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    Kristin Waters Crime Scene Reconstruction ENC 1102-154 Reconstructing a crime scene takes a lot of effort from experienced law enforcement, medical examiners, and criminalists. All of these professionals give unique perspectives to develop a crime-scene reconstruction. Forensic scientists also play a vital role in helping to reconstruct the crime scene. They use the crime-scene reconstruction to show events that occurred prior to, during, and after a crime was committed. (Saferstein, 2009)

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    Reconstruction what is it?What does it mean to reconstruct? Is it possible to reconstruct nowadays? Reconstruction started in 1865 and ended in 1877.Reconstruction took place mostly in the south. Reconstruction was created to help fix the problems in the new union after slavery, but sadly didn 't end well causing an all white government into power and failing the union. New economic,political and industrial growth was being made. New job opportunities were being made for the people and former black

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    were no longer to be considered property, but free individuals. Following the Civil War, The Reconstruction Era was led by President Andrew Johnson and spanned the time between 1865 and 1877. This period was an attempt to rejoin the Southern Confederates with the Union, as well as to haul blacks from a status of subjugation to become active participants in the American society. On a broad scale, Reconstruction helped blacks to gain freedom; they obtained citizenship and had a political role in society

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    The Reconstruction era was a very impactful, but hard time for South Carolina after the Civil War. The process of rebuilding the south came with many great challenges, including the profound main conflict of racial discrimination. Although the Union had won the war, much of the Southern United States had been destroyed, including the many farms, plantations and crops. Also, due to the Union victory more than 3 million slaves were granted freedom, but still faced racial discrimation from restrictive

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    Reconstruction Goals Reconstruction started in 1865 after the war was coming to an end and completed in 1877. It Is the process by which federal government controlled the former Confederate states and the conditions for their readmission to the union. Abraham Lincoln was our president at the time and could not form a treaty with the defeated government. After the emancipation, thousands of freedmen left their plantation to find a new life without being owned and forced to work. This began the

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    Reconstruction during the period between 1865-1877 represents a paradigm desired for the desired consolidation and expansion of power of the federal government and the fostering of an open urban market system based on free labor in the conquered south, but does not adequately represent the tumultuous period that followed the Civil War. Though these goals would prove arguably beneficial to the south and the healing Union, Reconstruction characterized the volition of the victorious republican party

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    Reconstruction: By: Siryet Girma 1,514 words 7 pages Historical Paper Reconstruction: the failure Reconstruction was a failure because African American were still not equal to White Americans. The Emancipation Proclamation was proclaimed in January 1, 1863. It freed more than 3 million slaves in the Confederate states by January 1, 1863, blacks enlisted in the Union Army in large numbers, reaching some 180,000 by war’s

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    ruins and America was on the road to Reconstruction. America was now faced with the challenges of overcoming Southern resentment, restoring the Union, and determining the meaning of black freedom. The process of reconstruction would be complicated and complex and would involve readmitting the Southern states that had seceded from the Union; physically reconstructing the South; and integrating the freedmen into America’s society. Various plans for Reconstruction were involved: Lincoln’s ten percent

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    The Reconstruction Era was known as a time to reconstruct the United States of America by the expansion of governmental power that began in 1865. “There were two central problems that animated Reconstruction; providing justice for freedmen and facilitating national reconciliation. (A New Birth of Freedom, pg. 1) After the 12 year span, reconstructing the nation succeeded in only a few of the goals that were set out to achieve within those 12 years that it was in progress. The Reconstruction’s intentions

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    The Reconstruction after the Civil war was a tedious process of making sure both sides rejoined the union and recovered from the war without issue. President Lincoln originally began the Reconstruction with the Emancipation Proclamation and the Ten-Percent plan. However, after Andrew Jackson took office, the blueprint was changed to include the “Black Code” and many other state legislatures to still make it difficult for the blacks to live peacefully. On September 22, 1862, President Lincoln

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