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The westward expansion using the railroad would be considered as progress because it allowed the journey from the East to West to go from 6 months, to a week, which is a significant decrease. Although I can't say for sure, it's probably a lot safer to ride the train than to ride a carriage, just because of the fact that it's a train. However, it's also decline because millions of buffalo were killed, and once again the Native Americans were displaced from their homes.

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The transcontinental railroad was human progress at it's finest.

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The progression was having transportation become more accessible and faster. The downside was the effect it had on Native people in those specific areas

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It was a time where during the process of creating a twin for a new land, the pioneers or farmers have to require many transportation in order to send off many resources for the own.However it can have a lot of risk, including where people can taken that for greed or fear to sacrifice for the people in town.

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After the construction of the transcontinental railroad-white settlers had a better  opportunity to relocate to the west coast. Many Native American tribes were dramatically affected and treated horribly during and as a result of the railroads construction.

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the acceleration of technology is an example of progress because a 6 month cross country trip by wagon could now be completed in a single week. This also shows decline because of how it affected Native American tribes already settled in these areas.

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It was considered because it changed the way people transported. Now, transportation was easier than before, and people can travel across the country in a shorter amount of time and in an easier way. All of this helped expand the country. A downfall was that it invaded Native American land.

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After the railroad was completed, transportation became more accessible. Not only that but it was a lot faster and easier as well.

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It was considered progress in that the railroad allowed for goods to be transported more efficiently. It was a decline because it was it essentially invaded Native American land.

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The transcontinental railroad was an advancement in transportation and technology. The railroads allowed for goods to be transferred much more effectively. Which increased the economy. A progression would be the outside factors such as the terrain causing a

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It was an example of progress for many Americans because it was a great and easier change of transportation. Although, this was also a decline because it was another example of the mistreatment of Native Americans.

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The transcontinental railroad was a big example of progress during this time period. Traveling became so much more efficient for people to get places faster. Land also became more accessible which is another example of progress. An example of decline would be that this railroad allowed people to settle in and take native land. Along with this the buffalo which were relied on as a food source were dying.

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The construction of the Pacific Railroad meant great progress for convenient, quick, and accessible travel. Of course, this marks the beginning of what would eventually become a railroad monopoly. Additionally, westward expansion-which was the forceful takeover of land and displacement of the indigenous peoples-was a primary motivator for its construction.

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There are benefits and decline when the Transcontinental railroad construction. For example, the structure of the Transcontinental railroad has left land and made the land more profitable. A; though, American Natives can argue that they steal the landform them and almost kill off their buffalo.

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It would be considered progress in terms of making land more available and profitable for many more Americans. Expanding on agriculture, as well as further development in industrialization. Decline however would be the genocide and near-mass extinction on Wild Buffalo, invasion and interference of Indigenous peoples territory, and the exploitation and racism put against early Asian Americans.

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During the construction of the Transcontinental railroad, there were examples of both benefits as well as decline. One example of a benefit was that due to its completion, the railroad allowed for extremely fast transportation, both in terms of people as well as goods. What had once been a 6 month journey had soon become only 7 days, and so the railroad was a prime example of industrilization doing good. However, an example of decline was the loss of buffalo as well as pushing Natives further away from their land. Many tribes depended on the animal to survive, for food, shelter, and clothing. unfortunately, the white settlers killed up to millions of them, resulting in Native Americans struggling to get by. The creation of the rail road also scared other animals away and took up their space, so basically, the railroad caused a massive disruption in their way of life.

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Reconstruction was an Era that took place after the civil war, and in that time, America grew as a nation and worsened as a nation. Some were for rejoining the union, some were against it. However, they said that they would only join if they adopted the Fourteenth Amendment. That states that blacks have guaranteed civil rights and that they were to reduce, "congressional representation in states where the ex-slave was denied a vote." Obviously, many people were against this and rejected it.

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After decades of tension between the North and South, the Civil War erupted as a result of disputes over slaves in the Western territories. The South claimed that the Western territories should allow slaves, while the North claimed slaves should not be exploited in the newly acquired territories. When Lincoln was elected president, many Southern states sought individual sovereignty, and made efforts to di

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Reconstruction occurred as an after math of the civil war. The North and South were completely divided and did not see eye to eye on much regarding to slavery.

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The American Civil War was the North and South’s unity and the start of reconstruction.

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Reconstruction occurred as an affect of the civil war. This was a time of huge divide in our country between the North and the South because of their differences in ideas on how to handle all these newly freed people. Tensions were already high after the North winning the war and the rise of many white supremacists groups all over the country.

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Reconstruction took place after the civil war in 1860. This was a time of change and disagreements between northern and southern states. Although slavery was abolished many southern states did not agree with the 14th amendment that granted civil rights to African Americans.

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The American Civil War had united the North and the South stats originally reconstruction was attended to be a positive change.

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Even thou that the civil war helped free slavery, it still not grantee due with some new unexpected circumstances.Still white supremacy were still a thing during that time and threatening black people as if now they are gaining control but instead it was white people who are being hypocritical and unfair.Such terms were rejected by ten of the eleven high-spirited Southern states. The Republicans in Congress thereupon passed the drastic military reconstruction acts of 1867, under which black suffrage was forced upon the whole white South. The Congress also came within a hairsbreadth, in 1868, of removing the obstructive President Johnson by impeachment. Meanwhile the partly black Southern legislatures, despite grievous excesses, passed stacks of long-overdue social and economics legislation. The whites struck back through secret terrorist organizations, and ultimately secured control of their state governments by fraud, fright,
and force.

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The Civil War was caused by the difference of the free and slave states over the control of the national government. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 bringing white supremacist, Andrew Johnson into office. The Reconstruction of America began after the Civil War (1865) and ended in 1877. It was a process of addressing inequality due to slavery, yet the South limited black peoples' rights through terrorist organizations, laws, and violence. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were added to the Constitution to ensure the equality for emancipated enslaved people.

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The Reconstruction was a time period in America consisting of many leaders, goals and accomplishments. Though, like all things in life, it did come to an end, the resulting outcome has been labeled both a success and a failure.

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Despite putting an end to slavery in the south after the North had won the Civil War the south denied the 14th amendment so that ex-slaves couldn't have the right to vote.

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The “Ordeals of Reconstruction” informs us that politics played a role in how the country reacted after the Civil War. Southern Democrats would exert power to dictate how civil rights would be kept from former slaves.

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The American Civil War was an eruption of already rising tensions between Northern states and Southern states. As common knowledge goes, the end of the war saw the abolition of slavery in the United States. Although still bitter from their loss, the Southern Confederacy joined back with the rest of the country. Three amendments were passed for the Constitution in order to halt slavery in the country. Reconstruction took a while in order to get back into some form of normalcy. However, after slavery had hitched out of America, segregation flooded in. The Southern states' economy relied heavily on slave labor on large plantations, and so with the loss of hands, their economy began to struggle, making their reconstruction period even more difficult. Many white southerners began to form organizations to "battle" the abolition of slavery, and to terrorize the newly-freed African Americans.

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Following shortly after the Civil War, though slavery had been abolished, the fight for rights for African Americans continued to be a struggle. The Reconstruction was both good and bad, but under President Johnson, issues in terms of rights for black Americans were made between the North and South. Southern states refused to accept the 14th amendment, which would allow civil rights to African Americans. However, despite their efforts, social and economic legislations were passed for them to allow for their rights. As a result, terrorist organizations were started by Southern whites to protest against this. One of the main being the Ku Klux Klan. The Reconstruction fought to bring good, but resulted in bad at the same time.

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Reconstruction was meant to be a time of positive change.  Even though slavery was abolished there were many who did not agree with this.    Southern states did not agree with the ratification the the 14th amendment which would guarantee civil rights to the blacks while reducing congressional representation in states where the ex-slave was denied a vote. African Americans were denied civil rights by southern states. Reconstruction caused white supremacy to rise such as the KKK which used fraud, fright, and force against their state governments.

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After the American Civil War, the North and South were sucessfully united. Many changes of American life was changed, especially in the South as Slavery was now abolished. Slavery for some time was seen as inhumane and unconsititutional in the North, with Slavery abolished many Southerners were not happy as a large percentage of the Southern economy was at risk. This started a new age of Reconstuction, the start of now free slaves trying to fit into the rest of American society.

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After the civil war, tension and traditionalism still lingered in the south. As federal legislation practiced civil rights local government would respond with racist legislation and terror groups would plague the south. These terror groups would be allowed to thrive in america as traditionalists tried to reinstate racism.

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The battle for love and equality will forever be difficult. Still, to this day racism runs through the blood of society. Reconstruction after the civil war was the start of a battle for power between the Northern and Southern states, and white and black Americans. Black Americans legally weren't slaves anymore, so they were seen as nothing. Segregation started to grow, the southern states refused the idea of being on the same plane as slaves, and the laws just made them even angrier. Creating the K.K.K, a way they can publicly express their hate towards the new changes.

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After decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion, the Civil War in the United States erupted. The secession of several southern states was spurred by the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, ultimately ending in Confederate surrender in 1865. Mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, known as Reconstruction, a drastic economic difference existed between the North and South. In the North, manufacturing and industry was well established, and agriculture was mostly limited to small-scale farms, while the South’s economy was disrupted once the 13th amendment eradicated systems of large-scale farming that depended on the labor of Black enslaved people. In an effort to stitch back their racist economy and under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866, southern state legislatures passed restrictive “Black Codes” to control the labor and behavior of former enslaved people and other African Americans. Congressional republicans passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867 in which newly enfranchised Black people gained a voice in government for the first time in American history (Black suffrage), winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress. In less than a decade, however, reactionary forces (Ku Klux Klan) would reverse the changes fought so graciously by Radical Reconstruction in a violent backlash that restored white supremacy in the South.

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Reconstruction took place after the civil war in 1860 America. During this time America begins to work on improving and uniting the south back. Enslavement was abolished and black men were given citizen ship and right to vote. Though black men were freed from slavery they were still restricted by racism and segregation

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After the Civil War, the US had went through a major era of change and Reconstruction, which had allowed and brought in better changes, making democracy more prevalent than ever, but although this was a great era of reform of change, some still believed in a pre-Civil War life, mainly the South. And although Black Americans were able to finally go to school and even vote, woman's suffrage still wasn't being supported, which makes the power of democracy a decline at that space. Better changes that were introduced were the freedom of slaves/ex-slaves, as well as giving black men the power to vote, and give black citizens the chance to gain an education.

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The period following the Civil War was a time of massive change. Reconstruction helped abolish slavery but there were people who did not agree with this. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed to grant African Americans rights and equality. White southerners did not agree with this so they struck back by forming secret organizations to terrorize African Americans.

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The 1860s were a period of  great change and reconstruction, but also a time of further division and setbacks to democracy. Following the civil war and abolishment of slavery, there were efforts made to grant more rights to black Americans. This was a huge step forward in democracy, however a lot of white southerners turned to violence in response to this and began terrorizing black citizens. Secret organizations like

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The era of Reconstruction was a time period of drastic change in America, change that made America both more and less democratic. After the abolishment of slavery, one of the biggest obstacles was integrating the black population into society as American citizens. The passing of the 14th and 15th amendment helped with this transition greatly as it granted African Americans rights that they had been denied and they were finally recognized as citizens. However, these changes were anything but smooth. White Southerners revolted against these new laws and turned to violence and terrorism in an attempt to stop black citizens from exercising these new rights. Such violence led to secret organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and new laws that prevented African Americans from freely practicing the new rights that they had been granted.

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After the Civil War, conflict over the humanity of all Americans lived on. Slavery was abolished, but the recently freed still found themselves surrounded by people who hated their very existence and their rights were still unprotected. This led to laws passed by Republicans in Congress that would protect African Americans' rights. At the same time, organizations like the KKK were formed to stall the efforts of the government through violence and fear. There was even conflict within the government. After Linlcoln's death, President Johnson became the president. Johnson had very different views on racial equality than Lincoln and he tried to work against the congressional Republicans. It's often argued whether this time between The Civil War and WW1 was a time of progress or a time of decline in the US. On one hand, slavery had been abolished and many African Americans even became government officials. On the other hand, the resistance to black people's rights formed organizations and manifestations of white supremacy that committed horrible crimes and many former slaves found themselves in situations not much better than they had previously experienced. They couldn't find work and their lives were threatened from day to day.

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The period following the Civil War, also known as "Reconstruction", was one of both progress and decline in American history. After the abolition of slavery, the push for racial equality among both African Americans and white allies in the North led congress to pass acts granting new rights to Black Americans, such as the citizenship rights and voting rights in the 14th ad 15th amendments. However, in an attempt to keep control over the government and economy, Southern white supremacists turned to violence and established terror organizations such as the Klu Klux Klan. Congress also passed laws that limited the rights of formerly enslaved people, such as the implementation of poll taxes and the Grandfather Clause. Reconstruction was also a period of government corruption and rapidly advancing capitalism, causing turmoil and unrest among American society.

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we may know a thing or 2 about the post Civil War life, which was the Reconstruction Period. oddly enough, it was known as a rise and a downfall in U.S. history. since this was after slavery was condemned, black Americans were slowly gaining freedom/rights. for example, they would gain U.S. citizenships and voting rights, due to the 14th and 15th amendments. all that being said, there were still racists white people in the South, in which they formed a very notorious organization known as the KKK. if we were to put ourselves in the black American perspective, we would think that it was all sunshine and rainbows from here on out, but the KKK was giving it a harder time for them to make that happen.

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From 1865 to 1867, the Era of Reconstruction was a period of time in which a variety of groups of people reacted and responded to the lingering effects of the Civil War. The most prominent theme of Reconstruction was civil rights for Black Americans. The movement had both supporters and antagonizers (such as the Ku Klux Klan formed in the south). Although amendments were being passed and laws were being formed to technically support Black Americans, the lingering presence of racism and support for slavery was enough to almost entirely negate a true sense of democracy and confirm the large extent to which there was conflict in America.

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The period of time after the Civil war was a period of time where the US tried to fix its existing problems such as the huge racial divide between white people and African Americans, slavery, the economy, from after the war. Reconstruction was a process in which we can see clear examples of decline in a push towards a more democratic society and also examples of progress in a push towards a more democratic society. After slavery had been abolished, African Americans were seeing a new light. 3 different amendments were written. The first amendment abolished slavery, the 14th grating African American's the right to be a citizen if they were born in the US, and the 15th granting African American Men the right to vote. Although all of these things were major major steps towards a more democratic society, we can also see clear examples of decline because the problem still exists. As these rights were slowly given to African Americans, southerners and others that were upset about this decided to take matters into their own hands. By starting organizations like the Klu Klux Klan. Which was a group of confederate soldiers who were angry about losing the Civil War and the rights being given to African Americans. So they decided to harass, kill, and terrorize African Americans. This was the start of this huge racial divide between white and black people.