RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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John Brown’s raid + Missouri Compromise
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Compromise of 1850 + Dred Scott decision
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Kansas-Nebraska Act + Admission of California to statehood
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“Bleeding Kansas” + Admission of Maine and Missouri to statehood
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion.
Detailed explanation-2: -Scott called for a strong defense of Washington, D.C., a blockade of the Confederacy’s Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and a massive land and naval attack along the Mississippi River aimed at cutting the Confederacy in two.
Detailed explanation-3: -Southerners generally wanted to maintain and even expand the institution. Thus, slavery became the focal point of a political crisis. Following the 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, eleven southern states eventually seceded from the Federal Union in 1861.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the Civil War, Union forces established a blockade of Confederate ports designed to prevent the export of cotton and the smuggling of war materiel into the Confederacy.