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Prompt: In the absence of constitutional guidelines, the president and Congress struggled over how best to reconstruct the Union. The fight was colored by a debate over how far the federal government should go to secure equality and civil rights for the four million African-Americans freed by the war.
Using the documents and your knowledge of history, analyze the ways in which political and social developments between 1860 and 1877 resulted in a revolution.
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Running head: THE CIVIL WAR
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The Civil War
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THE CIVIL WAR
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The Civil War
Introduction
Wars between communities and dynasties characterize the history of the United States. However,
the greatest of them all that is still fresh in this history is the great revolution that took place
between 1860 and 1877. There were the social and political reasons that are associated with the
eruption of the war. This paper is going to look at some of the different social and political
developments during that time and how they resulted in a revolution.
Political developments
The election of Lincoln as the president resulted in the southerners thinking that their rights to
own slaves could be taken away. The president was seen to be a strong opponent ...