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After slavery was abolished, former slaves demanded education, and they got it. Schools for freed people were opened, and they struggled to contain the amount of Black people inside. These schools were self-sustaining, and the staff were working hard to educate the large population of previously uneducated people. The Bureau of Refugees was also created, which helped fund these schools. The schools also received a lot of help from the freed slaves themselves. Some gave the schools books, and supplies, while others gave donations. Teachers came from the North to help, and educated Black people from the South came to help too. It was a process that required everyone involved, and was a great success.

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The main "contract" after the civil war was Sharecropping, share cropping was when a person shared a portion of property on a farm, they were responsible for tending the crops, the only catch was they would have to give 50% to the shareholder, whoever owned the farm. There was kind of a ladder system you could move up, the way to move up was by gathering a great quantity of money and equipment. You would go from a hapless sharecropper to a share tenant and so on... this did not end the way that it was planned, it ended up with people losing there crops due to conditions they couldn't control. This really came into effect during the great depression, everything caved in and collapsed from the inside out.

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Reconstruction created a lot of racial tension in the South, and violence was breaking out. While the majority of the Northern population was content with the new amendments, many people in the South were not happy. They still didn't see Black people as equals, and many white supremacist groups were formed. These groups would terrorize Black people, in order to make a point. They wanted all Black people to be slaves again, and they were willing to kidnap, torture, and kill to get their way.

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The period known as reconstruction was from about 1863-1877 following the civil war. The compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between the democrats (winning north) and republicans (loser south). The democrats were to remove their troops from the south and the majority of the republican southern states were to become democratic again. This settles some of the political issues but there were still lots of social ones.

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Politicians around this time were having a field day, and not in a good way, most of the situation was back and forth between giving black Americans rights and at the same time trying to limit them as much as they can, they ended up giving black Americans citizenship and the right to vote, this lasted only a second before people were fighting to take them away again.

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Women's goal during this time was to gain their role as a part of society. Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the Women's Loyal National League in 1863. They petitioned to Congress about the constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. When the thirteenth amendment was passed, the Loyal League saw this as a victory for the abolishment of slavery and to prove they had the ability to speak up and make a change. When congress was discussing freedom and equality, the Loyal League started to see their opportunity. On May 10, 1866, the Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention was held in New York City. They discussed that during a time of reconstruction was the best time to push for equal rights for all. In 1866 the National Women's Rights Convention merged with the American Anti-Slavery Society to form the American Equal Rights Association. The AERA's main beliefs were the abolition of slavery and equal rights for women.

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Gov.t Agencies/Department involved, as well as their goals

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Gov.t Agencies/Department involved, as well as their goals

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President Abraham Lincoln was the main face of the reunification of the United States. In many places of the USA, followers of Lincoln started forming "Lincoln governments." These were small groups of people in the South who took an oath of allegiance. The Lincoln governments were formed in the states that were exempted from the liberating effects of the Emancipation Proclamation.
When the Thirteenth Amendment was passed, the amendment abolished slavery through government "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." A second part to this amendment allowed the congress the "power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." These two parts of the amendment got three fourths of the states to approve the amendment by the end of the year.

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The reconstruction amendments are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States of America constitution.
The 13th amendment says that no one (except duly convicted peoples) shall be a slave or indentured servant. This provides a loophole because if the judicial system is racist than slavery can be perpetuated.
The 14th amendment protects your general rights as a citizen and re-insures that due process law will be used.
The 15th amendment gives people the right to vote regardless of their race, color, or previous situation of servitude. This did not extend to woman at that time, but it did stop states from controlling who can vote.

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Reconstruction: Caden S. Ben P. Sebastian S. Liam S. Forest P.

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Reconstruction: Caden S. Ben P. Sebastian S. Liam S. Forest P.

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In your Table group, first create own Padlet, add your names. Your task is to create a web of what reconstruction meant.  Different Categories should include positive as well as negative aspects
1.) Reconstruction Amendments
2.) Gov.t Agencies/Department involved, as well as their goals
3.) Non-Government Organizations their goals
4.) Politics
5.) Education
6.) Work Labor Contacts
7.) Reaction to Reconstruction
8.) Conclusion of Reconstruction