President Johnson’s power. Johnson failed to provide the nation with enlightened leadership or deal effectively with Congress. Racism prevented him from responding to black demands for civil rights, and personal inflexibility rendered him unable to compromise with Congress. In June of 1866, the Joint Committee on Reconstruction determined that, by seceding, the southern states had forfeited “all civil and political rights under the Constitution.” The Committee then took some drastic changes, starting

Democrats and Republicans. Hayes experienced the Civil War which gave him the right to appoint issues for the Americans. Hayes was capable of conquering political issues such as putting Reconstruction to an end, managing The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, and implementing Civil Service Reforms. Although a few Americans

The Civil War has just ended and the South had just lost to the North. Because the battle was mainly fought in the Southern territory the South was in a very unpleasant condition. Many homes were destroyed which meant families had no homes, business were wrecked which made many people jobless, a majority of the animals were dying or dead which caused the people to go into starvation. The South was in major need of help from the North to gain back its status. Trying to end slavery was a success

The country was in shambles and needed a plan to heal, so under Abraham Lincoln he began to do just that. He gave the hope of peace and prosperity to the entire nation, under which it would slowly rebuild. Though the Radical Republicans had to take over this project it clearly became a bright spot in American history for the changes made to help freedmen. Throughout the country the Lincoln’s idea of reconstruction had been signal of hope for many of its people, but because of his assassination the

The Reconstruction era was a period in the United States that took place after the Civil War, from approximately 1865 to 1877. During this time, the federal government sought to incorporate both the Confederate states and newly freed black people into American society. This process was marked by a series of political and social changes, including the passing of the Reconstruction Amendments, which abolished slavery, granted citizenship rights, and voting rights to black Americans. Additionally, the

democrats. It was 8 to 7, they rejected the democrats claims and accepted all of Haye' electoral votes. Hayes ended up with 185 electoral votes and Tilden with 184. This is where the Compromise of 1877 came in. The Compromise of 1877 was the deal that finally settled the disputed presidential election of 1876. The Compromise allowed the electoral commission to happen and awarded Hayes to be president over Tilden since he won the electoral votes. In order to do so Hayes would have to end Reconstruction

“What, after all, am I? Am I an American or am I a Negro? Can I be both? Or is it my duty to cease to be a Negro as soon as possible and be an American?” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote this at the end of the 19th century, a time when a certain race was experiencing the worst conditions in America. Labeling this period of time the “Gilded Age”, Mark Twain was correct to point out that, while America seemed to have been displaying the greatest years of improvement and advancement, under that “shining gild”,

disagreed and created an alternative. The New Jersey Plan was the alternative to the Virginia Plan. This plan wanted the articles of confederations to be revised and everyone to have every state have equal representation in congress. There was a compromise between these two plans that have equal representation