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	Reconstruction
		All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
		But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
		The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 13th of June, 1866.
	home.alltel.net /cnfdcwby/Confederate/reconstruction.htm (2697 words)

	Reconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the history of the United States Reconstruction was the period after the American Civil War when the southern states of the Confederacy which had seceded from the United States were reintegrated into the Union.
		Another consequence of Reconstruction was that a number of white Southerners migrated to the border states to escape the effects of the this caused white Southern culture to implant flourish in these states especially in Kentucky (many also moved to Tennessee as the latter state did not Reconstruction despite having seceded).
		Southern states were readmitted by 1870 (Georgia was the last on July 15) and all but 500 Confederate sympathizers pardoned when President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Amnesty Act on May 22 1872.
	www.freeglossary.com /Reconstruction (1345 words)

	Reconstruction: A State Divided
		It was the first state charter to incorporate Lincoln's conciliatory approach and was the leading test case for postwar policy.
		Although voters in Louisiana elected Ménard to the United States House of Representatives in 1868, Congress contested the election and refused to seat him.
		The Colfax Riot was the bloodiest single instance of racial violence in the Reconstruction era in all of the United States.
	lsm.crt.state.la.us /cabildo/cab11.htm (3401 words)

	United States History - The End of Reconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The last quarter of the 19th century saw a profusion of "Jim Crow" laws in Southern states that segregated public schools, forbade or limited fl access to many public facilities, such as parks, restaurants and hotels, and denied most fls the right to vote by imposing poll taxes and arbitrary literacy tests.
		In contrast with the moral clarity and high drama of the Civil War, historians have tended to judge Reconstruction harshly, as a murky period of political conflict, corruption and regression.
		The failure of Reconstruction meant that the struggle of African Americans for equality and freedom was deferred until the 20th century -- when it would become a national, and not a Southern issue.
	countrystudies.us /united-states/history-69.htm (515 words)

	Reconstruction Era Timeline History \| rerl_01_package.xml
		After being named House chairman of a joint congressional committee on Reconstruction, U.S. representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania declares that it is the duty of Congress to supervise Reconstruction and demand tough terms of the former Confederate states, rejecting President Andrew Johnson's authority to define the terms of Reconstruction.
		This legislation guarantees that all persons born in the United States (except for Native Americans) are to be considered U.S. citizens with full protection of "person and property" under the law.
		The states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina are readmitted to the Union under the Reconstruction plan developed by the Republicans in Congress.
	www.bookrags.com /history/reconstruction-era-timeline-rerl-01 (2889 words)

	H102 Lecture 01: Reconstructing the Nation
		Eventually the people of each state elected a governor and a state legislature, and when the legislature of a state ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, the new state government was recognized and the state was admitted back in the Union again.
		But the states that had seceded were not yet fully restored to their former positions within the Union because the Congress had not yet seated their U. Senators and Representatives, who were now coming to Washington to take their places in the federal legislature.
		An adamant abolitionist, Stevens was dissatisfied with the Presidential Reconstruction policies of Andrew Johnson and eventually led the impeachment forces against the president.
	us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/lectures/lecture01.html (1091 words)

	Life After the 13th Amendment
		With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in December 1865, slavery was officially abolished in all areas of the United States.
		The Reconstruction era was under way in the South, the period during which the 11 Confederate states would be gradually reintroduced to the Union.
		Douglass's push for state approval of the amendment caused a breach between him and the woman suffragists, who were upset that the measure did not include voting rights for woman.
	www.history.rochester.edu /class/douglass/part5.html (2880 words)

	Teacher Resources - Feature - American Memory Timeline: Civil War and Reconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1861, the United States faced its greatest crisis to that time.
		Following the 1860 election to the presidency of Republican Abraham Lincoln, 11 southern states eventually seceded from the Federal Union in 1861.
		The problems of reconstructing the Union were just as difficult as fighting the war had been.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html (284 words)

	Reconstruction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reconstruction was a period in United States history, 1863–1877, that resolved the issues of the American Civil War when both the Confederacy and its system of slavery were destroyed.
		The period of Reconstruction addressed the return of the southern states that had seceded, the status of ex-Confederate leaders, but failed to make permanent the attempt to integrate the African-American Freedmen into the legal, political, economic and social system.
		All Southern states were readmitted to the Union by the end of 1870, the last being Georgia, gaining re-admission on July 15, 1870.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reconstruction_era_(United_States) (7911 words)

	Failure of Reconstruction DBQ
		Reconstruction ended in 1877 with the removal of Union troops from Confederate territory.
		The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
		Finally I felt document ten was essential, as the election of 1876 signifies the end of the Reconstruction era, at least with regard to Northern participation.
	www.binghamton.edu /ctah/student/burrell/burrellprint.html (1254 words)

	U.S. History - Reconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This exhibition is part of the Digital History site that contains an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on slavery, United States, Mexican American, and Native American history; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology.
		The text is by Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and renowned expert on Reconstruction, and Olivia Mahoney, Director of Historical Documentation at the Chicago Historical Society.
		Harper’s Weekly portrayed in everyday detail to its readers of 1865-1869 the current events, issues and personalities that were central to Reconstruction and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
	www.besthistorysites.net /USHistory_Reconstruction.shtml (646 words)

	Beaufort, SC Recconstruction Era
		In addition, the Secretary is authorized to conduct a national historic landmark theme study to identify sites and resources in the United States that are significant to the Reconstruction Era.
		The Reconstruction Era is generally considered to be the period between 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, and the withdrawal of Federal troops from the South following the Compromise of 1877 that resolved the contested presidential election of 1876.
		The term "Reconstruction" reflects both the literal rebuilding of the war-ravaged South and the more metaphorical rebuilding of the Union following the divisive and destructive conflict.
	www.nps.gov /legal/testimony/108th/beauf.htm (824 words)

	Amazon.com: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877: Books: Kenneth M. Stampp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These state governments were monuments to misgovernment and corruption, and the entire region (indeed, the entire country) breathed a collective sigh of relief when the white "redeemers" finally forced them out of office.
		While the Reconstruction state governments were often corrupt and incompetent, they were not out of the ordinary for state governments of the time, and the redeemer governments were frequently as bad or worse.
		He deconstructs the notion, all too lazily accepted even today, that Reconstruction was a failed political movement, the only accomplishment of which was pocket-lining by Carpetbaggers from the North.
	www.amazon.com /Era-Reconstruction-1865-1877-Kenneth-Stampp/dp/039470388X (3257 words)

	Reconstruction Timeline
		Entitles all persons born or naturalized in the United States to citizenship and equal protection under the laws of the United States.
		John W. Menard of Louisiana elected to the United States Congress.
		Pinchback, a fl politician, was the first fl to serve as a state governor, although due to white resistance, his tenure is extremely short.
	chnm.gmu.edu /courses/122/recon/chron.html (527 words)

	History of the United States (1865–1918) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article covers the history of the United States from 1865 through 1918, Reconstruction and the Rise of Industrialization.
		The United States began its rise to international power in this period with substantial population and industrial growth domestically, along with a number of imperialist ventures abroad.
		Innovations also occurred in how work was organized, as when Henry Ford developed the moving assembly line and Frederick Winslow Taylor formalized ideas of scientific management.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1865-1918) (7517 words)

	Reconstruction Era Subject Guide LRC@TCC
		Scope: To provide sources for the study of the Reconstruction period in United States history.
		Reconstruction and its Aftermath - The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress
		United States Civil War Center - Links to essays on Reconstruction.
	www.tcc.edu /lrc/guides/recon.htm (182 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter Six: The End of Reconstruction (14/15)
		From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter Six: The End of Reconstruction (14/15)
		As part of the bargaining that resolved the disputed presidential elections that year in favor of Rutherford B.
		Hayes, the Republicans promised to end Radical Reconstruction, thereby leaving most of the South in the hands of the Democratic Party.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/1994/ch6_p14.htm (538 words)

	NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE HOSTS SIXTH ANNUAL BRAIN “AWARENESS WEEK” AND “BRAIN HELMET GIVEAWAY” \| n m ...
		The National Museum of Health and Medicine has received nearly 200 lantern slides from the family of a World War I era U.S. Army dentist who gathered them while serving in France and in the United States.
		Archibald Louis Miller, a graduate of George Washington College who joined the Army as a lieutenant in May 1917, was promoted to major in early 1918 and sent to Base Hospital No. 6 in France.
		After about a year he was given orders to return to the United States for duty and was told by his commanding officer, “It affords me great pleasure to announce that your services have been excellent throughout.
	nmhm.washingtondc.museum /news/WWI_era.html (549 words)

	Civil War and Reconstruction
		Compromise of 1850 California would enter as a free state, slave trade ended in D.C., tough Fugitive Slave Act to be enforced
		Abraham Lincoln - president of the United States
		Reconstruction - twelve-part account of Reconstruction from the Southern point of view.
	www.mrburnett.net /civilwar.html (632 words)

	Find in a Library: Belle : a reconstruction of the Reconstruction era of the United States, 1865-1870
		Belle : a reconstruction of the Reconstruction era of the United States, 1865-1870
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