Week 3 Assignment 1

Week 3 Assignment 1

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Contemporary U.S. History

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January 21, 2013

Contents

Week 3 Assignment 1 1

NAME. 1

Contemporary U.S. History 1

Teacher name 1

January 21, 2013 1

Abstract 3

Week 8 Assignment 2 4

Major Historical Turning Points 4

What If? 4

Average Working American 5

Discrimination Laws 6

Works Cited 8

Abstract

This paper focuses on the Reconstruction through widespread industrialization in the Western United States during 1865 to 1900. Major historical turning points that occurred in America during that time will be discussed. We also talk about what would have happened if President Lincoln was never assassinated. The average American gets a look when we discuss industrialization and urbanization and how it affected them. Federal and state courts are under examination, so we can take a look at how non-white citizens were treated after the Civil War.

Week 8 Assignment 2

There were two major turning points during this period were the Reconstruction and Industrialization. The civil wars ended in 1865 and with the end of the civil war bought Reconstruction to the south from 1865 to 1877. The physical rebuilding of the southern region began quickly and progressed rapidly, but reconstructing southern society was much more difficult process, especially considering the political question about how to integrate rebel states back into the nations and the social question about how to integrate 4 million newly freed slaves. (Shultz 2012)   In 1863, Lincoln had issued his Ten-Percent Plan, which offered amnesty to any southerner who proclaimed loyalty to the union and support of emancipation of slaves. (Shultz, 2012) Lincoln was trying to drain the support to the confederacy and shorten the war by making the Ten-Percent look easy. 

Major Historical Turning Points

The completion of the railroads to the West following the Civil War opened up vast areas of the region to settlement and economic development....