The South's War The American Civil War was an event that changed the future of the United States of America. ... It was a large cotton plantation with many slaves working the fields, in the house and as personal servants, which was typical plantation life of the era. ... When Scarlett was chatting with the Tarleton twins they brought up war excitedly and she exclaimed, "Why there isn't going to be any war!" ... The war arrived in Atlanta as Scarlett fled for Tara. ... The Civil war affected the lives of Southerners eminently before, during, and after the war. ...

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The Reconstruction Era is called one of America's most controversial periods. ... The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877 by Kenneth M. ... Stampp is an expert in Civil War history and is the author of Indiana Politics during the Civil War, And the War Came, and The Peculiar Institution. ... To start out his first chapter of The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877, he named it "The Tragic Legend of Reconstruction." ... In November 1917, he was premier and minister of war. ...

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The Reconstruction Era was a very trying time for America. The country just ended the long deliberated, destructive civil war, leaving the south in utter ruins. ... Lincoln's Plan was started before the official end to the war. ... Alas the era of Reconstruction came to an end with the enactment of the Compromise of 1877. ... And so ends out era of Reconstruction....

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From the "era of good feeling" to the "era of good stealing", the economy in the United States has not always been stable. ... With the Civil War over, there was another war to be fought. This war, although not physical, was a war to reconstruct the union and rebuild the failing economy. ... The Civil War was a defensive war for the south. ... The Civil War was expected to be a short and quick war and an easy defeat for the north; however, the war lasted approximately four years and resulted in over 600,000 deaths. ...

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The Reconstruction era that followed the American Civil War was a time of great challenge for everybody involved. ... The article is an account of the reconstruction era through the eyes of a Northerner. ... A. who was involved in the lumber business prior to enlisting in the war. ... His prosperity ended as soon as the war did. ... After the war's end, he found himself a very comfortable, respectable living. ...

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The government of the United States of America tried to assemble the nation after the Civil War. ... This picture is meant to convey to the audience of that era that the Klan didn't limit its acts of violence to African Americans. ... In addition, the Reconstruction era was a complete failure. ... Finally, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan made everything deteriorate due to their radical ways of declining African Americans their freedom, thus making the Reconstruction era ineffective....

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The government of the United States of America tried to assemble the nation after the Civil War. ... This picture is meant to convey to the audience of that era that the Klan didn't limit its acts of violence to African Americans. ... In addition, the Reconstruction era was a complete failure. ... Finally, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan made everything deteriorate due to their radical ways of declining African Americans their freedom, thus making the Reconstruction era ineffective....

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The government of the United States of America tried to assemble the nation after the Civil War. ... This picture is meant to convey to the audience of that era that the Klan didn't limit its acts of violence to African Americans. ... In addition, the Reconstruction era was a complete failure. ... Finally, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan made everything deteriorate due to their radical ways of declining African Americans their freedom, thus making the Reconstruction era ineffective....

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When the smoke of the civil war cleared, the US entered a new era. This era was nest known as reconstruction. Reconstruction was the government's grand plan to rebuild the south and reunite the states. There was a huge problem ahead however. The president and congress did not agree on how the south ...

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The Civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States, the War of Rebellion or the War for Southern Independence. ... This war had brought freedom to 4 million black slaves. ... The period from 1820-1860 is known as a divisive, tensed era in American History. Some events have been significant in causing the War Between the States are 1. ... Once the South had opened fire in Fort Sumter the civil war had begun. ...

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Sharecropping appeared in the United States shortly after the Civil War had ended. ... The government knew that the recovery period after the civil war would not be quick, and by 1933 the South was in a state of chaos with prices for farm products being at an all-time low, and the cost of living was steadily increasing. ... Still the idea of racial integration to achieve common goals helped set the stage for the civil rights era. ... This pre civil rights era set the stage for the war on racism and segregation and shows how no matter what the color your skin was that people can come together r...

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Reconstruction was the time period after the Civil War. ... Both have their contributions to the failure of this historical Era. The North mostly caused the end of the Reconstruction, but both North and South made mistakes eventually leading to the end of Reconstruction, twelve years after the end of the Civil War. ...

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The Civil war rages, the War between the States has become known as the bloodiest war ever fought. The Civil War divided the United States between its Northern and Southern states. ... The start of the war began with the firing on Ft. ... Although there has not been agreement on the major causes of the War, this essay will explore possible immediate causes and long term causes of the War. ... The War was the beginning and ending of a way of life for all, and the beginning of an expansion era of the United States....

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With the conclusion of the Civil War after the battle of Appomattox Court house, a new era had dawned. ... Cities such as Charleston were prosperous before the war, but afterwards they were in ruins. ... The Reconstruction Era did not help these circumstances efficiently at all. ... If President Lincoln did not get assassinated, it is possible that the Reconstruction Era would have had better results. Nonetheless, the road to recovery was a long one until the Reconstruction Era's end....

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(T501) Slavery was the main issue for why the war started. Lincoln acknowledged this fact only towards the end of the war. But the question is if slavery really ended when the war ended? ... (L) The war had almost all kinds of races participating in it. ... Though life will be hard during the reconstruction era, but at the end, African Americans would come out independent and stable. ...

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After the civil war ended the differences between ex-confederates and Republicans were at an unstable high. ... Reconstruction of the south was now going to be based on what the north wanted, since they had won the war. ... The era of reconstruction saw the largest struggle between Congress and the chief executive in the nation's history. ... Section three of the amendment denied any federal office to those who had taken an oath before the war and then supported the Confederacy. ... For the many problems that arose during specifically the early years of the reconstruction era, the so...

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The war left far reaching consequences, and although the Unionists won the war and the country remained intact, it left a mark that didn't wash for the years to come. After the devastating war there were two major problems facing the re-united country, the reconstruction of the south which was torn apart by the war and the emancipation of the slaves. ... Perman examines the historical accounts and the literature produced in the 1950s and 60s about the controversial era of Reconstruction. This is a short synthesis of modern historical interpretation of the Reconstruction era and the varyi...

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However there are certain wars that stick out as defining who we are as a people. ... However, one war stands out above the rest for the United States, the Civil War. ... The Civil war was like all civil wars was fought between two factions residing a country, for this war it was the United States and the players were the Northern Union and the Southern Confederacy. ... There was no way that the South could have won the war and there was no way that the North could lose the war. ... They knew that it was not going to be possible to take on the best militaries of the era in a direct head on scu...

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Southerner's spirits had been broken by the war, and the continuing issue of racism was still present. ... The Freedmen's Bureau was the most important institution during the Reconstruction era. ... The black man remained as much of a slave as before the war: uneducated and landless. ... In the Compromise of 1877, Republicans agreed to take away troops from the South, which ended the era of Reconstruction. ... Reconstruction is referred to by many historians as "The Tragic Era" or "The Age of Hate" because of the general mood that the nation felt as a result of a devastating war a...

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In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," we are shown a glimpse of this transition in a town called Jefferson and through the character of Miss Emily Grierson, a survivor of the Old South who serves as an emblem of the traditions and ways of life in the past while representing it's evil and romanticizing it in the post Civil War era. ... Although the end of the Civil War in 1865 brought about the end of slavery, Miss Emily was one of the few, if not the only, citizen to have a servant. ... Closely connected, former mayor of Jefferson, Colonel Sartoris, represents the gentleness of ...

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The country was divided in many aspects of life during the early to mid-1800s (pre-civil war era). ... A war was looming. Not a war with a simple goal, but a war to achieve equality, preserve a nation, and create a United States of America. ... There were many attempt to compromise to avoid a war, but these compromises only delayed for the looming war. ... Through this war, the United States became one step closer to abolishing sectionalism, and ultimately achieving unity....

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The Era of Reconstruction following the Civil War was a period marked by an intense struggle to restore a worn-out and devastated society. ... After the war, the South was left in a state of complete turmoil. ... Southern industry was also badly hurt, as assets needed to support loans were lost in the war. ... The radical Republican movement died out, amnesty was frivolously granted to former Confederates, and the North's gradual loss of interest in Southern matters contributed to a flawed era. ... Tilden, "We have just emerged from one civil war, and it will not do to engage in another c...

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However, within the combined efforts of The Great Migration of the post war era, the work of organizations on the national level, as well as the effort of everyday African-Americans, an overall push from segregation to civil rights resulted. ... Much of the desire to flee the South and to resist segregation legally and politically resulted from the experience of African-American soldiers in World War I. ... Similar patterns occurred after World War II, when over a million and a half African Americans left the South. ... African-Americans desperately needed organizations, such as the NA...

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After the Civil War, white southerners felt threatened by the political power wielded by newly freed Blacks. Radical Reconstruction only built upon this fear, and according to many historians the fear soon led to the emergence of a new form of absolute racism under the guise of the Reconstruction era Democratic Party. ... Not all Reconstruction era southern Democrats were racist, but the stated Democratic Party platform in just about every southern state included the goal of establishing Black Codes to limit Black suffrage. ... Andrew Johnson, the leader of the post-Civil War Democratic Party,...

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With the end of the Civil War our nation faced a new way of life. ... These conflicts and the beginning of World Trade, the United States and its rise in power resulted in a World War. ... Our participation in the war changed everything for the United States. ... By 1920 a great new era emerged for many, yet the agriculture industry was still suffering. ... These groups were essentially left out of the new era in more ways than one. ...

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