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| Presidential Reconstruction |
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| It was important because Abraham Lincoln evolved a reconstruction policy during the middle years of the war. |
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| The Radical reconstruction is the agenda was to find opportunities to continue punishing the South; protecting the freedmen (and women and children) whom the Republicans had just rescued from slavery; and (if necessary to accomplish that protection) remaking the U.S. government by diminishing the powers of the President and the Supreme Court and making the Republican Congress the rulers of the country. |
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| It was important because they were to readmit and rebuild the Confederate states and help African Americans back into society. |
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| In any word of the confederate state, the voters of the 1860 presidential election took the oath in which they might write a new state constitution with specific requirements, elect a new state government, and that state would be considered reconstructed and restored to its place in the Union back in the United States which was Lincoln’s original reason for making war on the South. |
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| . Such governments had to be Republican in form, must recognize the “permanent freedom” of the slaves, and must provide for black education. |
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| It needs to be a republic in order for all people to equally participate in the government. |
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| The Wade-Davis Bill is important because it provided for constitutional conventions only after a majority of the others in a southern state had taken a loyalty oath. |
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| It formulated a far more stringent and vengeful policy than the President's. |
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| It means that the Southern states succeeded from the Union and left to be loyal. |
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| He was the first president that is impeached for firing one of Lincoln’s cabinet members. |
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| This is important because he was the president until his impeachment for violating the Tenure of Office Act of 1867. |
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| an exclusive social club in Philadelphia for upper-class males, rich black males are created to get black men voting which has been adopted during the war as a title for patriotic clubs throughout the North. |
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| Republicans began developing Union leagues in the South to recruit and register black voters and ensure that they got to the polls and voted Republican on election day. |
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| This was important because of these new black Southern Republican voters that Ulysses S. Grant and the Republican Party were able to retain their hold on the White House in 1872. |
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| . It changed our country and our culture that it had been adopted during the war as a title for patriotic clubs throughout the North. Now, Republicans began developing Union Leagues in the South to recruit and register black voters and ensure that they got to the polls and voted (Republican) on election day. |
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| . With their rituals and secret passwords and their mystique of Father Abraham, black men flocked to the Union Leagues, and the Republican Party in the Southern states became massive with the infusion of new black voters. |
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| In most obvious, are these massive black voters. |
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| The presidency of the US Army that protects the governments. |
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| He was important because he dedicated Reconstruction to the elevation of the black race, to voting rights for African- Americans, and to the radical equality. |
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| Thaddeus Stevens believed in racial equality due to success of equality in black families. |
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| He had a black common law wife and specified that he be buried in a black cemetery. |
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| He was important because he was the Senator complaining that “The South have been allowed to surrender too early that it should have been compelled to fight on, to be further ground into the dust.” |
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| He wanted to see the South Americanized to make white Southerners think and behave like Northerners. |
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| It is important because it was basically meant to control the rebel states. |
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| each of them is ruled by a major general despite the appearance of continued civilian control war via Republican governors and state legislatures |
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| This was important because Freedman’s Bureau acted as a welfare agency for blacks and poor whites and as an education and labor bureau (and labor relations board). |
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| It had been established in March 1865 to care for refugees. |
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| It is important because it was founded as a social club in 1866 by a handful of former Confederate soldiers who lived in Tennessee which became a vigilante group that used violence and intimidation to drive African Americans out of politics. |
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| The movement declined in the late 1870s but resurfaced in the 1920s as a political organization that opposed all groups-immigrants, religious, and racial- that challenged Protestant white hegemony. |
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| citizenship- granting voting rights to black adult males. This is important because black men attained the vote in the South. |
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| It was important because the Fifteenth Amendment was sent to states for ratification. |
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| It is important because it is the period beginning with the liberal readmission of southern states to the Union as proposed by Lincoln and his successor Andrew Johnson. |
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| Black codes are labor laws. |
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| Basic law requires a slave to have a job. |
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| They were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War. |
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| This act was important because a president cannot fire or dismiss a cabinet officer or any officer that is approved by congress. |
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| It was important because it was an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. |
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| It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era which involved Democrats who controlled the House of Representatives allowing the decision of the Electoral Commission to take effect. |
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| Through the Compromise, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. |
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| It was important because were white supremacist paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States. |
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| Red Shirt groups originated in Mississippi in 1875, when Democratic Party private terror units adopted red shirts to make themselves more visible and threatening to Southern Republicans, both whites and freedmen. |
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| President Rutherford B. Hayes |
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| He was important because he was a former general with an untarnished reputation. |
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| It was important because it was the electoral voting bloc of the states of the Southern United States for issues that were regarded as particularly important to the interests of Democrats in those states. |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| Transcontinental railroad was important because to help defray the costs of building a Transcontinental Railroad linking California with the rest of the country, the U.S. Government gave the railroad companies millions of acres of land. |
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| He was important because an American financier and vice president of the Union Pacific railroad. |
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| He was one of the founders of the Credit Mobilier company The Credit Mobilier scandal of 1867, which came to public attention in 1872, involved the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad who was accused of the Credit Mobilier scandal. |
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| It was important because it was a sham construction company which was the illegal manipulation of contracts by a construction and finance company associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad their bribes and payoffs to congressmen and other created a major Grant administration scandal. |
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| He was important because he was the most important influence in the building of the Union Pacific portion of the transcontinental railroad. |
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| He was important because he was the father of the Texas Panhandle. |
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| He was important because he was a rancher and a cattle driver who helped the cattle industry grow. |
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| This event was important because several hundred Indians were killed by a party of Colorado militia while they were at Sand Creek. |
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| Sand creek was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry under the command of U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 150–500 Native Americans, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. |
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| He was important because was an American Methodist pastor and Mason who served as a colonel in the United States Volunteers during the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War. |
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| In 1864, a party of Colorado militia fell on an unsuspecting Cheyenne community at Sand Creek and killed several hundred Indians. |
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| It was important because it because it occurred on November 27, 1868 when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Black Kettle's Southern Cheyenne camp on the Washita River (near present-day Cheyenne, Oklahoma). |
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| After the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty, the president required to move south from present-day Kansas and Colorado to a new reservation in Indian Territory (modern Oklahoma). |
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| He was important because he was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. |
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| On February 1, 1866, Major General Custer mustered out of the U.S. volunteer service and took an extended leave of absence and awaited orders to September 24. |
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| He explored options in New York City, where he considered careers in railroads and mining. |
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| It was important because it is a fraternal organization in the United States that encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture. |
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| The Grange, founded after the Civil War in 1867, is the oldest American agricultural advocacy group with a national scope. |
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| The Grange actively lobbied state legislatures and Congress for political goals, such as the Granger Laws to lower rates charged by railroads, and rural free mail delivery by the Post Office. |
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| He was important because he is one of the key founders of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization in the United States. |
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| He was a U.S. Department of Agriculture employee who toured the South shortly after the war. |
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| He was shocked at the living conditions of Southern farmers and decided that something had to be done for them. |
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| It was important because it is a slogan in the history of the American South and an exclusively agrarian society to one that embraced industrial development and transitioned from farmers to factory workers. |
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| He was important because he was a journalist and orator who helped reintegrate. |
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| Grady was also praised for his great passion for political oratory (he supported Prohibition and a Georgia veterans' home for disabled or elderly Confederate soldiers), commitment to the new peace, and well-known sense of humor. |
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| It is important because it expanded in northeastern Texas which rapidly spread throughout the cotton states after 1885. But the Alliances had more success on the political front. |
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| The Southern, Midwestern, and Colored Farmers’ Alliances pulled into a loose association, elected a few governors, some state and federal legislators, and out of this success evolved what many had been calling for, a third political party dedicated to the interests of the farmers. |
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| Populists are important because they began to elect state legislatures, then a few governors, then even a few senators and representatives to Congress. |
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| Presidential Reconstruction |
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| It changed our country by being widely viewed as an era of corruption and misgovernment, supposedly caused by allowing blacks to take part in politics. |
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| It changed our country and our culture by it becoming a national historic site in Colorado |
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| transcontinental railroad |
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| It changed America by moving to the forefront of the world's stage |
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