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The Reconstruction Era and Freedom

2023-12-20 15:40:39

In the words of President Abraham Lincoln 's speech at Gettysburg (Document A), the civil war itself brought "a new birth" to our country. The civil war is over and the South is in trouble. The bodies of Allied soldiers had no life in their struggle for protection. The entire plantation once thrown to the south was only smoldering the ash. The conclusion of the civil war and abolition of slavery caused problems and dilemmas that the Americans have to deal with in hopes of finding the true meaning of freedom.

During the civil war and reconstruction, the transition from slavery to freedom enabled the black judicial freedom to acquire the black judicial freedom through the passage of revisions 13, 14, and 15. It was broken by slavery. Francis Smith Foster is the author of "I Writing: African-American Women's Literary Works" (1746-1892) composed of prominent black women. One of the special works of the reconstruction era was written by a famous abolitionist and poet Francis Allen Watkins Harper. Harper made a tour of the south during the rebuilding period and taught and talked about concerns about the black people in this new "free" era.

The main purpose of the reconstruction and reconstruction of the United States is to reunify the South with the alliance and to determine the status of free people in American society. The era of reconstruction is characterized by political conflict, not violent conflict. Several historical myths are that the southern part is a victim of reconstruction, and various reconstruction plans are corrupt and injustice. In fact, these plans are very generous to perform military rule in a very short time ... rebuilding is the period of time that followed the coalition government and military rule after the Civil War. Reconstruction is sometimes considered good as it helps newly released African-American and recently deprived Caucasian Southerners. But it also caused tension and indignation not only between the white and the black but also between the southern and the northern, and when the reconstruction was over, the whites returned.