RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Robert E. Lee
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Frederick Douglass
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Booker T. Washington
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Abraham Lincoln
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Detailed explanation-1: -What four things did Ulysses Grant do during Reconstruction? Urged Southerners to reconcile and rejoin the United States. Served as president of Washington College (Washington & Lee University today).
Detailed explanation-2: -Following Abraham Lincoln’s death, President Andrew Johnson based his reconstruction plan on Lincoln’s earlier measure. Johnson’s plan also called for loyalty from ten percent of the men who had voted in the 1860 election.
Detailed explanation-3: -At Appomattox, General Ulysses S. Grant gave Lee’s army very generous terms, allowing them to be paroled and sent home if they promised not to take up arms against the United States again. These generous terms were in the spirit of President Abraham Lincoln’s wish to let the South up easy.
Detailed explanation-4: -1862 On June 1 Lee is given command of the Army of Northern Virginia, the main Confederate army in the eastern theater of the war.