RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Davis considered enslaved people to have the right to property, while Lincoln didnot.
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Davis considered property rights to be more important than individual liberties, while Lincoln did not.
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Davis considered all states to have equal rights, while Lincoln did not consider therights of states a dividing issue between the North and South.
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Davis considered states to have the right to freedom from oppressivegovernment, while Lincoln believed individuals should be free from governmentoppression.
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Detailed explanation-1: -So “four score and seven years” translates to 87 years. This speech was delivered in 1863; 87 years earlier was 1776, the year that the signing of the Declaration of Independence officially declared U.S. independence and “brought forth on this continent a new nation."
Detailed explanation-2: -Gettysburg Address On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Honoring a request to offer a few remarks, Lincoln memorialized the Union dead and highlighted the redemptive power of their sacrifice.
Detailed explanation-3: -Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.