Posted by 4Chancey on September 7, 2011 at 10:24am
On this day, We finished reviewing the topics of the 8th Grade Review. We started with Reconstruction. This dealt with the rebuilding of the south and bringing it back to the United States. Lincoln was easy on allowing the south to come back, and after Lincoln was assassinated, Johnson was pretty easy as well. We discussed the impeachment of Johnson (and Clinton). We touched upon the Radical Reconstruction, which rebuilt the south socially, politically and physically, split the south into 5 millitary districts, passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, set up Freedmen's Bureau, which helped former slaves, the southern government were taken over by northern people, set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, and helped ex-slaves. Then we moved on to the Compromise of 1877, where Hayes won over Tilden, and the north agreed to end the reconstruction and remove troops. The Solid South lasted until 1964, always voting democrat. After that Mr. Bruns let us study for the remainder of the class.
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