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    Throughout American history, many have worked to make constitutional and social equality for all Americans, slave and free, black and white. Between 1860 and 1877, America had gone through civil war and reconstruction, from destructive to constructive. Hence, there had been many factors that attributed to constitutional and social developments in America history, but the main reasons for the change could attribute to the economic rivalry between the industrial North and the agricultural

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    DBQ: Social and Constitutional Development in America (1860-1877) During the post-civil war era, America, specifically the south, was undergoing a period of reconstruction. The general goal of reconstruction was to successfully readmit the former Confederacy back into the Union as smoothly as possible, as well as enacting specific safeguards of freedmen’s liberties. The social and constitutional developments in America between 1860 and 1877 were very minor. The lack of change between pre and

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    During the period between 1860 and 1877, many major changes occurred in America. There were many constitutional developments in this time period, which include the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War, and newly added Amendments. There were also many social developments included the Ku Klux Klan and voting of black people. Some of these developments were a revolution, which is a forcible overthrow of the government or social order in favor of a new system, and some were not. The constitutional

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    The Election of 1860 There was a lot of people running, but not a lot of them were good.Lincoln was pretty much the only good presidential nominee running. He was one of if not the only one who didn't really have an opinion on slavery. Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas are the presidential candidates for the 1860 presidential election. John C. Breckinridge, was part of the Southern Democratic Party.John C. Breckinridge, was one of the runners. John C. Breckinridge

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    At the beginning of the 1860s, the national Democratic party split in half. It had split into the Northern Democrats and the Southern Democrats. They split because of the issue of slavery, which was very alive at the time. As well, the Dred Scott case played an important role in the split of the party. The Northern Democrats didn’t want slavery to expand into the new territory. On the other end, Southern Democrats called for the preservation of slavery within their states and the expansion into the

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    During the period between 1860 and 1877, many major changes occurred in America. There were many constitutional developments in this time period, which include the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War, and newly added Amendments. There were also many social developments included the Ku Klux Klan and voting of black people. Some of these developments were a revolution, which is a forcible overthrow of the government or social order in favor of a new system, and some were not. The constitutional

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    many parallels to it brought it awfully close. Through questioning of the central and state government power levels, heavy constitutional observation and interpretation, and morality based decision making, it is fair to call the period between 1860 and 1877 nothing short of revolutionary. The Revolutionary War was as its title states; revolutionary. The people of the colonies were disconsolate with the power that Great Britain was exhibiting over them. Similarly, the South was unhappy with the central

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    “The clothes make the man”(Twain Alexander Atkins).The clothes showed how rich they were and who they were. Victorian clothing from rich to poor displayed how clothing was important to society. Victorian clothing for the rich boys.During the last decade of the nineteenth century young Victorian boys continued to wear variations of the sailor suit, a favorite Victorian boy's clothing since the 1870s (Haug). They would wear a dress to so they could change easier. Once they got older they wore a boyish

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    The subject I used was breakaway. In the very beginning you have a girl who breaks away from the line of chairs. As the video continues it appears the characters are fighting. Not fighting each other, but the world and life. To me this means the video is about breaking away from society and social norms. The protagonist is all of them. The reason I say that is throughout the video they move in sync with each other, it appears they are fighting together, and at the end it's almost as if you're celebrating

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    The Compromise of 1877 was a very effective time period in history. Its main focus was to rebuild the South physically and as a nation. It was the compromise of the Reconstruction Era and the U.S. presidential election of 1876. Problems now went from the battlefields to politics. After the Civil War over, 3.9 million slaves were freed and given rights. This then created tensions between black and whites. The presidential election was another conflict that was resolved. Democrats and Republicans had

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