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| When did Reconstruction start? |
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| the middle of the civil war |
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| when did reconstruction end? |
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| what years did reconstruction go on? |
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| process where by the defeated southern states could be readmitted to the U.S. |
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| two big parties at the end of the civil war? |
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| describe the republican party of that time |
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- main party at that time
- antislavery
- pro big business
- pro high tariffs
- distributed public land to private parties
- federalists
- congenial |
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| describe the democratic party of that time |
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- rural people
- cultural minded
- influential
- pro capitalists
- agricultural/industrial interests usually
- anti high tariffs
- states rights over federal
- pro slavery if it was wanted |
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| What was Lincoln's aim for Reconstruction? |
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| bring the defeated and occupied former rebel states back into the union as soon and rapidly as possible; |
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| Was Lincoln's view of reconstruction shared by everyone? |
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| What did lincoln's reconstruction plan constitute? |
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| slavery abolished, renounce war debt, 10% of white men had to swear allegiance to U.S. |
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| was lincoln's reconstruction plan easy or difficult? |
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| Why did lincoln's own republican party reject his program? |
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| because they fears the southern states would join the democratic party and restart the war |
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