HIST 2057 : HIST 2057 Test 1 Notes
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Hist 2057 june 10-june 14 (reconstruction, the west, the rise of big business) South, wanted to reunify country and transform south, work led to. Reconstruction acts military districts commanded by generals with power over civilian government, Us army got authority to register voters, including freedmen and whites who did not support rebellion, require new state constitutional conventions comprised of elected delegates to ensure black male suffrage, require ratification of the 14th. 8/7 republican but then house had to ultimately decide, nobody could agree, Compromise of 1877(wormly house bargain**): hays could win, but the army. Republicans would give south money for a transcontinental railroad with a southern route and levees, hays would name a southerner as post master. General, democrats would allow garfield to become speaker of the house (which collapsed after the wormly house bargain: outcomes of reconstruction: the election of 1876 marked the end, south rejoined. The era of reconstruction: [1865-1877] a period of political complexity and social.
