Professor Voice Thread The Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow Eras

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Goldfield (2018) examines the pivotal though a misunderstood era of unfinished Revolution: Reconstruction and After 1865-1890. This was the Reconstruction era that was followed by the civil war, deemed as the initial effort that constructed an interracial democracy in American history. Reconstruction focused on issues that are deemed relevant today. The Reconstruction era defined who is an American citizen, rights, the relationship between economic and political freedom which upholds the primary responsibility to protect Americans' rights, the state or the federal government and how public responsibilities were expected to respond to terrorism episodes. During the reconstructive era rewriting of the constitution and laws took place to incorporate the principle of equality irrespective of race, failings and accomplishments of the Reconstruction government in the South, the consolidation of a white supremacy new system at the end of 19th century and reasons for Southerners’ violent oppositions for the northern retreat from Reconstruction .
On the other hand, the Civil War transformed the American nation destruction of the institution of slavery and the elimination of the threat of secession. The civil war enhanced a central understanding of the people and a nation, the boundaries of citizenship, the balance of power between the national and local authority and the meaning of equality and freedom. The struggle during the civil war finally liberated the four million emancipated slaves. The carte-de-visite depict William T.Carlton painting that captures a multitude of enslaved African Americans tagging along with a colored woman on the night of 31st Dec 1862 (Van Horn, 2017). A carte- de- viste was made by glueing a photograph or print on to a card of about three to four inches. The painting focus is linked with a white-haired man holding a pocket watch symbolizing the 1st minute of January 1st 1863, Emancipation Day. Collaboratively, William Lloyd Garison and diverse advocates for antislavery handed over the authentic painting to President Lincoln, as a gift of honor leading a successful antislavery movement. The scene symbolises the several watch meetings that Africans Americans held during the Eve of 1862. Notably, the end of slavery in the US occurred in December 1865 after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
The painting hanging in the president Abraham Lincoln office where he endorsed Emancipation Proclamation on 1st Jan 1963 today identified as Lincoln Bedroom in the Whitehouse was an African American art that voiced the slaves’ predicaments (Van Horn, 2017). The art-focused to end Confederate states institutional slavery. Though the Emancipation Proclamation failed to end slavery through ought the union, the civil war entire purpose was transformed. After Lincoln issuance on Emancipation Proclamation, the civil war took a new looks end slavery as opposed to preserving the union. Enslaved Africans Americans assembled on December 1862 and prayed for the proclamation of the institution which was to occur on 1st Jan 1863.
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