ASAP U.S. History by Princeton Review

Author:Princeton Review
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

Andrew Johnson Timeline

Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

• Restoration of the Union

• Opportunities for former slaves in education and housing

• Economic rebuilding

• Black men and non-landowning men granted new voting rights

• Many previously appointed positions now elected positions

• Development of public schools and orphanages in the South

• Government-funded industrial and rail projects

• Economic disparities still prevalent

• Southern governments still tried to limit voting rights

• Bitterness between Americans in Northern and Southern states

• High tax rates

• Southern hostility toward white Southerners who cooperated (“scalawags”), often for personal gain, and Northerners who ran Reconstruction programs (“carpetbaggers”) and often took advantage of conditions in the destabilized South

• Widespread corruption nationwide

• Lingering racism and intimidation against blacks

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