HIST 351- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 73 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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After civil war and the end of slavery, reconstruction conferred immense power to the federal government. Lincoln himself evolved on the race issue and came around to ending slavery entirely and changing the very idea of citizenship. New constitutional amendments meant to codify at least some equality. As resistance grew to black citizenship, the 14th amendment was passed and forced. One of the most important amendments in defining citizenship. All persons born in the us or naturalized were citizens entitled to rights. Intended for free slaves but built a precedent of equal treatment. Reforms paved the way for growing black power until the 1890s when southern redeemers took away rights from blacks. States pass laws and rewrite their constitutions to get around these amendments. Literacy tests, poll taxes, which were all upheld. Natives were conquested in the plains and sw. Reformed through things like the dawes act and boarding schools.
