We can't help but ask: was his approach to the war a symbiotic expression, based on his personal approach to the idiosyncratic tragedies of his own life? ... Although the Proclamation did not free all slaves in the nation "indeed, no slaves outside of the Confederacy were affected by the Proclamation "it was an important symbolic gesture that identified the Union with freedom and the death of slavery. ... A statement of presidential intent to free the nation's slaves would clear the ideological waters and proclaim in no uncertain terms Lincoln's determination that the...

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Lincoln realized this and stated that this nation was "dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal." ... After the war was over the American people knew what it felt like to finally be free. While they still remained free, Americans began to treat other races and cultures as the British had treated them. ... Perhaps the greatest irony is the fact that the southern states now wanted to be free, and separate from the northern states. ... These charges were proven by the numerous times Lincoln went against what the constitution stated to suit his own agenda. ...

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He did not see a free black man, working along his father as an equal; he was brought up thinking that blacks were supposed to be less respected than whites like him. ... The document discussed the need and want for owning property, elections and voters, and also "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion- (The Virginia 156). ... That we will never know. ... Without the events that occurred in the past, whether they were right or wrong, we as a country would never be where we are today. So before anyone calls our founding fathers hypocrites again, maybe they should take a...

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Slavery itself noticeably stretched its finger into the Mid-Atlantic's free states in the post-war ages. ... So did the increasing practice of snatching free African Americans from the North into Southern oppression. ... "Fellow citizens," he wailed, "these outrages were committed upon a family of free people in Philadelphia, and on the Sabbath day" (Coffin). ... Slavery appeared less essential and more intimidating to neighboring Free states in Missouri than in the South. Additionally, as John Craig Hammond had presented, before the War of 1812 countless Northerners w...

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The criteria by which we measure "success" are vital, different people hold different opinions against the Reconstruction, and that is why the debates are still going on these days. ... Both Lincoln and Johnson's plan were considered as lenient plan, and protested by the Congress. ... Before the reconstruction, more than 90 percent of freed slaves were illiterate. ... Schools were opened for everyone regardless of their literacy level. ... Schools were built later in the Reconstruction period and all slaves had equal opportunities to receive education. ...

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The period in American history which we now refer to Reconstruction began in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln first outlined his Reconstruction program, but its inevitable end and lack of success had been predetermined more than two centuries before, with the arrival of the first Europeans and their slaves in North America. ... After the Civil War, white southerners felt threatened by the political power wielded by newly freed Blacks. ... The Black Codes were undeniably racist. ... An editor of an Alabama newspaper maintained, "We must render this either a white man's government, or convert...

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In his speech, which he delivered in Lancaster County in September 6, 1865, Thaddeus Stevens called the Confederacy "unjust and treasonable " and he said "we hold it to be the duty of the Government to inflict condign punishment on the rebel belligerents, and so weaken their hands that they can never again endanger the Union"(American Horizons Volume II: 161). ... Stevens also advocated his Reconstruction plan in his speech, which he believed that the former lands of plantation owners should be divided and sold to the newly freed-men in order to achieve the real purpose of Reconstruction. Ev...

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There were several events that directly or indirectly stirred up the indignation that motivated the Movement, and the aftermath was quite significant to America, as we know it today. ... The end of the Civil War, which brought about these Amendments, was the legal end to slavery in the United States, but it would be a long and difficult battle before those rights became a social custom in America. Now, hostile whites, who did not know how to treat blacks as equal human beings, surrounded, and still held authority over, freed African Americans in the South. ... Whites enjoyed comfortable and...

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The states were being asked to place all of their trust into one central government. ... On February 11, 1790, Quaker protesters called for an end of slavery before Congress. ... Second, at this point in history, no biracial society existed; therefore, a place for the black population to live once freed, was needed. ... However, Washington's words of wisdom were not evident within his second term. ... In fact, the complete opposite has been built into our national identity: we have become entangled in every world affair possible. ...

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