Leslie Chihuahua United States History to 1877 11/13/2015 11:00-11:50 AM Missouri Compromise was an agreement from the House of Representatives to reach a median to keep slavery out of Missouri after all the tribulations it had caused before it became a state. Henry Clay, Speaker of the House made important decisions in order for Missouri to be admitted as a state that could impact American history. In 1819, slavery was a resourceful profit to slave owners and this sparked a sectional controversy

socioeconomic role in the coming generations of black America. Rutherford Hayes, running as the republican electorate won the candidacy for President. Unfortunately, the positions on president came at the cost of an agreement that is now called the Compromise of 1877. Freedom allowed blacks in the south to vote and federal troops we placed in southern states to insure that equality of minorities was enforced.

The KKK was responsible for countless lynchings and acts of terror on African Americans of the south. The chaos that followed may have supplied the Democratic Party with unjust appeal to voters simply through fear of distinguishment. With the 1877 election nearing, Congress instituted the Enforcement Acts in 1870 that lasted until 1871 when they were no longer viewed as a necessity. The Enforcement Acts (or KKK Acts, as they were commonly viewed) fought the terror of the Ku Klux Klan with the

The Reconstruction Era lasted from 1865-1877, this was during the time period in which the United States was trying to rebuild after the Civil War and address the issue of slavery. This was supposed to give African Americans citizenship and voting rights but it didn’t go exactly according to plan. W.E.B. DuBois had an interesting perspective on Reconstruction since he lived through that era and witnessed effects of it. Success but also failures came out of this era and it all depends on what stance

Reconstruction was a period from 1865-1877 in which the United States government put into effect a program that would repair the damages in the South caused by the Civil War, return the eleven Confederate states to the Union, and grant rights to African Americans? Reconstruction in America came shortly after the end of the Civil war. It lasted twelve years, starting under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln and ending under Rutherford B. Hayes leadership, due to the Compromise of 1877. Over the twelve year period

rights in the southern states forcibly. These events led to the 15th amendment which granted voting rights to African American men. Freedmen then began to participate and hold offices in Reconstruction policies. During the Grant Admiration in 1869-1877 however, reconstruction was abandoned, and southern whites took over the congress majority. Discrimination began to grow especial in the south and groups like the Ku Klux Klan began to form and push African American out of any position of power or

Movement for Improvement Origins of Slavery in the United States In 1619, the first slaves arrived in America. These African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, an English colony, which had been established just 12 years earlier. The desire for labor led to centuries of slavery in the United States, continuing to the 1860s. The fact that “some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million slaves were imported to the New World during the 18th century alone” shows the extreme dependence on

In the 1870s fights broke out, people were murdered, and the country was in chaos. It left us wondering who's to blame for the end of Reconstruction? After the Civil war slaves became freedmen but they didn’t have rights. An era called Reconstruction by historians began. Some people supported it. Carpetbaggers were northerners that went South to help Reconstruction efforts and freedmen. The Scalawags were Southern whites who supported Reconstruction. Radical Republicans were congressmen that supported