How did slaves vote under the 3/5 Act before the American Civil War?
There was no “3/5 Act.” The so-called “Three-Fifths Compromise” was a clause in the U.S. Constitution, not a law passed by Congress.The compromise was drawn up during the drafting of the Constitution, because representation in the House of Representatives is based on population. The northern states, where slavery was already abolished or being phased out (New Jersey was the last Northern state to do so, in 1804), didn’t think that slaves should count at all for purposes of representation in the House. However, they did want to count the slaves as people for the purposes of taxation; in those days, each state’s tax burden was based on its population.The South naturally took the opposite tack. It wanted to count the slaves as people for the purpose of representation in the House, but argued that since they were property and were already taxed as such, they shouldn’t be used to count toward the tax burden of the southern states.After lengthy debate, the two sides agreed that slaves would count at three-fifths for both representation in the House and for taxation; 1,000 slaves would be counted as 600 people.Beyond the matter of representation in the House, where the South had more representation (and paid more taxes) than its free population suggested it should, this had no effect on voting. Slaves were not allowed to vote at all. In most states, free blacks couldn’t vote, either.
What was the status of slaves after the Civil War?
Complicated.In the Confederacy, the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 formally freed the slaves. Enforcement, of course, was limited to those regions which fell under Union control, but any slave who managed to get to Union-occupied territory could regard himself as free. On the other hand, former slaves still had a second-class status. The proclamation did not grant the freedmen citizenship. They could not vote and did not have many other protections which US citizens enjoyed. There were also several states in the Union where the proclamation did not apply and slavery remained legal. IIRC, slavery remained legal in Delaware until the 13th Amendment formally abolished it through the entire country.With the passage of the amendments of the Reconstruction period, the status of ex-slaves was formally raised to that of citizens. They could vote and otherwise participate in public life. Sadly, this was of limited effectiveness. States began passing laws restricting the rights of their black residents. There had been laws limiting the freedoms of free blacks before the Civil War, but the era of Jim Crow took it to another level.
Was the American Civil War fought over industrialization or slavery?
Was the American Civil War fought over industrialization or slavery?Like with most conflicts, addressing the causes of the Civil War is complicated. One can easily imagine a question in a university-level history course: List five causes of the Civil War and address the strengths and weaknesses of each cause.Political leaders in the South made it very clear, through writings and speeches, that their main objective was to preserve slavery. Following the Civil War, the so-called “Lost Cause” defense re-cast the objectives to preserving a genteel way of life, and this ideology is very well captured in the first half hour of the film Gone With The Wind. (And in fact, GWTW — book and film — is a sort of propaganda piece for Lost Cause ideology.)As an economist, I would certainly argue myself about the conflict between the industrialized North and agricultural South, and the tensions between the underlying economic aims. The Republican Party was both the party of abolition and of industrialization. During the Lincoln Administration, the transcontinental railroad was funded, as was the established of new universities to promote “the applied arts and sciences.” (These are Land Grant Colleges, like MIT and Berkeley.)
Civil war project help!( slavery)?
1.was slavery are one of the cause of the civil war? 2.if then, how does slavery cause the civil war? 3.wat happend to slavery during the civil war? a. wat they do? b. do they serve the army c. which side are they in comferderate or union ? 4. wat slavery was like in the end of the civil war and after the civil war? a. how did they get their freedoom and when? 5. what are some bad and good things happend to them? 6.what are some famous african american or slave during the war and wat do they do? 8.what is the emancipation procalmation do to slavery? i need to write 3 page about it so please help me....... please post any website that have the answer for each question and please post the website if you find the asnwer with. thanks you very much!!! i appreciated p.s. should i do a poster or a powerpoint with it?
After the civil war, African Americans stayed in the south?
Travelling north took money, something most of the free blacks lacked, along with substantial property. They stayed in the South because that is what they were familiar with. Many worked as sharecroppers on the very same plantations on which they once served as slaves. Your conjectures on the reasons as to why many stayed in the South were correct. Lack of education was also a factor. The American blacks only began to migrate northward near the end of the 19th century and especially during the early years of the 20th century, when conditions in the South compelled many to move northward in search of better jobs.
What would American history be like if all slaves were brought back to Africa after the Civil War?
Our music would be considerable duller as Dixieland, Jazz, Blues, R&B, Rock n Roll, Disco, Soul, Rap and Hip Hop would never have been created. The economy of the South would have collapsed, becoming a largely abandoned wasteland reverting back to mostly timber and forest as there wouldn’t be enough sharecroppers to cultivate all the farmland. It would have had minimal impact on the North as most immigrants wanted factory work or to homestead in the upper midwest or west. The Democratic party would be a powerless regional player as in the House of Representatives there would be far fewer seats from the South due to the population loss, making it more likely the Progressive Movement would have coalesced into a true third party, likely eclipsing and surpassing the Democrats in the 1870s or 1880s. The post Civil War economic recovery would have been even more horrifically uneven with the North rebounding but the South moribund without so many people remaining to stimulate demand. Culturally the US would probably be more influenced by Europe rather than developing our own uniquely American culture, which was so very influenced by African Americans. Beyond that its hard to say what the outcome would be for the 20th Century. I’m not so certain the US would have grown into being a Great Power or have been so expansionist in the early 20th Century.
Question about the American Black Reconstruction period (post Civil War)?
Here is a passage from the Wikipedia article on Reconstruction that may help you to understand DuBois's quote. "The interpretation of Reconstruction has swung back and forth several times. Nearly all historians hold that Reconstruction ended in failure. It is hard to see Reconstruction "as concluding in anything but failure" says Etcheson (2009)[130] Etcheson adds, "W. E. B. DuBois captured that failure well when he wrote in Black Reconstruction in America (1935): 'The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.'" Likewise Eric Foner concludes that from the black point of view, "Reconstruction must be judged a failure."[131] The many factors contributing to this failure include: lack of a permanent federal agency specifically designed for the enforcement of civil rights; the Morrison R. Waite Supreme Court decisions that dismantled previous congressional civil rights legislation; and the economic reestablishment of conservative white planters in the South by 1877. Historian William McFeely explained that although the Constitutional amendments and civil rights legislation on their own merit were remarkable achievements no permanent government agency whose specific purpose was civil rights enforcement had been created.[132]" What he means is that most blacks expected the failure to be at the national level, where there would be nothing like the 14th amendment or the civil rights law passed in the 1870's, that all was "successful". The failure came when new loopholes were created which put many blacks right back into extreme poverty, sometimes worse then slavery. Many people fail to understand the significance of reconstruction to our nation's history, i'm glad to see questions about it.