Are Blacks Really Free?

Reconstruction was the time period following the Civil War, which lasted from 1865 to 1877, in which the United States began to rebuild. The term can also refer to the process the federal government used to readmit the defeated Confederate states to the Union. While all aspects of Reconstruction were not successful, the main goal of the time period was carried out, making Reconstruction over all successful. During this time, the Confederate states were readmitted to the Union, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments were ratified, and African Americans were freed from slavery and able to start new lives.

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 Reconstruction Era lasted up to 1877 from the time just after the Civil War. The Reconstruction failed to bring about social and economic equality to the former slaves due to the southern whites’ resentful and bitter outlook on the matter, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Jim Crow laws.

Reconstruction was a time period of major change in the United States of America for both African Americans and White citizens. After the Civil War, the reconstruction process started out as a failure, but over the years turned into a huge success because of how African Americans were able to live normal lives. Overall, Reconstruction was a success because freedom and growth of equality for African Americans was increased greatly.

Just imagine that you were born when slavery was allowed in the United States. Better yet, imagine yourself as an African American/ black and being born into slavery. What would you do? Would you try to escape to freedom or remain a slave and serve “your master” until you die or until slavery is totally abolished? Well that’s when the Reconstruction Era comes in. The Civil War was a major cause that led to the Reconstruction Era. This was due to the Union winning the war between them and the South. The end of this war was thought to give freedom, peace, and stop the suffering of slaves all over the country, but the South didn’t want to let go of slavery that easily. Reconstruction was when the South was rebuilding and also when the country

The Civil War is known most commonly as the war that freed the slaves, but when the war ended and all was said and done, were the slaves really all that free? The war sent the United States into ‘Reconstruction’, a period of around eleven years where the war’s aftershock, the new laws on slavery, and the backlash that came with these laws was dealt with. After the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were passed and slavery was officially illegalized, things took a pretty big change of course. The previous slave-owners were at a loss for what to do, and in a way so were the newly freed African Americans. Both parties had grown to rely on each other in order to support themselves and survive, and that relationship would continue to

The Reconstruction Era can be distinguished from other eras by looking at the relationships between the northern and the southern regions, along with the rights of African Americans. Having won the Civil War, the northern part of the country (anti-slavery) pushed for more rights and freedoms for those freed from slavery.

During the reconstruction ex-slaves were trying to find their true definition of freedom. After spending hundreds of years in slavery, African Americans had become more dependent on their slave owners after the signing of the emancipation proclamation that freed slaves in the south on January 1st 1863. After the freeing slaves didn't know what to really do with themselves having all the family they've ever had on the plantation and No land to raise their families on so, the slave owners offered them their homes on the plantation and maybe a few pennies a day earned for the task that was previously assigned to them during slavery, but this isn't freedom. After the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 all slaves in the South were supposed to be

The reconstruction era was a difficult time for the African American slaves from 1865 to 1877 because the slaves were freed and there were no jobs for them, had very little or no education, and had very limited opportunity in the south. Reconstruction was one of the most critical periods in American History. The Civil War changed the nation tremendously, and most importantly by bringing an end to slavery. Reconstruction was a period of great promise, hope, and progress for African Americans, and a period of resentment and resistance for many white

The Reconstruction era was put into effect by Congress in 1866 and lasted until 1877. Reconstruction was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War. The reconstruction plan granted the means for readmitting the southern states into the Union, and tried to come up with the methods by which whites and blacks could live together in a non-slave society. America's position as a country was established on principles of freedom but those beliefs were weakened by slavery. At the end of the Civil War, many blacks felt that they were entitled to start collecting the benefits that had been denied for so many years. Being able to vote, own land and have a voice in political affairs were all goals that they believed were reachable.

Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era began. During this time, the southern part of the United States attempted a transformation directed by Congress from 1863 to 1877. Known for its successes and failures, the Reconstruction was a time of great pain and an infinite amount of questions. As well as many long term, short term, positive, negative, social, and political effects.

The first reason they were not free during reconstruction was racism which is still a big problem today but was way worse back then. Picture yourself walking down a trail and then a group of people come up to you saying they are going to kill you and take all of your stuff why? Because you don't look like them. And this was all real in (Doc C) it states “I met four white men about six miles south of Keachie, De Soto Parish. One of them asked me who I belonged to. I told them no one. So he and two others struck me with a stick and told me they were going to kill me and every other Negro that told them that they belonged to no one”. Luckily one of his friends and stopped them from killing him but that wasn't the case for many. And if they were really free would they belong to anyone? Crazy right? Well, this isn't the end of it blacks still have to refer to whites as masters and they were referred to as servants. This shows me that whites still had the idea of slavery in there head by making them call whites masters and even worse they still beat blacks and in instances killing them from this. Yes, beatings, if whites got mad at them or blacks, did something rebellious as simple as calling you sir instead of master you could be

The reconstruction era and Jim Crow refers to the time following the end of the Civil War. The purpose of this period was to rebuild the southern states, making it more comfortable for the newly freed slaves to be members of society. At least

Reconstruction was a time where the south had the opportunity to rebuild after the civil war. Most of the southern states of the united states was destroyed during the civil war. The union victory of the civil war may have given about 4 million slaves their freedom, but while the process of the south rebuilding of reconstruction began, it introduced new significant challenges and effects. The Reconstruction era was from January 1, 1863 to March 31, 1877(about 14 years and a half).

The Reconstruction era was a period of time that lasted for fourteen years. Reconstruction began in 1863, just after America had finish fighting the Civil War. The Civil War settled the constitutional crisis that were provoked by the secessions of the Confederacy as well as giving freedom to millions of slaves, more than four million to be exact, upsetting many white southerners. This freedom was obtain by the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery. In other words ended slavery. This impacted many African Americans mainly for the reason being that most had no idea on how to make a living on their own. At the time President Lincoln and Congress helped African Americans by providing them with food, clothing and leasing them land so they can have somewhere to make a living. In addition, Lincoln had more plans for Reconstruction. One of his plan consisted on bringing the seceded states back into the Union. However, before his plans were tested Lincoln was assassinated while attending a theater. Continuing with what Lincoln had left as