Essays on Reconstruction

Jourdan Anderson’s letter to his former master, Colonel Anderson, expresses how Jourdans feels about the freedom and opportunities he gained after being emancipated. Jourdan informs his former master that he had a job that paid him a salary of twenty five dollars per month, had provisions of food and clothing, and was able to afford…

In terms of reconstruction under war conditions, policymakers, specialists, academic researchers, and aid organizations have concluded that peace-building is a multidimensional complex process that will not initiate until minimum conditions of peace are present (Knight, 2003). Peace-building research has been centered on discovering processes to stabilize the conflict and restrict violence at a national sustained…

In 1877, the reconstruction the United States admitted change to our constitution the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and pledged their loyalty to the a truly United States government. Reconstruction also settled the states’ rights vs. federalism debate that split this union. However, Reconstruction failed by most other measures: Radical Republican legislation ultimately failed under…

When Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States of America, his Republican views of anti-slavery quickly created a divide between the Northern and Southern states as while the North opposed slavery, the South heavily relied on its practice for daily life and financial stability. Following the end of the Civil…

After successfully defeating the Confederate, and the Union took the victory, Lincoln began discussing his reconstruction plan. Lincoln being assassinated put an end to his plan for reconstruction. That leads to the curiosity of what would have happened if Lincoln had survived to serve his second term and he began his journey towards reconstruction. One…

The Era of Reconstruction refers to the turbulent period starting 12 years after the Civil War in the 1860s, shifting American culture, economy, and politics. But, with white supremacy and terrorist organizations ruling the south, former slaves were prevented from integrating fully into American society. The political cartoon, “The Union as It Was,” was published…

The United States older generations work every day to have a finer appreciation for diversity. From the Holocaust to 9/11’s tragedies, the US has seen its great deal of failure in understanding how a community thrives off being different. Though in developing European countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, diversity only sparked arguments for citizens like Muslim,…

One of the most controversial topics in U.S. history is slavery. Essentially since the establishment of the colonies slavery was a common practice, especially among those tasked with the labor-intensive job of growing and harvesting crops during colonial America. In the years between the colonies being established and the Civil War, enslaving people of a…

The tweed ring was a tiny group of men put together by William M. Tweed who composed New York City’s finances. Tweed was condemned of stealing up to 200 million dollars. With the rate of inflation that would be up to 8 billion dollars today. In 1873, Tweed was sentenced to twelve years in prison…

“Like writing history with lightning” a quote from President Woodrow Wilson after watching the movie The Birth of a Nation. After an extremely optimistic attempt to repair a fragmented nation, not even the President of the United states is able to refute the atrocities of the malignant plague at the time called racism and endorsed…