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Reconstruction In The South - Research Paper

Reconstruction In The South

This essay will describe the events that occurred following the Civil
War in a period known as Reconstruction. In the South, during this period of
time many people suffered from the great amount of property damage done to such
things as farms, factories, railroads and several other things that citizens
depended on to keep their economy strong. Some of these economic hardships
included destruction of the credit system and worthless Confederate money.
Though statistics in the South were vague the historian E.B. Long, a careful
student of war strengths suggests “perhaps 750,000 individuals would be
reasonably a close” as an estimate of Southern enrollments in the armies and
navy.

In the ...

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the voters in the 1860 presidential
election had signed oaths of loyalty to the Union. Under this plan new
governments were formed in Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas but the Congress
refused to recognize them. Republicans in Congress did not want a quick
restoration, for the reason that it would bring Democratic representatives and
senators to Washington, and in 1864 Congress passed the Wade-Davis
Reconstruction Bill. This bill would have delayed the process of rejoining the
Union until 50 percent of the people took an oath of loyalty but Lincoln pocket
vetoed the bill. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated just as the South surrendered
in April 1865, and then Andrew Johnson inherited the problem of Reconstruction.
Johnson supported Lincoln's plan after taking office.

Enough Confederates signed these oaths to enable the immediate creation
of new governments. Johnson required that the new states ratify the 13th
Amendment freeing the slaves, abolish slavery in their own ...

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Added: 11/27/2007 04:57:14 AM
Category: American History
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 950
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