Advantages Of Reconstruction Sharecropping

So, where did Reconstruction fail? Rather than a single event, the downfall of reconstruction was caused by a series of poor policies and decisions. The first attempt at Reconstruction was driven by the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln believed that it was his responsibility, and his responsibility alone, to lead the reunification of the United States. In order to understand his plans, one must understand his motivations as well. Many believe that Lincoln fought the Civil War to end slavery and start the movement for racial equality, but Lincoln, being a moderate republican, mainly fought the Civil War in order to maintain a stable economy and protect the union. The Republican party was founded on the idea of good business and maintaining a stable economy, therefore all of their interests rooted back to improving business situations in order to gain wealth and prosper. In an interview with the New York Tribune, Lincoln is quoted saying “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery” (“Lincoln’s Constitutional Dilemma”). Later on, Lincoln shifted his viewpoint when he realized, or he was forced to realize, that the United States needed to abolish slavery in order to protect the Union. This realization came only after “almost daily visits from Radical Republicans or humanitarian groups demanding abolition” (“Lincoln’s Constitutional Dilemma”). Since Lincoln’s main motivation was

Reconstruction is the period of rebuilding the south that succeeded the Civil War (1861-1865). This period of time is set by the question now what? The Union won the war and most of the south was destroyed. Devastation, buildings turned into crumbles and lost crops. The South was drowning in poverty. To worsen the situation there were thousands of ex-slaves that were set free by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13 Amendment. "All these ex-slaves", Dr. Susan Walens commented, "and no place to put them," The ex-slaves weren't just homeless but they had no rights, unlike white man. The government and congress had to solve the issues present in the south and the whole nation

The original purpose of Reconstruction was to restore the buildings and the economy of the south the best they could, but without the immoral element of slavery. But, reconstruction under the Johnson Presidency was a failure for a few reasons: 1) Convict Leasing, 2) Sharecropping, 3) the Ku Klux Klan, 4) Segregation in schools, even in the North, 5) Carpetbaggers/Scalawags, 6) misleading statistics, and 7) racism.

I feel that the Reconstruction failed to give African Americans equal rights. They were not able to vote in any public event and without that ability they had no voice to attain what they desired. Additionally, the Reconstruction lacked a clear structure to help African Americans develop any means to earn a living on their own. Many turned to sharecropping as a means to survive, which gain them no true independence. The African American had to continue to rely on the white southerners or large groups of one another to earn a living and it some cases just survive. The Reconstruction failed to provide a steady direction for African Americans and it did not protect them from abuse the white southerners could enact similar to slavery. For these

In hindsight it is sometimes claimed that Reconstruction was a failure. Although there was some good that came out of the Reconstruction it was mostly just a relentless uphill battle against Southerners and immoral politicians that were here to delay change and keep racism alive. Reconstruction brought the Ku Klux Klan who displayed great resistance, and poverty that swept the South once the blacks were freed. The freedom of these black slaves led to discriminatory legislatures such as the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws to keep the blacks constrained from actually being free. The South was then encountered with corruption and high property taxes, as a rebuild was in order to reestablish the war torn part of the nation.

Although there was successions of the Reconstruction, there was failures that happened through it. For example, the Black Codes. The Black Codes basically shortened African American civil rights. This code gave cruel punishments on African Americans that passed their labor contracts. As a result, a slave would would be working for less then the average wages. Also, the Black Codes prevented African Americans from owning property, marrying, and from suing in court. Another failure through the Reconstruction was the Share cropping system. This system was intended to give credit to many people effected by the Civil War by making them work with cotton from the planting process to through its sale. In the end, the merchants that gave them food and supplies received money from its final sale. Unfortunately at times there was not enough money making the workers start the next year in debt causing an end less cycle.

Almost everything that the North tried to accomplish with Reconstruction failed. The blacks were freed from slavery, but they did not receive equal rights in any sense. The Republicans tried to prevent the reestablishment of the Democratic Party in the South and once again failed. Reconstruction was marked by much corruption and unstable government and did not actually accomplish much.

After four years of gruesome fighting, the Civil War ended, leaving the South, confederate territory, in ruins and defeat. The North’s advantage over the South was industrialization and this led to their victory over the South. In order to move on from the war reconstruction is essential. However, this became a major controversy on how much power the South should have and the creation of methods to enforce the new laws with the abolishment of slavery. The North struggles with strategies to improve the South without restarting the Civil War. Also there was difficulty incorporating the former slaves into everyday society without confederate backlash. The failure of the reconstruction was because of the actions that were took by the presidents between 1865 and 1877. Republican President Ulysses S. Grant influenced the failure of

John Hancock, a former slave, told his story about jobs after he was freed and he said that it was basically the same as it was before the Civil War (Doc C) The reason why this was a failure was because slaves grew up on the farms, and with that being most of their only skills, would stay working for their former owners. Secondly, in order to use “places of public amusement” like theatres, theme parks, and restaurants, you have to pay money to support these businesses, which these newly freed citizens didn’t have. Another reason as to why the economic portion of Reconstruction failed was because of this lack of money awareness. These freed slaves would just agree to stay where they were already working because they didn’t know what money was or it’s importance. Economically, Reconstruction failed because of the lack of

There are good points supporting that the reconstruction was a success and a failure ad both sides are arguable. The point of the reconstruction was to bring the United States back together and in this the reconstruction was a success. In general, slavery died with the Civil War. There were three Constitutional amendments put in place in the years following the war to protect African American rights. The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery in all states and territories. The fourteenth

Reconstruction was a period of time in the United States that made history immediately towards the Ccivil Wwar. A lack of political focus on the effort failed to solve the sectional wounds and elimination of the freed slaves’ newly gained civil liberties failed to bring about long-term racial integration. In order for the slaves to have gotten social and economic equality, the North would have had to have focused strongly on pushing for black equality. In other words it was a social failure because it spawned segregation in the south that we still have today. It failed economically because Reconstruction sent the former slaves back into the fields to the sharecroppers, which drove them into debt and made them become slaves again. I believe the Reconstruction was a failure because of politically, socially, and economic reasons.

Reconstruction had failed in its tasks to properly enforce rights for blacks as promised after the Civil War. If more laws were passed to control the actions of the South in order to unite the blacks and whites, then Reconstruction could have had actually been successful in reconstructing the nation. If a tax break system in mid 1865, a Sharecropping Act of 1866, and a Diversity Law in 1880 were implemented in the South, such laws and changes could have guided Reconstruction to success.

Even thought it had a lot of fails the reconstruction did do somethings that caused it to have a small success. The reconstruction caused the passing of three amendments. One was the 13th amendment which caused the ended to slavery. The next is the 14th amendment.This amendment granted citizenship to people once enslaved.The last one was 15th and it given the right to vote to all men. This also caused the creation of the first american welfare agency called the freemen's bureau. The bureau gave food and clothing to former slaves. And tried to tech them to read write and do

Reconstruction brought forth good leaders and laws but ultimately failed at its goal during its time period. If certain parts of reconstruction are looked at, some good did come out of it. Some were the rejoining of black families, the Amendments, and inspiring political leaders. Much of the reconstruction was spent with blacks rebuilding up their families and finding what unity they could. With the addition of the 14th and 15th Amendments, more freedoms was offered to all men regardless of race. Many Radical Republican leaders helped make many of the changes. We can look to many now for inspiration. One was Thaddeus Stevens who wanted to take power away from planters and give rights back to the slaves. Unfortunately, all of these points aren’t

One of the biggest ways the reconstruction efforts failed was with giving equal rights to the black community. Although the slaves were freed it was very conditional freedom. The creation of Black codes made it seem like they were free. These codes made it possible for black families to remain intact. It also gave blacks the right to sue in court, and own property. This seems like progressive thinking at the time. The big problem with these codes is what they denied blacks. Blacks could not testify against whites. They could not own guns, or travel without permits. Although slavery had ended blacks were still being controlled. Without slaves to work in the fields the plantation owners needed workers. A lot of them would rent out their land to newly freed blacks. In exchange these poor blacks would have to give up 2/3 of their crop.3 The rest would be used to pay off their debts. This would