HIST 2057 Lecture : HIST2057NotesReconstruction
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2/15/2013 6:36:00 am: post civil war situation. What was civil war over: separation of the states-secession-states leaving the union, constitution has nothing about this matter, death rate- min 620,000. More than half was bc of disease: ultimate failure of american democracy-greatest tragedy, fought in the south-richmond, va & washington, dc (south, 4 years long, cost: bought all 4 mill slaves and built each a house- If you cant prove your employed, you get put in jail and fined. If couldn"t pay fine, you were hired out to white plantation owners to work off fine: all of this leaves northerners perplexed. D. ) johnson and the south"s reaction: anything johnson does, congress override, congress begins to control reconstruction, presidential reconstruction is null and void, we are going to start over, repubs in congress, radical repubs: When bill is due, they still have to pay interest though. they now are in debt extra expensive. End of reconstruction- when all republican governments fall (1877)
