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"What was real and fundamental was the idealism and the nobility of the two contending forces: the Yankees struggling to save the Union, dying to make men free; the Confederates fighting for great Constitutional principles, defending their homes form invasion." Thus begins Kenneth Stammp's book The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877, which wants to demonstrate the relationship between the war and the reconstruction period of the civil war are more similar rather than different. This 5 page discussion will examine his idea.
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of Reconstruction 1865-1877, which wants to demonstrate the relationship between the war and the reconstruction period of the civil war are more similar rather than different. This discussion will
examine his idea. BBpstcwar Problems and Achievements THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION 1865-1877: Kenneth Stammps (1967)
Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., June 2001 Introduction Reconstruction after the civil war was to restore damages that had occurred during the
war and to assist African Americans in adjusting to their new life of "freedom." Although we may initially think of this new adjustment in the areas of voting and citizenship,
African Americans were ill-equipped for many areas of their new life. These problems and their attempted solutions are addressed in Kenneth Stampps The Era of Reconstruction, which will serve
as the source for this discussion. Problem: Learning how to become a part of the culture. Definition: Although, according to Stampp, the blacks knew how "to make
a living as freemen," they still needed "economic opportunities, training in the management of their own affairs, and incentives for diligent toil "(120). Stamp continues "only a small minority
of Negroes were literate." Slavery had given few opportunities to develop initiative or to think independently. A writer for Harpers Weekly, claimed "the freedmen were but slaves of yesterday,
with all the shiftless habits of slavery to be unlearned ... they come broken in spirit with the long habit of servility" (121). Solution: One suggested solution made to
Congress was to give the Negro land: the "Negro question solves itself...with land and the ballot" (128). The majority of members of Congress refused to consider this as a
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