RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Confederates were outnumbered by Northerners.
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Confederates demanded the freedom to enslave others.
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Confederates believed that states had the right to leave the Union.
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Confederates felt that slaves were better treated than Northern factory workers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -(What were the rights and liberties for which Confederates contended? The right to own slaves: the liberty to take this property into the territories: freedom from the coercive powers of a centralized government. What contradiction does the Civil War historian find in the secession of Southern states?
Detailed explanation-2: -What were the rights and liberties from which Confederates contended? The right to own slaves; the liberty to take this property into the territories; freedom from the coercive power of a centralized government.
Detailed explanation-3: -What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.
Detailed explanation-4: -For more than 80 years, people in the Northern and Southern states had been debating the issues that ultimately led to war: economic policies and practices, cultural values, the extent and reach of the Federal government, and, most importantly, the role of slavery within American society.
Detailed explanation-5: -The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861. The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery.