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- During Reconstruction, the Congressmen who wanted to punish the South for starting the Civil War were: Southern Redeemers. Northern Democrats. Radical Democrats. Radical Republicans.
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- As could be expected, the peaceful end of slavery in the CSA prompted a racist backlash over concern of uppity blacks that led to the racist Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina to be chosen as the eighth president of the Confederate States of America, and the first from the Palmetto State.
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Viola Gregg Liuzzo Biography Synopsis. Viola Gregg Liuzzo traveled to Alabama in March 1965 to help the Southern Christian Leadership Conference—led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.—with its efforts to register African-American voters in Selma. Not long after her arrival, she was murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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The sad ends of the Scottsboro Boys: Their lives in brief biographies The sad ends of the Scottsboro Boys: Their lives in brief biographies. Members of the Alabama National Guard escort the Scottsboro Boys into the Morgan County Courthouse in this 1933 photo. In 1931, Alabama wanted to execute the black Scottsboro Boys because two white women claimed they were gang raped. Now, state officials are trying to exonerate them and recognize them as victims of injustice in the segregated South.
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- In Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45 (1932) the United States Supreme Court reversed the convictions of nine young ignorant and illiterate black men for allegedly raping two white women on a freight train near Scottsboro, Alabama.
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- This was the case in 1968, with Alabama governor george wallace and his American Independent Party. Wallace was a vocal opponent of Civil Rights. His position on Segregation and States' Rights and his bold personality were the sum total of the party.
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American Civil War Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction. Abraham Lincoln wanted to be lenient to the South and make it easy for southern states to rejoin the Union. He said that any southerner who took an oath to the Union would be given a pardon.
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- After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority.
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- Lincolns assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control Reconstruction. They divided the South into military districts, withholding statehood from some former Confederate states until 1870.
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- Southerners refused to support Adams’sbid for a second term: most were offendedthat he supported the land rights of Indi-ans and blamed him for the new tariff.2. Adams’s primary weakness was his in-creasingly out-of-date political style; forexample, he felt that the country shouldask for his services.3.
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35. Reconstruction The period of Presidential Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1867. Andrew Johnson, as Lincoln's successor, proposed a very lenient policy toward the South. He pardoned most Southern whites, appointed provisional governors and outlined steps for the creation of new state governments.
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- Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South for the war and to have black ex-slaves given full citizenship as whites had. Johnson, being a Southener himself, did not care f…or this type of plan in reconstructing the south.
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- Radical Republicans’ Plan – decided to appoint military governors, demanded the abolition of slavery, denied suffrage and political office to former Confederate leaders, promoted the Wade-Davis Bill, view the South as conquered enemies, and wanted majority of Southern males to take an oath of allegiance.
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- After the civil war, the Federal government went to many lengths to try and help freedmen in former slave states. These actions were dubbed reconstruction. But these expansions were quickly terminated after Rutherford B. Hayes was elected in 1876. The South had started to limit the rights of blacks within the boundaries that the 13th,…
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Andrew Jackson and Abolition Andrew Jackson used veto power more than all previous presidents combined (12x) to threaten & control Congress. Southerns increasingly opposed to additional tariffs(1816, 1824, 1828). VP J.C. Calhoun(SC) wrote SC Exposition & Protests. Senate Debate: Hayne v. D. Webster.
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Chapter 6 Test Explain the connections between the 1876 election for governor of South Carolina and the president of the United States, the Compromise of 1877, and the end of Reconstruction. SC determines a compromise. The compromise have the state to Wade hampton III and the democrats. Declared Hayes the winner in exchange for a total withdrawal of federal troops from the south. The compromise ended reconstruction and gave the democrats free reign to pursue their political and social goals of restoring white supremacy to the old south.
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- Resource Bank Contents. South Carolina, September 9, 1739: A band of slaves march down the road, carrying banners that proclaim Liberty!. They shout out the same word. Led by an Angolan named Jemmy, the men and women continue to walk south, recruiting more slaves along the way. By the time they stop to rest for the night, their numbers will have approached one hundred. What exactly triggered the Stono Rebellion is not clear.
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- These developments, and especially the 1837 murder of abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy, led many northerners, fearful for their own civil liberties, to vote for antislavery politicians and brought important converts such as Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith, and Edmund Quincy to the cause.
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-   . What did the Southern states threaten they would do if Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election? Pennsylvania was not a good state for the Underground Railroad to run through because it was a racist state. How was Governor Curtin helpful to the Union's war effort? What were the most futile orders given at Gettysburg? Confederate troops ...
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35b. Radical Reconstruction They also believed that the Confederate leaders should be punished for their roles in the Civil War. Leaders like Pennsylvania Representative Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner vigorously opposed Andrew Johnson's lenient policies. A great political battle was about to unfold.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal Martin Luther King, Jr. Mumia Abu-Jamal, originally Wesley Cook (born April 24, 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American journalist and political activist sentenced to death and then to life in prison for the 1981 murder of a police officer, Daniel Faulkner, in Philadelphia. Wesley Cook established his status as a political activist while still a teenager.
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- Andrew Johnson. Johnson decides not to treat the south as a conquered region, included amnesty for most confederates and quick acceptance of states back into the Union, freed slaves got little protection: no guaranteed citizenship or the right to vote.   .ndrew Johnson. The Tenure of Office Act made it illegal to remove a cabinet member without Senate approval: Johnson fired his secretary of war who had been Lincoln's and congress drafted articles of impeachment.
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Reconstruction (1865â1877) The Black Codes. Despite the efforts of Radical Republicans in Congress, the white elite in the South did everything it could to prevent blacks from gaining civic power. In reaction to the Civil Rights Act of 1866, every southern legislature passed laws to restrict opportunities for blacks.
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- Republicans vowed, among other promises, to remove federal troops from Southern states. Democrats promised to accept Hayes and treat blacks fairly. Under the Compromise of 1877, Hayes became president, the last federal troops left the South, and the era of Reconstruction ended.
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- The Nullification Crisis happened during the Jacksonion Era. When president Andrew Jackson passed the Tariff of 1828 (taxes on trade that benefited the North, but reduced sale … s for the South), South Carolina excercised their constitutional right, by declaring the Tariff was null and void.
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- One such law forced debtors to work the land until their debts were paid. By the fall of 1876, Democrats had returned to power in all Southern states except South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. The presidential election that year ended in a dispute over the electoral votes of these three states.