Three goals of radical republicans were they wanted to prevent the leaders of the confederacy from returning to power after the war, they wanted the republican party to become a formidable institution in the south, and they wanted the federal government to help African Americans achieve political equality by guaranteeing their rights to vote in the south. ... The 14th Amendment was proposed in 1866 and ratified in 1868, guaranteeing citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States (except Native Americans), and granting them federal civil rights. ... Hayes's removal of ...

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"Perspectives of the same event" People are very different and look at things very differently. Each perspective is reflected differently in each of these pieces of literature, even though they are all about the same event. The pieces of literature I chose are two ...

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After reading All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies, by Elizabeth D. Leonard, I've come to one conclusion; many people overlook the role of women in war. It is said even by women that the men go off to fight, and the women stay home and wait. They did something to help their c...

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There are many cliches about having the best of both worlds but what exactly does that mean. Some people are born into different worlds and many times they are not truly accepted into either. In the historical biography, Halfbreed, David Halaas and Andrew Masich tell the story of George Bent. Georg...

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""Men with wives and sisters filled their letters with references to protecting "the fair daughters of my own native state from Yankee outrage and atrocity."" (20). ... It was true that they could have simply returned to the northern nation and leave the South to do the same. ...

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He then returned home to see his wife for most of the length of the suspension. ... This incident is easily referred to as a slaughter, which is basically what happened to the Native Americans that day. ...

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For Sherman, and the soldiers who didn't return home, there was the matter of Indian troubles in the West to occupy their desire for adventure. If Sherman were simply blood-thirsty during his "March to the Sea", he was a homicidal maniac when dealing with Native Americans. ...

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In the initial years of America, the country faced many diverse challenges, of establishing new colonies, resistance from native Indians, Mexico Spanish wars and inter-state conflicts. ... The Reconstruction was a transitional period of the United States; it marked the Return of the South to the Union and the rebuilding of the country. ...

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