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Category: US History
Date Submitted: 02/15/2012 11:56 AM
Running Head: Week 1
* Some historians argue that Radical Reconstruction was not radical enough. After studying the events of the late 19th century, defend whether or not you agree with this position. What are the long-term implications?
After studying the evens of the late 19th century I would have to agree with the historians that state the radical reconstruction was not radical enough. I think that the intention of these changes were to change the general cultural belief system in the south and make the region more like the north. Unfortunately with the constant changes and fighting between the different branches of the federal government did not allow for the reconstruction to be as radical or successful as the radicals wanted. To make a real impact the government should have enforces the new amendments and laws with as much force as they did in the civil war itself.
The long term implications of the truly radical approach to the south would have gone two ways. The first being a second uprising of a civil war causing the United States to be permanently separated into two different countries. This would have happened due to the Ideological differences between the north and the south and the taking away of the basic freedoms of the citizen in the south provided by the US Constitution. The second thing would have been a Socialist type of situation where eventually the entire country would have been under military law and all industries would have been government run. History would have changed completely and who knows if there socialism or communism would have been the main point of the American Society.
* How did the culture of the Plains Indians, specifically the Lakota Sioux, change in the late 19th century?
The original homelands of the Lakota were in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, though they wandered far and wide. At one point they had a strong presence in Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, Illinois and Canada....