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. ...
The specific steps will take to change American - the steps I will fight for in the early days of a Kerry Presidency- - John Kerry As a part of this action plan, Kerry has vowed to: create a new National Education Trust Fund, form a New Era of National Services, end the "Era of Ashcroft", repeal Bush's assault on the environment and make U.S. energy independent, rejoin the Community of Nations, make health care affordable, reward companies that create jobs instead of phony corporate profit, create a middle-class economy and end the privileged class economy, cut the deficit in half in f...
Madison helped strengthen the armed forces, and defeated the British in the War of 1812 for the reaffirming of independence in America. In 1816 James Monroe was elected President and led the U.S. through "The Era of Good Feeling" which Democrats served with little opposition. ... He led the country through World War 1, fought for the League of Nations, established the Federal Reserve Board, and passed the first child and labor welfare laws. ...
His election marked an end of a political era dominated by the planter aristocracy of Virginia and the commercial aristocracy of New England. ... Prior to his presidency, Jackson was very active in war and politics. ... The Black Hawk War of 1832 and the Seminole War that was renewed in 1835 represented the last efforts of the eastern Native Americans to retain their ancestral lands. ... When this war between Biddle and Jackson was over, Jackson had won his greatest political victory, and the Second Bank of the United States passed out of existence when its charter expired in 1836. ...
The fifty years period between the war of 1812 and the Civil War is called the Jacksonian Age. ... He led troops against them in both the Creek War and the First Seminole War and during his first administration the Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830. ... Although his presidency was described as an "era of good feelings" and he was said to have paid off the national debt, he was using the presidency for his own gain. ...
The fight in the 1833-34 session of Congress was fierce, but the Jacksonians held firm, and Jackson won the bank war. ... Many of them were replaced not for political reasons, but because they had misused government funds or were corrupt.1 (p.240) Andrew Jackson's presidency was known as the era of the common man. ...
The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American astronauts landing on the moon, the Arms Race with Russia, the Civil Rights Movement, the assignation of Martin Luther King, Jr., and on and on. ... Ill just touch up on Martin Luther King's historic moments because to speak on him would be the entire paper and I would like to cover multiple monumental moments of this era. ...
