Continue Mr. Bruns' Top 10
Reconstruction:
- Lasted 12 years
- The period of time after the Civil War in which the South had to by rebuilt and reorganized- economically, socially, politically, and physically, and brought back into the Union
- Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the South
- After Lincoln was killed, Vice President, who was now President, Johnson (democrat) did not get along w/ Congress
- 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments passed (13 abolished slavery, 14 equal protection rights, made blacks citizens, 15 gave black males the right to vote)
- Women were frustrated with black males getting the right to vote before they did, spurred on women's rights
- Freedmen's Bureau set up to help former slaves- education, job training, etc.
- Southern governments taken over by "carpetbaggers" (Northerners who went south to get jobs in government) and "scalawags" (Southerners that supported carpetbaggers) These governments set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, helped-ex slaves, industrialized the South. They were hated, though, because they overtaxed and pocketed money for themselves- accused of widespread corruption by the southerners.
- Left very deep divisions between the northern states and southern states
- Once the northern governments and military left the south, traditional rich, white racist males took over
- Jim Crow segregation laws and segregation was established
- African-Americans would not see the rights they should have had in 1865 until 1964- nearly 100 years- Civil Rights movement
- Reconstruction ended because of 1876- Hayes (R) vs. Tilden (D) Tilden won popular vote and was leading electoral vote
- South voted for Hayes, and he ended Reconstruction, which they hated- The Compromise of 1877
War of 1812
- Fishing disputes off the coast of Canada
- We felt like Britain was inciting Native Americans to attack us
- Impressment- British sailors went to American Navy, British forced them to come back
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