain elements in the South radicalized. Their mistreatment of minorities (namely blacks) caused widespread debate, hatred, and racism.
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Former slaves, who were only thought as property and less than human, now were counted as part of the population. And even though many went North after the end of the Civil War, most stayed in the place where they knew. So if there was a plantation, which had over a hundred slaves that were not counted as part of the population before, now were considered part of it. And as you know the House of Representatives gives as many seats out for each state depending on how many people live in the state and not on how big the state is. And more representatives meant more political power in Washington, DC. Don't forget also, that the Southern states after the Civil War were not governed by Southerners, Northerners were put in charge and Reconstruction took place (which was both positive and negitive).
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America's first and worst attempt at paternalistic socialism.\n\nIt was designed to 'reconstruct' the Confederate states after the Civil War so they could eventually --once they were "reconstruted" -- rejoin the union and participate in Congress and vote (Virginia was the last to be allowed back in in 1877).\n\nViscious, punitive and full of reverse-racism, Reconstruction put the Ku Klux Klan on its feet and set back racial harmony for another 90 years, until nationwide freeways and the universal use of television.